Tag Archives: Viacom

Deadline reports: CBS and Viacom have agreed to a price for their long-awaited merger and plan to formalize the deal with an announcement after the close of trading today, sources tell Deadline. The “exchange ratio” — how many shares of each company will be traded in the all-stock translation — had been a major consideration in negotiations over recent days. …

Just in via email: TV Land calls their new program “Impastor” an irreverend new comedy. Christians are calling it disgusting! “Impastor” is a show set to air July 15 at 10:30 p.m. ET/9:30 p.m. CT that includes a man stealing someone’s identity who happens to be a pastor. The main character, posing as a gay preacher, recently hired sight unseen …

Thirty major corporations have filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to hear AFER’s challenge of Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban. On the list: Amazon, CBS, Deutsche Bank, eBay, Intel, General Electric, Levi Strauss, Nike, Oracle, Pfizer, Staples, Target, and Viacom. In general, the brief argues that the nation’s uneven patchwork of marriage laws places an undue burden on corporations. …

“Number One: Dan Savage is a radical and raunchy homosexual activist who gives unhealthy and reckless sex advice. He aggressively works to undermine the historic ethic of marital fidelity by championing the twisted notion that married couples should allow outside sex — like so many ‘monogamish’ homosexual male couples do. Incredibly, Savage argues that this would lower the divorce rate. …

Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement is yielding some fascinating details. Even as Viacom was sending Google takedown notices for clips from their shows such as the Colbert Report and the Daily Show, their own marketing teams were posting clips from those very shows and many others. According to a trial claim by YouTube: For years, Viacom continuously …

In what is the largest corporate endorsement of the National Equality March to date, media giant Viacom announced today that Logo, their cable channel for LGBT folks, will “go dark” for four hours as the March takes place in Washington DC on October 11th. Viewers tuning in will see a graphic directing them the Logo-run website 365gay.com for news from …

If you subscribe to Time-Warner Cable, you and their 13 million other customers nationwide will lose all of your Viacom channels at midnight tonight as the two media giants continue to spar over a new carriage fees. Viacom wants to raise the charges for Time-Warner to carry their 19 channels, Time-Warner says they’re being greedy. Same old, same old. Among …

In a case that has privacy advocates outraged, a federal court has ordered Google to give Viacom the list of videos viewed by every YouTube visitor. Last year Viacom sued YouTube for over $1B, charging them with “massive intentional copyright infringement”. A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used …

LOGO apparently doesn’t see any homophobia in Blades Of Glory, as the cast of the movie will host an upcoming episode of the gay cable channel’s Click List video countdown show. Of course, that doesn’t have anything to do with LOGO and Paramount being sibling Viacom companies. Not at all.