Word: viacom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days after Case's resignation, speculation arose that some outside stockholders were trying to force the company to bring in Viacom president Mel Karmazin, but no one could produce evidence that anyone in charge at AOL had spoken with him. Instead, the AOL board acted swiftly to elect Parsons as both chairman and CEO, strengthening his hand as he takes on one of the toughest turnaround tasks in corporate America...
...premiums of between 25% and 40% in scatter" above the prices fetched last spring, says Joseph Abruzzese, the former president of sales for Viacom's CBS Television, who just left to take over ad sales at cable's Discovery Networks, a unit of Discovery Communications. And that was after CBS leveraged last season's muscular prime-time performance into 10% to 12% up-front rate increases, especially for such younger-skewing hits as Survivor, Everybody Loves Raymond...
...million Disney shares. Two weeks ago, after the company reported weak quarterly results, word leaked that the pair had adopted an unusually combative tone. Some now speculate that Eisner won't be re-hired when his contract expires in 2006, or may go earlier. Mentioned as successors are Viacom president Mel Karmazin, Sony of America CEO Howard Stringer, and former Disney-ite Jeffrey Katzenberg...
...Lansing points out that the ultimate test has not yet been met for women executives in Hollywood. She notes that there are no female Hollywood titans on the level of Disney's Michael Eisner or Viacom's Sumner Redstone. "The women I came up with," says Lansing, "we all got into this business to make movies, not to run corporations. But I think that right now at the Harvard Business School, there's some girl sitting there saying, 'I don't want Sherry Lansing's job. I want to be Sumner Redstone...
...once a simple French water utility, acquiring a hodgepodge of cross-border assets, from phone companies to film studios, that at some point were supposed to connect seamlessly and gush money. But he was late to the Big Media theory. Firms like Disney, AOL Time Warner, News Corp. and Viacom had already spent billions connecting content with distribution. To catch up, Messier became a serial acquirer, buying the Bronfmans' Seagram Co. and its Universal movie studio, theme parks and music group for $34 billion in stock. Last year, in the U.S. alone, he agreed to buy book publisher Houghton Mifflin...