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MTV Networks carried a high energy, star-studded message to the advertising community in its first-ever joint upfront Tuesday night: That message: buy us as a cross-channel network. "We're asking you ...

MTV Networks has signed Unilever’s AXE Hair, launching a massive on-air programming drive in support of the AXE Hair Crisis Relief campaign across MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Spike. The effort is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author and former MTV Networks and Viacom CEO Tom Freston joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Unplugged: Adventures from ...

MTV networks North has pioneered an integrated content management concept, spurring other MTV facilities to follow suit. Richard Dean heads into the MTV cloud. When Mark Knopfler added the hook line ...

MTV programming prexy Tony DiSanto has found a new Situation. After more than 20 years at the cabler, DiSanto and longtime lieutenant Liz Gateley are teaming to form a production shingle dubbed DiGa.

In Freston’s globe-spanning memoir Unplugged, out this month, he traces his journey from free-spirited wanderer to co-founder of MTV and, eventually, CEO of Viacom. It blends personal history with a ...

MTV Networks has acquired Social Project, Inc., its partner in building the Flux social media platform. Flux allows users to share and interact with content across a growing network of more than 1,000 ...

MTV Networks will invest US$230 million in advertising on its cable television networks as part of its investment in the Rhapsody America venture it launched Tuesday with RealNetworks Inc.

As young people increasingly tune out television and tune into online video and chat, MTV Networks is hoping to win their attention with a new broadband service that appears part MTV, part YouTube and ...

The bloodletting drew victims at MTV Networks on Tuesday as staffers at VH1 Classic and MTV2 were let go. In a move that will shift many of the programming responsibilities for the two spinoff nets ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - You won't find clips of comedian Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" and MTV's "Pimp My Ride" on YouTube any more, but Viacom Inc. is laying the groundwork for its videos to be available ...