Websites settle with New York over online child tracking

Some of the biggest child-oriented websites are learning a hard lesson about the importance of respecting kids' privacy. New York state has reached settlements with Hasbro, JumpStart Games, Mattel and Viacom for violating the Children's Online Priva...

BET gets its own mobile streaming service

Viacom is making good on its promise to parcel out its channels as individual services for cord cutters. It's launching a BET Play app that lets you watch the network's black culture programming for $4 per month on your Android and iOS devices. You...

Comedy Central, BET, MTV, more Viacom networks will hit Sling TV

Viacom networks Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Spike, Nick Jr. and others will land on Dish's streaming service, Sling TV, in the coming months. These channels will be available in single-stream and multi-stream packages, though there's no word on specifi...

Cablevision and Viacom settle their lawsuits over channel bundling

And just like that, Cablevision's feud with Viacom over channel bundling is over. The two TV giants have settled their antitrust lawsuits with promises that they're making "mutually beneficial business arrangements." Neither side is saying what tho...

BET revives MTV’s Punk’d


On Thursday the cable network BET announced it will be reviving the hit MTV hidden camera prank show Punk’d. BET is the sister network to MTV and it recently ordered seven new series one of them...

Viacom fiscal 2Q net income up 16 pct


Viacom posts 16 pct increase in fiscal 1st-qtr net income on lower film-related losses NEW YORK (AP) — Viacom's net income for the first quarter jumped 16 percent as lower costs at its film division...

Fired Yahoo Exec’s $109M Golden Parachute Was One Of The Biggest Ever


There are a lot of different ways to express just how massive is the payout Yahoo is bestowing upon Henrique De Castro, the chief operations officer fired this week by CEO Marissa Mayer after only...
    






Paramount Layoff will Hit 110 Workers


Paramount layoff season come again this year. And the studio is going to lay off almost similar number of employees this year as it did last year. 110 employees out of total 2200 studio workers will...