Facing a shrinking cable TV landscape and unable to compete with SVOD behemoths, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish charts a different course than Netflix, Disney and other deep-pocketed rivals with Pluto TV ...

Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) (NASDAQ: VIAB) recently announced that it would be acquiring streaming service Pluto TV. Viacom is plunking down $340 million in cash to get its hands on the entire operation ...

Viacom Inc., which owns such prominent cable channels as Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon, is plunging into the fast-growing world of streaming. On Tuesday, the cable television giant said it ...

With CBS Corp. and Viacom finally set to merge, the new ViacomCBS will bring together the Paramount Pictures film studio and both firms' TV production businesses into a new studio powerhouse.

CBS and Viacom are again talking about a merger — a media marriage that would accelerate the consolidation of content creators. The resulting merger could have repercussions for TV lovers ...

As CBS and Viacom put the pieces back together again and rejoin after nearly 15 years apart, it also means that the former Paramount TV studio assets will be back in the same family as Paramount ...

DirecTV and Viacom have averted a blackout that would have removed channels such as BET and Comedy Central from the pay-TV service. The contract between DirecTV parent AT&T and Viacom expired at ...

Viacom’s current court action could well spark a spirited debate over the massive media consolidation that resulted from repeal of fin-syn. Opponents such as the Caucus for TV Producers ...

In addition to CBS TV Studios, at the 2006 split CBS Corp. also kept the broadcast network, CBS, and pay cable network, Showtime, while Viacom also got the suite of basic cable networks, led by ...

Electronics giant Sony Corp. now has rights to nearly two dozen Viacom television networks -- including BET, Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon -- to include in its upcoming cloud-based TV service.

CBS and Viacom, corporate cousins for the past decade ... “ViacomCBS will focus on supplying films and television series to other companies.” ViacomCBS “intends to follow a strategy of ...

Viacom is buying Pluto TV, a free video streaming TV service, for $340 million in cash. The company calls it another way to build its direct-to-consumer business. Viacom is the owner of MTV ...