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Viacom
[Under
Development]
Viacom originated as a US cinema operator, moved into
cable television and film/television
production/distribution (Paramount), video rentals
(Blockbuster, now largely spun off), and the national CBS
television network.
studies
Ken Auletta's
disappointing collection of profiles in his The
Highwaymen - Warriors of the Information Superhighway
(New York, Random House 97) includes Sumner Redstone of
Viacom. Many readers will get more value from Michael J
Wolf's The Entertainment Economy (New York, Times
99).
Bruce Wasserstein's Big Deal (New York, Warner
98) is a useful introduction to the business of assembling
and disassembling the US media empires.
The two definitive studies of CBS in the sixties and
eighties are David Halberstam's classic The Powers That
Be (New York, Knopf 79) and Auletta's Three Blind
Mice: How The Television Networks Lost Their Way (New
York, Random House 91).
The 'Networks' profile points to
studies of William Paley and CBS, of which the best is
probably Lewis Paper's Empire: William S Paley
& The Making of CBS (New York, St Martins 87).
Holdings
The following page provides an
inventory of Viacom holdings.
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