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Update: MTV To Cut Some 250 Jobs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 11 Feb 2007 05:55 PM PST

Update: MTV Networks will announce layoff details Monday, according to a Viacom insider. The source disputed the number in the NY Post report detailed below. “The number is closer to…

Viacom-YouTube: Execs Duel In The Press; Cuban Calls For Action - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 02 Feb 2007 09:20 PM PST

Viacom knew exactly what it was doing with a showy demand that YouTube take down tens of thousands of clips—even though it apparently didn’t really know for sure that each…

VH1 Serves Up User-Generated Content With Talentload.tv - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 02 Feb 2007 09:41 AM PST

VH1 has taken a step toward serving up branded user-generated content with the launch of Talentload.tv. The site—VH1 says the first of many—is sponsored by Warner Brothers to promote the…

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Viacom Demands That Google Pull More Than 100,000 Clips From YouTube; Site Is Complying - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 02 Feb 2007 07:37 AM PST

Updated below to include statement from Google: Exasperated by the failure to reach an agreement with Google and YouTube after months of negotiations, Viacom sent Google a letter today demanding…

MTV Experiments With Virtual Reality TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Tue 30 Jan 2007 05:54 AM PST

Once upon a time, back in the age of Duran Duran and A Flock of Seagulls, MTV stood for “Music Television.” Now, it stands for ... well, that’s a good…

Big Brands Fail On Music Subscription Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 28 Jan 2007 03:19 PM PST

Online music subscription services should be left to small startups focused on the space, or so says this article from Reuters. It cites the demise of AOL Music Now and…

@ MidemNet: Salmi: User-Gen Wave Revives MTV And Labels’ Interest In Music Videos - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sat 20 Jan 2007 07:12 AM PST

[By Robert Andrews] MTV helped hasten the demise of the music video - but could resuscitate it with user-generated content, according to the company’s global head of digital media. Mika…

MTVN Pumps UP MTVU With Acquisition Of RateMyProfessors.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 17 Jan 2007 09:32 AM PST

Viacom MTV Networks is buying RateMyProfessors.com for its 24-hour college net mtvU; no financial terms were disclosed for the deal expected to close this quarter. The full-time staff stays as…

MTVN Invests In TagWorld; Eager For Social Networking Tools - 10 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 16 Jan 2007 03:23 PM PST

You’re reading this here first ... According to multiple sources, Viacom has invested in social networking company TagWorld for MTV Networks—not for the site but for access to the company’s…

Another Senior MTVN Departure; Judy’s Letter To The Troops - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 12 Jan 2007 10:55 AM PST

Time for another installment of “Real World: Times Square” with the staff of MTVN as cast ... Peter Low, EVP-cable TV distribution and affiliate marketing, is the latest to leave.…

MTV Networks COO Michael Wolf Resigns; So Does Nicole Browning, President, Affiliate Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 11 Jan 2007 03:41 PM PST

Updated, see below: Another major Viacom management change: MTV Networks President and COO Michael Wolf (left, in the picture) is leaving the company, after just 15 months in the job.…

@ CES: Viacom Brass, Elvis, More Make The Flickr Stream - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 11:38 PM PST

You never know who or what will show up in our CES photos. Neither do I—some pictures that look great on the small camera LCD turn out to be downright…

Salmi’s MTVN Digital Team Finally Set; Lehman Will Head New Games and Interactive Media Unit - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 04 Jan 2007 07:10 PM PST

The official word isn’t due until Friday but you’re reading it here first ... Two months after accepting the job of running the Viacom unit’s digital strategy, Mika Salmi, president…