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Calif. Couple Says Reality Home Improvement TV Show Caused 200-Gallon Sewage SpillSpike TV Show 'Catch a Contractor' Sued for $2.9 Million by Calif. Couple
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Michelle Obama Encourages Would-Be College Students to Apply for Financial Aid
… future." The Department of Education hosted the event along with "Get Schooled," a non-profit organization founded by Viacom that provides students with resources and motivation to encourage them to enroll in college. Today's event was focused …
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Pro Fighters Tag Team With Senators to Promote Brain Injury Study
… entities Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank Boxing, as well as mixed martial arts programs Ultimate Fighting Championship and Viacom 's Bellator MMA and Glory kickboxing, committed a total of $600,000 towards the clinic's research. The new study …
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CBS, Time Warner Cable Standoff Could Last Weeks… hardworking people." This is not the first time cable companies have blocked channels from their lineups. DirecTV blacked out Viacom networks MTV and Nickelodeon for nine days last year over a fee dispute. "The consumer should be aware that this could …
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Netflix Goes After Streaming Newbies With Netflix Families… Nickelodeon programming earlier this year. Amazon , its lead competitor in the space, continues to provide access to Viacom 's popular kids programming. Still, Netflix says it is well suited to appeal to both kids and adult users and is trying …
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The Top 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Led by CBS' Leslie Moonves… salary: $2.5 million. Fiscal year 2011 compensation: $31,363,013 4. Philippe P. Dauman, president and CEO, Viacom Base salary: $3.5 million. Fiscal year 2011 compensation: $43,077,942 5. John J. Donahoe, president and CEO …
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Lady Gaga 'Doing Great' After Surgery… skills and resources to create a kinder, braver world and just the impact of the foundation in terms of partnering with viacom the berkman center at harvard, it's just incredible. And the born brave bus will be touring around from here, it heads …
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Anchor Reads Own Marriage Proposal on Live TV… you'll see that David your life. Shut the door to block tonight I haven't been limited today and let Natalie that it is Viacom . In turn on the television. And we aren't that didn't turn up okay. You figure and gone back to my Like intelligence …
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The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, January 9, 2013
… who's who of multinational media conglomerates, including Time Warner, AT&T, Qualcomm, News Corp, Comcast, Sprint, Viacom , Walt Disney, and DISH Network. At the same time, Markey was either the chairman or the top Democrat on the House Subcommittee …
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Hurricane Sandy Winners And Losers… plant's operator, Entergy, attributed the shutdown to "an electrical grid disturbance" stemming from the storm. Viacom -Comedy Central : With studios in flood-prone lower Manhattan, producers had to cancel tapings of such hit shows as …
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Ochocinco's Wife Discusses Star's Arrest, Head-Butt Charge… been controversial because of what many say is excessive violence. There's a petition with 30,000 signatures asking viacom to take the show off the air. And chad was fired from the dolphins the day after the int dent. He's remained largely …
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Basketball Wives: Evelyn Lozada Speaks… been controversial because of what consider excessive violence. There was a petition with over 30,000 signatures asking viacom to take "basketball wives" off the air. If do you another season are we going to sigh different evelyn? I'm always …
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Taxpayers Subsidize CEO Pay, Report Says
… is followed by Discovery Communications' David Zaslav; Viacom 's Philippe Dauman; Motorola Mobility Holdings' Sanjay ..... Leslie Moonves. Neither Oracle, Discovery Communications, Viacom and Motorola Mobility Holdings returned calls requesting …
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John Mayer May Be Dating Katy Perry… pet adoption. Which by the way rob. With the ASPCA alongside attacking George. Well guess what he has gone massively Viacom . that's yesterday dance acting debut with George. Hit the one million mark one million views and hopefully that many …
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TechBytes: DirecTV, 'Ruby Blast' Game Review… In today's tech good news for twenty million DirecTV customers the satellite provider has signed a long term deal with Viacom and a ten day blackout for subscribers. The affected channels included MTV Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. In this week's …
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JC Penney Hit By New Credit Downgrade
… LIBOR borrowing rates. DirectTV has pulled the plug on Viacom Channels, including MTV Nikelodeon and Comedy Central ..... the middle of a dispute between the satellite provider and Viacom over how much money is being paid to carry programming …
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Five Companies That Split--and One That Didn't… It's not splitting off into equals, like CBS and Viacom did," said Corty. "It's a little more similar to ..... share when they split and now it's at about $37. 5. Viacom /CBS
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President Obama Goes Back to Singing With 'Call Me Maybe'… the president is even getting involved with some creative editing of course I don't. And this is crazy and partners Viacom . So call me maybe. It's hard to right. Number. So call me maybe. I doubt that Mr. President no word yet on how …
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Jobless Claims Drop, Apple Moving Into Big-Box Stores… rob. and and GM in particular interest in GM beat their number. There's a lot of hobby to but Viacom hamster trend in media. CBS yesterday Viacom 's Bob square pants apparently huge quarter. Not once thought we've been writing off big media …
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Dan Rather Relives 60 Years of U.S. History… upsets you that you write about in the book is that you felt. That you team at CBS. And its corporate ownership. At Viacom didn't back you up. In that pursuit of news and the truth will. But it was a situation in the corporate top corporal …
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TechBytes (02.09.12)… shows on their computers phones. And Amazon is expanding those online choices and the sub prime now offers programs from Viacom 's networks and TV. Comedy Central VH one NTV land. Amazon prime costs about 79 dollars a year it includes two day shipping …
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Golden Parachutes: 21 CEOs Landed $100M Plus… WellPoint Health Leonard Schaeffer 1992-2004 $119,041,000 XTO Energy Inc. Bob R. Simpson 1986-2008 $103,485,972 Viacom Thomas E. Freston 2006 $100,839,772 (Source: GMI)
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Vevo's CEO Rio Caraeff Opens Up… people. What else are you working on? We have a deal with Viacom media networks, which is inclusive of MTV and BET, and ..... online businesses. That hasn't launched yet. But MTV and Viacom are working on integrating our videos, and that will launch …
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MTV’s Latest ‘True Life’ Goes Inside Occupy Wall Street
Caitlin Connelo, center, and Kait Cornell protest Wall St. (Courtesy Viacom ) Forty days after joining the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park, Bryan James, 23, is quite settled in: He …
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Apple, Google, Yahoo: Which Would Be Good Match for Hulu?… tightly integrated. Television shows and movies are bought via its iTunes software and are shuttled across its Apple TV ..... snags with Hollywood over unauthorized content popping up. Viacom , the owner of Paramount Pictures, has been engaged in a …
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Hulu takes center stage
… Hollywood over unauthorized content popping up on its site. Viacom , the owner of Paramount Pictures, has been engaged in a ..... the Internet to TV sets, the four major TV networks — Viacom 's CBS, Comcast's NBC, Disney's ABC and News Corp's …
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Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Will Air TV Commercials
… Colbert recently received approval by the Federal Election Commission to establish a Super PAC that allows him to collect money for a political cause and to promote his Super PAC on his television show which is owned by Viacom .
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Rich Get Richer… found that she. Executive of DirecTV. Was paid 33 million dollars last year the head of Occidental Petroleum 76 million. Viacom 's chief top all CEOs and 85 million dollars on average CEO pay went up 23%. While wages for the rest of us rose a meager …
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Salary of Top American Executives Up 23 Percent in 2010… the chief executive of DirecTV was paid $33 million last year. The head of Occidental Petroleum was paid $76 million. Viacom 's chief topped all CEOs at $84.5 million, after signing a new long-term contract that included one-time stock …
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FEC Approves Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC for 2012 Election
… commission, the panel ruled that "some of Viacom 's activities would fall within the ..... also ruled that any Comedy Central / Viacom -produced advertisements cannot air on ..... incurred by the U.S. subsidiaries of Viacom , Inc., including Comedy Central …
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News Corp. Sells MySpace for a Mere $35 Million… social media, but has lost out to Facebook and Twitter. When News Corp. bought MySpace in 2005, it bested rival bidder Viacom for what was then a highly contested property. In August 2005, MySpace had about 22 million visitors a month in the U …
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'50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter'… so there's this a consumption which is a big part of it army unit when you buy stuff when gone. You know by a Fiore Viacom that that's that's consumption have a a slew of independence. Dedicates lap and then we have investment I'm might …
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Stephen Colbert Super PAC Hits A Snag… Comedy Central's parent company, Viacom . Last week, Colbert sought formal ..... contribution, and if so, whether Viacom will be forced to try and determine ..... Election Commission to help clarify Viacom 's legal responsibilities. On another …
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Google unleashes music and movie services
… get started somewhere. There's still that Viacom suit," Gartner analyst Mike McGuire said. Viacom sued Google over YouTube in March 2007 for ..... court ruled in Google's favor in June. But Viacom is appealing that decision. Google's move …