CBS and Viacom to reunite in stock swap deal

Another mega-merger is in the works.
CBS and Viacom to Reunite in Victory for Shari Redstone

I predict by 2030 there will be exactly two entertainment companies controlling 95 percent of everything. Go ahead and prove me wrong...

dan c

 

More from the fallout of Les Moonves, right?

 

[DISNEY BOARD MEMBERS]Dammit! Now we have to buy it...[/DISNEY BOARD MEMBERS]

 

They are commonly owned for the most part, so this should have happened much sooner.

Star Trek fans should be happy, as Paramount (Viacom) controls the movies while CBS controls all TV shows, past and present. The other thing to watch for is whether this enables Paramount to share their content via the Movies Anywhere platform. At present I believe that they and Sony (including the James Bond series) are the only holdouts, meaning that purchased content is only viewable on the app (Vudu, iTunes, etc.) that the movie was registered through.

 

The Corporate Wars they talked about on Rollerball (1975) are starting!!!

 

I wonder if CBS will be back on Direct TV as they have been missing almost all summer.

 

So, now Steven Colbert can be 'Stephen Colbert'...?

 

Sumner Redstone handed a media empire to his daughter, Shari, who now controls its fate

 

I never met Redstone but I fixed his TV once. He had two 35mm projectors in his basement media room.

 

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Oof, the punches to the face of Wieden + Kennedy just keep on coming. Coca-Cola just dropped them, and they couldn't land with CBS either.

Coca-Cola makes a bad year worse for Wieden+Kennedy

 

I feel Viacom , Cbs stock will tank..
What does cbs have to offer even with streaming .
Which we have not seen already .?

 

They also own Paramount. But most of Viacom’s stuff is trash. If they would air old MTV from like the first 10 years or so with all the original videos, vj’s joke commercials/promos with all music rights intact and with Beavis And Butthead then they might have a little something. As for CBS they could do a deal with David Letterman although Peacock may still have them beat on that as NBC had his early years which may of had more funny things going on throughout the show. Neat for people who like nostalgia and new to anyone who missed it the first time or kids today who weren’t around then.

 

That’s why owning the Paramount vault and CBS vault is valuable to them. For Sumner content was king.