National Amusements, the movie theater chain founded by the Redstone family that holds the controlling stock of CBS and Viacom, has called for the two companies to re-merge after ten years apart, responding to the recent woes of Viacom as its once-mighty cable networks face cord cutters and Paramount Pictures is seemingly being offered to buyers--there would seem to be hope that Les Moonves would run the merged company, although Moonves has indicated he has no interest in trying to prop up Viacom:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-viacom-m-a-cbs-corp-idUSKCN11Y258 Ironically, ten years ago it was thought that Viacom was the stronger company and that CBS, with its old-line radio and TV operations, the Showtime premium channel and Simon & Schuster publishing, was the weaker one. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
