Word: viacom
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...commercial radio. I understand that FCC chairman Michael Powell is preparing a space-based defense shield, where he's going to employ laser-equipped antisatellite satellites to shoot death rays at these Stern-carrying vehicles. And--I might as well share this with TIME--I'm also leaving Viacom. We're going to broadcast from the bottom of missile silos...
...CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF VIACOM, THE AMERICAN MEDIA GIANT, WAS IN China last week to announce new business ventures in that country for MTV and Nickelodeon. Back home, meanwhile, another Viacom network, CBS, was weathering the flak over its disputed report on President Bush's National Guard duty. Redstone spoke with TIME's Neil Gough in Guangzhou...
...CLOSELY HAVE YOU BEEN FOLLOWING THE CBS NEWS CONTROVERSY? Let me first give you some perspective. Neither I nor any executive at Viacom has any access to or plays any role in the news reports that come from CBS. Like you, we read about them in the newspapers. Notwithstanding that, I have, for obvious reasons, been carefully monitoring the situation. I have been talking continually with [CBS president] Les Moonves and with the members of the Viacom board. Now we have set up an independent panel--and believe me, it is independent, and believe me, it will move very fast...
WHAT ABOUT POLITICS? There has been comment upon my contribution to Democrats like Senator Kerry. Senator Kerry is a good man. I've known him for many years. But it happens that I vote for Viacom. Viacom is my life, and I do believe that a Republican Administration is better for media companies than a Democratic...
...days are really numbered." HOWARD STERN, controversial radio talk-show host, on air, speaking of the resignation of Viacom president (and Stern backer) Mel Karmazin...