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And it’s pretty clear why she’s in such a rush to put this saga behind her. Recall that in 2019, when she took over the media company created by her dad, the late media mogul Sumner Redstone ...
Sumner Redstone, a Harvard Law School graduate, left his practice in 1954 aged 31, seized control of the business, renamed it National Amusements, and began to buy stakes in large Hollywood studios.
He had been targeted by controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone, the then-93-year-old billionaire, according to news reports from that period. ... The saga paralyzed Viacom, which owned MTV, ...
Paramount has been mostly out of the news lately, but that doesn’t mean nothing is going on behind the scenes in its messy, years-long attempt to sell itself before settling on a merger with ...
Paramount Global, the sprawling media empire behind CBS, MTV, and one of Hollywood’s most storied movie studios, has agreed to merge with technology scion David Ellison’s Skydance Media ...
Paramount Global, the sprawling media empire behind CBS, MTV, and one of Hollywood’s most storied movie studios, has agreed to merge with technology scion David Ellison’s Skydance Media ...
The agreement cements Ellison as a media mogul, ending Shari Redstone’s control of Paramount through her family’s National Amusements holding company, after her father, the late Sumner ...
In 1987, Shari’s father Sumner Redstone acquired Paramount’s predecessor Viacom for $3.4 billion. Viacom won a bidding war for Paramount Communications for about $10 billion in 1994 and ...
Skydance Media's deal to merge with Paramount Global ends a months-long saga that had enough drama to rival a Hollywood movie, ... the late Sumner Redstone, acquired in 1994. ...
The strange saga of the National Park Service and D.C.’s local ... who co-wrote a sweeping 2023 report on Washington’s parks for George Washington University’s Sumner M. Redstone Global Center.