Talk:Viacom (1971-2005)

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[edit] Move from Viacom (1986)

I don't think it was wise to move the Viacom (1986) article I created to one that indicates the year 1971. The prior Viacom was not founded in 1971: it was founded in 1986. There was some sort of previous instance of the company that existed from 1971-1986, but I haven't yet researched the details of it or why it was refounded. Nonetheless, I expect that there may be a separate article in the future covering the 1971 instance. That's why I created it as "Viacom (1986)", and I used only the founding year in the title to follow the convention of Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1886) and Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1998), the latter company of which is still in existence, and both of which are highly intertwined with the CBS-Viacom transactions.Jkatzen 22:20, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duet?

The Phil Collins song "Seperate Lives" is about divorce, right? Well, who would represent each company in that duet? You'd have to have a man and a woman. You might call it corny, but I find it pretty funny. 71.111.209.99 23:48, 29 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Viacom Cable

We had cable service called viacom cable, where is the information about them as a cable company? User:crd721

You must be talking about Viacom Cablevision. I don't know much about it, however.-TheVofSteel

Viacom Cable, was headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, and grew to become a One million subscriber MSO. The division was sold to Tele-Communications International (TCI)in 1996. Celliot2 (talk) 13:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why Not Any Logo Reference?

WGBH has a section for the Flash of Doom, why no V of Doom here? It's even more widely-known. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.208.154.222 (talk) 03:50, 21 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Viacom logos

Hey, shouldn't we add a section for Viacom's closing logos from 1971 until 2004. This may be more noteworthy than you think. Sean90 23:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. The Green Lantern 02:58, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

In a late 2007 interview on C-SPAN's "The Communicators," Ralph Baruch (first chairman of Viacom) remarks that he hated the company name, that it was chosen for graphical reasons (another executive was very heavily graphics-oriented and envisioned the logo with the A and V being inverses), and that it was originally pronounced VEEacom (as in Venus).

Sumner Redstone, when he purchased Viacom, changed the pronunciation to the much more well known V[eye]acom.

At time of writing, a Podcast of the episode in question can be downloaded from http://download.rbn.com/cspan/cspan/download/com_feed.xml

(Maybe we are all used to the modern pronunciation, but I do not change articles unless I am quite certain that my information is correct.) Shultzc (talk) 20:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I recognize now that the confusion arose from not dividing the article into pre-Redstone and post-Redstone eras; I have updated my pronunciation to clarify this to a degree. Shultzc (talk) 20:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Viacom logo.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)