Word: viacom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news of the cache as if it were the discovery of a tenth symphony by Beethoven. In September, Showtime, the pay-cable channel, will begin running weekly collections of the newly released sketches, which vary in length from seven to 45 minutes; a year or so after that, Viacom will put them into regular syndication...
...gives old black-and-white a new life," says Lisa Merians of Viacom Industries, which distributes the Twilight Zone special and owns the rights to such filmed series as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners and The Phil Silvers Show. MGM, which has more than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which...
According to Taylor's postmortem, TEC was caught in the crossfire between HBO, owned by Time Inc., with its 11 million subscribers, and Viacom International Inc.'s Showtime, with 4 million. Taylor predicted a rebirth for TEC in another form, however. He is planning to launch a scaled-down, advertiser-supported channel under the same name late this spring. It will seek a broader audience with fare including Hollywood classics and short-lived TV series from seasons past. RCA and RCI have not decided whether to back the new venture. It would be a gamble...
...rerun. Such venerable series as Hogan 's Heroes and the Andy Griffith Show have been selling in syndication for more money than ever. "In the past ten years, there has been a significant increase in the number of independent stations," says Dennis Gillespie, a senior vice president of Viacom International, the world's major supplier of syndicated shows. "And those stations are buying more and more syndicated programs...