Word: viacom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days Huizenga operates as chairman of a company called Republic Industries. (He sold Blockbuster to Viacom for $8.4 billion in September 1994.) And his latest scheme promises to rock the very core of the car world, which is worth $1 trillion when viewed as a series of transactions that includes new- and used-car sales, service, accessories and financing. Car businesses compose one-seventh of the economy...
...idea that is catching on--and not only among the Bay Area digerati. "By next fall about 85% of our games will have some kind of online capability," says Jeffrey Anderson, director of domestic licensing for Viacom Consumer Products, which is talking to Velocity about building a Star Trek-based MUD. "Everybody recognizes that that's where the money is going...
...channels and on-demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration gets...
...absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...
...meeting. To be sure, it was a command performance (Bill Clinton had proposed the summit in his State-of-the-Union address), and the subject matter was not one the invitees would have picked: sex and violence. But at least everyone was talking the same language. When Viacom's Jonathan Dolgen warned that putting ratings on shows might make the networks shy away from strong programs like NYPD Blue in favor of more frivolous fare like Starsky and Hutch, the nation's chief Baby Boomer reacted with mock offense: "I have a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch...