It’s just one of many wild stories in Freston’s captivating memoir, which chronicles his journey from smuggling contraband ...
Sumner Redstone, the billionaire Viacom chairman, was interested in just more than his money and his vast network; he was also all about sex clubs, RadarOnline.com can reveal. Tom Freston, the CEO of ...
Despite his 26 years in a traditional media job, ultimately rising to CEO of what was then Viacom, Tom Freston had no interest in writing a traditional business book. Instead, Unplugged: Adventures ...
The former MTV boss Tom Freston had hoped to meet at one of his old haunts, someplace that might evoke the good old days of the music network he co-founded in 1981. But most of those places are gone: ...
Tom Freston attributes his long-running success as a media entrepreneur who helped shape modern popular culture in America and throughout the world largely to luck. His captivating new book suggests ...
Dozens of Hollywood insiders reflect on the most watched Oscars telecast of all time — including James Cameron, who speaks ...
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Corporate Governance

Hershey Co.’s largest shareholder—a trust that oversees billions of dollars for a local, nonprofit school—has agreed to make significant governance changes that could affect the future of the ...
Tom Freston, who helped shape MTV’s anarchic spirit, sees late-night comics doing the cultural work rock stars once did.
Within a month of the sale of the family's stake in Paramount Global, Redstone in September was named chair of the Israeli ...
The billionaire followed up his family’s $8 billion deal for Paramount with two units from the family behind the media giant.
Success, they say, is inspiration plus perspiration. But what of sheer universe-vibration? We ask the most successful people we know to tell us what role luck plays in one’s career. IN THE EARLY DAYS ...