Have you ever seen the owner of MTV?
 

Never in a million years would you think this billionaire would own something as wild and on the edge as MTV.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/...edstonesum.jpg

Sumner Redstone is estimated to be worth $6 Billion. He started in business in the 1940's with drive in movie theaters.

Other holdings include Viacom, Paramount, VH1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Nickelodean, radio stations, TV stations, syndication company that owns the rights to Roseanne, A Different World, I Love Lucy, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, and The Cosby Show. CBS, UPN Network, BET, Comedy Channel, TV Land, Spike. Infinity broadcasting and billboard advertising. Blockbuster video stores. 1,700 movie theaters. Simon & Schuster. Famous Music which owns the publishing rights to over 100,000 songs, including music from The Godfather.

Viacom employs 122,000 people. Has Gross Revs of 24 Billion and Nets about $4 Billion a year.

is he the largest shareholder of viacom?

Yeh, I think 30% - 40%.

Mucho dinero!

i think he owns more of the other associated ocmpanies....

http://biz.yahoo.com/t/19/967.html

No idea how that pie is made up though

damn, that guy should be proud. he's made a lot of experimental shit very successful. talk about earning your $

he looks pretty wild

besides the point of the old man..

are you saying mtv is "wild" and "on the edge"?

:1orglaugh

Yes, ofcourse I have seen who owns MTV. Let me guess, is he Jewish?

what the hell...

where the hell did I hear Pauly Shore's dad owned mtv.. that person that told me that need to be slapped....

Who did you think owned it? Some 20 year old punk?

By the way, his birth name is Murray Rothstein.

What's a better name for getting into Harvard like he did.

Murray Rothstein or Sumner Redstone? :1orglaugh

You know how those Boston Blue Bloods think.

yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

this lyric comes to mind for some reason :glugglug

"damn it feels good to be a gangsta"

Im sure he doesnt do the programming .. Just the owner..

Oy, it's a conspiracy.

Or anything else really. He's just the figurehead.

When Viacom originally bought MTV, it wasn't as "on the edge" as it is today. They bought it back when they played music videos 24hrs a day with brief interuption for stupid VJ antics. Back then there was no Real World, Beavis and Butthead or Jackass.

Yep, just like Murdoch. :1orglaugh

One of the main reasons people invest in the media is to get across their point of view, I find it highly highly unlikely that this is not the case with MTV.

This guy is worth $7.2 Billion and he owns the Simpsons

http://images.forbes.com/images/2001...ch_200x260.jpg

I think Robert Johnson owns the biggest non-institutional chunk of viacom :)

Handsome looking chap :1orglaugh

chump change! =P

Is Sumner Redstone a Jewish name? Just because it says "stone" ...

I don't know, but it seems his birth name Rothstein anyway.

Some people just have that magic touch.

lol

Nope i haven't...:helpme

he owns all of us.

He controls so many newspapers, book publishers, and tv networks that barely anyone gets news or information that hasn't been filtered through his politics first.

yeah, right :winkwink:

Who is Brian Graden then isn't he the President of MTV ?

IIRC, he's the president of programming with MTV.

they might be billionaires but they both look like they have about 2 years left to enjoy it. :eek7

Billionaires are elite :glugglug

Yeh, that's the bitch of life. You become a billionaire and then drop deap.

That's why its great to achieve success at a young age like so many here are doing.

Thank you for clearing that up. A friend of mine use to work with Brian Graden about a year back. I was not sure what his role was. :winkwink:

yeah,no shit. I bet they haven't thought of it though.....

A long relative had an uncle that was Rockefeller's personal butler. One day he asked him what Onasis is doing cause he haven't heard anything about him for some time. The butler replied him that Onasis had died. Rockefeller, turned surprised and said: "Onasis is dead? How come? Onasis was rich man"

:1orglaugh

lol
the best is he own BET

who would have thought :)

Yeh, very true, he has that southern racist look.

to think he has The Soooooul Train

http://www.blackvoices.com/feature/s..._cornelius.gif

i dont know too much about him, but i know that many of the ad spots on time square are owned by viacom..

thats like printing money IMO.. let advertisers worry about conversions. lol