Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) experiment in cross-company, multiplatform ad sales for MTV and CBS has ended, Ad Age reports. The division known as Viacom Plus started to fall apart last November…

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In what is being described as a new deal of its kind, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators and executive producers of “South Park”, have renewed their deal with…

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-- Starz Media’s Manga Ambitions: Starz Media is taking its manga content online...it has licensed 40 hours of popular manga content to Heavy.com, which will break it into short clips…

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For a while there, MTV (NYSE: VIA) owned the video music world, becoming as much a part of pop culture and music entertainment as the artists it showcased. But, as…

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Talks began 11 months ago about developing some sort of partnership between RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA). After considering several different models, the two eventually settled on…

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RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) has a 5 PM EST conference call planned to discuss the financial details of the new JV company, but it just filed an 8-K with details. Real…

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While the news of MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) was closing its online music service Urge and merging it with RealNetworks’ (Nasdaq: RNWK) Rhapsody music service was a night old by…

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The news was supposed to be announced at a press conference tomorrow at 11 A.M. in NYC, but WSJ jumped the gun figured it out while the rest of us…

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A few weeks after its younger sibling Nickelodeon said it would put up $100 million to develop casual gaming initiatives, MTV Networks unveiled plans to invest more than $500 million…

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MTVN’s Logo (NYSE: VIA) has added another community to its federation of affiliated sites catering to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) niche with an agreement to acquire multicultural…

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Most of the names on the deposition lists in Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) copyright suit against YouTube and parent Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are business as usual—Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey Brin,…

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Will the iFilm brand survive? The question Rafat asked last March after breaking the news that MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) was merging 2005 acquisition online video site iFILM with SpikeTV.com,…

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That came out today in MTV’s parent Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) 10-Q filing for its Q2 earnings: “In the second quarter, the Company recorded a pre-tax impairment charge of $36.0 million…

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Viacom (NYSE: VIA) reported that profit dipped 1 percent in Q2, coming in at $434 million, or 63 cents per share, down from last year’s $437.3 million, or 61 cents…

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Some changes at BET, as MTV Networks’ digital team lost its second senior executive in a week (the first being Nicholas Lehman who jumped to IAC as COO of programming):…

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The MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group will invest $100 million in casual gaming over the next two years, primarily in 2008-09. The announcement was made in conjunction with…

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-- Turner Broadcasting has merged the digital ad-sales units for animation, entertainment and sports into one operation and hired Walker Jacobs to run it. Jacobs was SVP of the Reuters…

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You’re reading it here first ... MTVN vet Nicholas Lehman reports to work at IAC Monday as COO for Michael Jackson, president of programming. Lehman is expected to partner with…

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-Viacom: Viacom’s BET Networks has partnered with Brightcove to launch a new black culture internet video channel in the U.K.  BETonBlast.co.uk will offer music, entertainment, news, fashion and celebrity programming,…

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Revision3: PC Magazine’s Jim Louderback is jumping ship and sides, moving to Revision3 as CEO, according to NewTeeVee. Louderback was editor in chief for PC mag and editorial director for…

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It isn’t quite Live 8—the vast new Wembley doesn’t even appear to be sold out—but the six-hour Concert for Diana is underway and viewable by just about anyone with cable,…

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-- Tribune Broadcasting: Rick Felty has been promoted to VP-digital media, a new post at the Tribune Company unit. Felty was VP-creative services. He is charged with directing the central…

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While Google has been using Audible Magic’s sonic technology tools to identify and filter copyrighted music on YouTube, the company as opted for its own video solutions and promises to…

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Eighteen months in, the debate continues over the value of splitting Viacom into the new Viacom, home of MTV Networks, and CBS. The latest round comes courtesy of WSJ, where…

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You’re reading it here first ... MTVN is finally moving to fill a position left vacant since Ben White left for Sling Media; the official announcement is due later today.…

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