For Viacom, the future of television has an increasingly online sheen. The media conglomerate is bringing a slew of content from its flagship cable networks to Viacom-owned Pluto TV — launching 14 ...

CBS and Viacom are reportedly in talks for a merger, which could reach a wider streaming audience, with a broader catalog and help from Pluto TV.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Viacom and DirecTV fought a bruising bout over fees to a draw Friday and agreed to a long-term deal that ended a 10-day channel blackout. Their new deal restored MTV, Comedy Central ...

April 30 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Viacom Inc said on Thursday it would buy British TV broadcaster Channel 5 from media baron Richard Desmond for $760 million (450 million pounds) as a keystone to ...

There's been another clash in the cable/satellite provider versus content creator wars. This time it's Direct TV and Viacom. Twenty million households subscribe to Direct TV and currently they are all ...

LONDON — Viacom has won the bidding for U.K. free-to-air TV net Channel 5, buying the broadcaster from entrepreneur Richard Desmond‘s Northern & Shell Media Group for £450 million ($757 million).

Viacom is focusing its attention on six channels in an effort to shore up soured relations with its distribution partners. WSJ's Keach Hagey explains the strategy behind the move on Lunch Break with ...

The latest dispute between a programmer and pay TV operator went right up to the midnight wire — and then straight over the cliff as 26 Viacom channels went dark on DirecTV. And, as usual, no matter ...

CBS has agreed to buy Viacom, and employees at the takeover target are hoping their turnaround efforts will be enough to save their jobs.

DENVER (AP) - After a two-day blackout that prompted thousands of calls from angry viewers, EchoStar Communications Corp. and Viacom Inc. reached a deal that restored popular cable channels like MTV ...

Forget the big cable TV bundle. Viacom plans to narrow its focus to six key channel brands including MTV and Comedy Central. The Wall Street Journal's Keach Hagey says it's a bid by Viacom to improve ...