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This is a good deal for Viacom. Infinity has great assets and they generate tremendous amount of cash flow.

Vinton Vickers
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Viacom hasn't changed its valuation from before to after.

Jeff Bewkes
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It's no secret we'd like to expand in the top 20 markets if this is approved and the opportunities are available to us. But we're at 39 percent already (due to the CBS parent Viacom Inc.'s purchase of UPN). Going to 45 percent is not a tremendous change.

Dana Mcclintock
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Viacom is a turnaround story. Blockbuster has had an unbelievably hot hand.

Matt Harrigan
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Viacom and MTV wanted to see that this game has the ability to be a franchise.

Chester Aldridge
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Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerates. But there's also been a big hesitation to try new things, and there's been a lot of inertia at the big media companies. One thing I don't think anyone has accused Steve Jobs of is inertia.

Anthony Valencia
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For companies like Disney and Viacom that don't have a distribution arm, using the Internet provides a way to have a direct relationship with the consumer. You eliminate the middleman.

Aditya Kishore
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The original thought of a single industry CEO centrally administrating all divisions of our business plan, will be replaced with an innovative model similar to what has recently been implemented by Viacom.

Christopher Thompson
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For over thirty years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened. We can no longer stand by as our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits.

Susan Linn
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We have other partnerships (with Viacom), ... we prefer to be the buyer.

Frank Biondi
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For over 30 years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened.

Susan Linn
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When you look at Viacom and AOL Time Warner, their cash flow being generated by their businesses has enabled them to reduce debt and to focus on their businesses.

David Staples
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Here's a company with a great balance sheet driven by its international cable acquisition game plan more than anything else. Liberty has about 15 percent revenue exposure to advertising whereas Viacom, Fox, and News Corp. have about 45 percent exposure.

Stuart Linde
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The real question is around who would make a good partner, ... The leading partners are Murdoch, Disney, GE, Viacom, even Microsoft. I think all would be very interested in gaining that access to the home.

Robert Peck
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Viacom has expressed that they would like to reduce their debt by $3 billion to $5 billion in the course of the next two to three years. The radio sale of over $1 billion is the first step down that path which should allow the company to return to a solid, investment-grade footing.

Stuart Rossmiller
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The cable industry is friendly to women, probably I would assume because in its infancy it paid less and jobs were plentiful. And that I think attracted more women to it. Throughout this whole organization, not just MTV, but Viacom, there's a lot of women in charge.

Christina Norman
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The company is building critical mass by buying overseas assets at a fraction of the value where they were a couple of years ago and isn't troubles by corporate or extraneous issues dogging Viacom or Disney.

Stuart Linde
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It's a Darwinian experiment. Viacom is hoping that one or two hosts will be as popular as Howard. But Howard is a unique talent and he has loyal advertisers.

Laura Martin
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Among the U.S. operations like Viacom, AOL Time Warner, Disney, all of them have been making acquisitions. But all of them have been generating very strong cash flow.

David Staples
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Viacom has a history of being acquisitive. They were going to beef up their existing properties anyways.

Vinton Vickers
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Artists that participate in BET will have an opportunity to have relationships with MTV, VHI and an international reach that BET didn't have. Talent that has a strong affinity for BET will be able to develop and grow projects under the Viacom umbrellas.

Edward Hatch
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