In response to an antitrust lawsuit, Viacom is now accusing the nation's eighth-biggest MVPD of fraud. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Viacom is ramping up its defense of an antitrust ...
March 4 (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Chief Executive Philippe Dauman criticized Cablevision Corp on Monday for filing an "ill-advised and frivolous" antitrust lawsuit against the media company, in a ...
Right on the heels of the Time Warner/Viacom debacle, Cablevision’s live TV-streaming app has now gotten caught in the crosshairs too. Viacom claims that the Cablevision iPad app does not honor ...
Feb 26 (Reuters) - Cablevision Systems Corp has accused Viacom Inc in an antitrust lawsuit of forcing it to pay for more than a dozen low-rated cable networks in order to get access to Viacom's more ...
Cablevision Systems' big anti-trust lawsuit against Viacom has drawn sharp criticism from Viacom chief executive Philippe Dauman. Dauman, president/chief executive officer of Viacom, speaking at the ...
NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected Viacom Inc's effort to dismiss Cablevision Systems Corp's antitrust lawsuit accusing it of forcing cable providers and subscribers to ...
Don't be confused: Cablevision's anti-trust suit decrying the evils of "anti-consumer" bundling by Viacom, which have pushed cable-bills up oh-so-high, has nothing to do with the frustrations ...
Have you been affected by bundling? Do you seek out smaller channels, or would you rather pay a la carte? Even if you disagree with bundling, should it be illegal? Have you been bogged down by ...
NEW YORK — Viacom, the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and other television channels, is suing cable TV distributor Cablevision over an iPad app that Viacom says streams video of its channels without ...
Cablevision Systems filed an major antitrust lawsuit today against Viacom, saying the big TV network group has forced the Long Island, N.Y.-based cable operator to carry over a dozen smaller networks ...
Cablevision Systems Corp. filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday against Viacom Inc., saying that Viacom forced it to pay for 14 cable networks it did not want. The suit said the extra channels were ...
Some good news to bring in the new year -- Viacom and Cablevision have reached a deal for carriage of some of TV's premiere channels (don't know about you, but Comedy Central and Nick are essential ...