By Samantha Simon | July 20, 2012 at 1:27 pm | No comments
Dear, DirecTV subscribers: You no longer need to switch cable providers to watch your favorite Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon shows. Today Viacom and DirecTV made peace and struck a deal.
You may remember the two companies have been fighting over how much DirecTV would...
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By Dana Sitar | July 12, 2012 at 1:36 pm | 5 comments
Maybe a lot of viewers weren’t too upset to learn this week that DirecTV had dropped Viacom networks -- including Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and VH1 -- because our favorite shows were still available online. But now that has changed.
As the battle over increased fees...
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By Samantha Simon | July 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm | 4 comments
As a result of the absence of a deal between DirecTV and Viacom, DirecTV subscribers will no longer have access to Comedy Central among its sibling major networks, Nickelodeon, MTV and VH1. Both sides blamed each other but it's doubtful anyone outside the two companies cares who...
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By Carrie Andersen | June 30, 2011 at 12:13 pm | One comment
Stephen Colbert is no stranger to entering the political fray. He ran for president four years ago (well, only in South Carolina, but who’s counting?), he testified before the House Committee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Security following working with migrant...
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By Becca Scheuer | June 23, 2010 at 5:30 pm | One comment
Back in March we wrote about the lawsuit between Viacom (Comedy Central's parent company) and YouTube over video copyright infringement. Today, though, Viacom's $1 billion suit was dismissed. The courts declared YouTube is protected under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act...
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