Tom Freston, former Viacom CEO, MTV co-founder and ‘Unplugged’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the rise and fall of MTV, state of the media landscape, who the top media executives are in his ...

Whatever happened to rock and metal's class of 1985? It was an interesting time for heavier music. In the metal world, thrash was all the rage. On the heels of Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, four ...

As expected from the midpoint of a decade, the center year of the '80s, 1985, was caught between movements, styles and trends. Change has always been the nucleus of any great music; to keep art ...

A former media executive is parting ways with an old-school home after 30 years. Ex-Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has listed his 4-story, red-brick mansion on East 65th Street for $37 million. Dauman ...

Stuck between the '70s and '90s, literally and figuratively, the '80s reached its midpoint in a melting pot of styles: rock, pop, metal, new wave, alternative, soul, dance and more. As selected by the ...

Nick Cannon‘s been a “Bad” boy. The host and creator of the Viacom-owned MTV’s wildly-successful improv rap battle show “Wild N’ Out” allegedly stole key elements of the program for a copycat on the ...

What were best rock songs of 1985? What better way to share that with you than taking you back in time and using the method in which we often shared what music we loved with others - through a mixtape ...

Paramount Global is selling its stake in Viacom 18 Media Private for $517 million to Reliance Industries shortly after the Indian companies announced a joint venture with Walt Disney’s Star India. The ...

India’s Reliance Industries has announced a deal to acquire Paramount Global’s 13.01 per cent stake in indian entertainment network Viacom 18 Media for IDR 42.86 billion (€472.4bn), according to ...

Jonathan Dolgen, the former head of Viacom Entertainment and a former top 20th Century Fox executive, died Oct. 9 of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 78. For a decade, from 1994 until 2004, the ...

Paramount Global has agreed to a $167.5 million settlement of a case stemming from the controversial 2019 merger of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. that created the entertainment company, a Securities and ...

Paramount giveth, and Paramount taketh away: Paramount Global will receive a $167.5 million settlement from a shareholder lawsuit over CBS’ merger with Viacom, less than two months after paying out ...