NEW YORK -- Viacom Inc., the media giant that owns CBS, MTV and Nickelodeon, is buying the biggest black-oriented cable channel in a nearly $3...

...single company, a decision that most immediately impacts Viacom Inc.'s ownership of CBS and the fledgling UPN network...read. The modification adopted Thursday will enable Viacom Inc., which acquired CBS in a merger last year, to hold...

...Colbert Report. Similarly, over the past few years, the channel which, like MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon, is owned by Viacom Inc. has developed a broad and deep Web site full of repurposed content seen on television and added Web-only material...

...may have to spin off some of its broadcast properties and reshuffle others. The deal may also have a direct impact on Viacom Inc.'s UPN network. Until Friday morning, it was widely expected that Viacom, the owner of CBS, was going to be the...

...Inc.s Real Arcade sells downloadable games as well as monthly subscriptions to its 550 titles. Neopets, owned by Viacom Inc.s MTV Networks, and GoPets generate revenue from sales of virtual items. Casual games have the advantage of having...

...industry and comes just four months after another blockbuster media merger, the proposed combination of CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. The deal values Time Warner at about $110 a share, a rich premium of 71 percent over its price of $64.75 a share...

...Schuster and still be objective when voting on the myriad issues affecting the publisher's parent company, media giant Viacom Inc. "This book contract, with its uniquely lavish advance for an elected official, may be, in fact, a way for that...

...be better. Investors now place a huge premium on specialty cable channels, as seen by the rich $2.3 billion that Viacom Inc. agreed to pay last fall for BET, a major minority broadcaster. The Food Network turned a tiny profit in 1999, a...