Microsoft & Viacom ink $500 million-plus Web & TV deal
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In an online advertising and cable TV entertainment deal of sweeping proportions, Microsoft and Viacom will be teaming up with each other on both the Web as well as on Viacom's broadband network for at least five years.
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MTV Networks owners Viacom Inc. said  it &quot;welcomes&quot; the opportunity to license its content to Apple  Inc. after the iPod maker signed a deal with top online video  distributor YouTube.
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks on  Wednesday said it would buy Internet video and games company  Atom Entertainment Inc. for $200 million as big media companies  move to compete with online upstarts such as video leader  YouTube.com.
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The media company that owns MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures said Wednesday that it will now advertise online through Microsoft as part of a larger deal.
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Microsoft partners with Blockbuster Online, CinemaNow, and MovieTickets.com on one-stop entertainment portal.
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Viacom Inc said on Wednesday it has  selected Microsoft Corp. as its Internet advertising partner in  a five-year agreement initially valued at an estimated $500  million that involves online games, shows and movies.
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Yes, they say, it is Google's DoubleClick After suing one Google acquisition for $1bn, US media behemoth Viacom has now divorced another, leaping headlong into the arms of Microsoft.â¦
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LOS ANGELES  - An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.  The eye-popping $75 million pact announced Monday by Comedy Central and the creators of "South Park" may be the most prominent example of the Internet as a bona fide backend window alongside syndication and DVD. The duo of Matt Stone and Trey Parker will get a 50-50 ad split on digital platforms but not on television.
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Cable company Comcast and Microsoft announced a deal Monday that will offer the software giant&#39;s new digital cable software platform to more than 1 million homes beginning next week.
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Media conglomerate says it will make an offer for 77.7% of financial news site it still doesn&#39;t own. NEW YORK  - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.
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In its latest move in an ongoing battle with cable companies, SBC Communications today announced a 10-year, $400 million deal to use Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) IP television platform.
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Viacom Inc.  agreed to sell its Famous Music publishing business to Sony/ATV Music Publishing for about $370 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
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Viacom is making videos available on five online video services, plus Comcast's broadband site.
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SBC Communications plans to announce that it will pay $400 million to Microsoft for software used to deliver TV programming over high-speed data lines.
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Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. agreed Thursday to pay a total of $1.5 million to settle government charges the companies violated advertising limits for children&#39;s television programming.
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SBC Communications, the No. 2 U.S.  telecommunications company, has agreed to pay $400 million to  Microsoft Corp. for software that can deliver television via  high-speed data lines, The New York Times reported on  Wednesday.
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Television has been something of a great white whale for Microsoft. The company has tried to sell WebTV and build software for TVs and cable boxes.