Viacom to Buy Calif. CBS Station for $285 Mln
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Viacom Inc., the parent company of television network CBS, on Thursday said it had agreed to purchase, KOVR-TV, a CBS affiliate station in Sacramento, California, subject to regulatory approval.
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EchoStar Communications Corp. said on Thursday it agreed to purchase a direct broadcast satellite from a unit of Cablevision Systems Corp. for &#36;200 million.
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MarketWatch, which owns the financial news site CBS MarketWatch.com Web site, has agreed to be bought by Dow Jones &amp; Co. for $520 million, MarketWatch announced Sunday.
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Corrects paragraph 8 to say Infinity is part of CBS and no  longer a division of Viacom
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NEW YORK -- Viacom Inc. said Wednesday it is selling Famous Music, a music publishing business whose catalog has more than 125,000 songs including "Moon River" and "Footloose," to a unit of Sony Corp. for about $370 million.
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Media & professional: CBS buys music recommendation site Last.fm, ending months of speculation.
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CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS.A)(NYSE:CBS) and The Electric Sheep Company  have announced a strategic partnership to realize the potential of  virtual worlds as a new way to interact with audiences, create  communities and build new advertising channels.
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Online social music site Last.fm is acquired by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (Â£140m).
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WASHINGTON (DowJonesAP) - Viacom (VIA) plans to submit a bid to buy financial news provider MarketWatch (MKTW), according to a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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DirecTV Group  the largest U.S. satellite television service, will buy its controlling shareholder News Corp Ltd.'s  stakes in Sky Latin America for &#36;579 million and combine its operations with DirecTV Latin America, the companies said on Monday.
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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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Viacom Inc. confirmed Thursday that it plans to bid for the part of MarketWatch that it doesn&#39;t already own. Viacom, which holds a 22.
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Viacom Inc., parent of CBS and MTV, said Thursday it expects to make an offer to buy the remainder of financial information and news provider MarketWatch Inc.
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks said Friday it will buy Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a developer of music-themed video games, for $175 million in cash.
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CBS Corp. has acquired Last.fm, a social networking site for music fans, for $280 million in cash.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd.  NCP.AX will sell its stake in Sky Latin America to DirecTV  Group DTV.N, another company which it controls, for $579  million in order to consolidate operations of the two satellite  broadcasters, the companies said on Monday.
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Dow Jones is set to announce that it will pay about $486 million for the parent company of CBS MarketWatch, a business news site.