Jason Shumaker, a communications executive who spent time at MTV, Viacom, Google and Verizon, has died at 55. Shumaker died ...
Van Toffler, who helped build MTV into a powerhouse during a nearly three-decade run at Viacom, is returning to play a large role with this year’s Video Music Awards. Toffler’s Gunpowder & Sky shingle ...
What made MTV culturally powerful, and what risks the network should take instead. And I’m lucky enough to have edited a lot of the current programming on Viacom over the last two decades on hit shows ...
Tom Freston has never been a typical media executive. He began with a countercultural spirit that shaped an adventurous career spanning from cofounding MTV to leading Viacom and Paramount Pictures.
Viacom profits zoomed higher last quarter on rollicking sales of music vidgame “Rock Band,” strong cable nets and slimmer losses at Paramount. CEO Philippe Dauman expects studio results to fire up as ...
For Viacom, the future of television has an increasingly online sheen. The media conglomerate is bringing a slew of content from its flagship cable networks to Viacom-owned Pluto TV — launching 14 ...
Founder, former Viacom CEO and Principal at Firefly3 Tom Freston joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss his book “Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu," and he also weighs in on today's ...