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An MTV Mogul’s Wild Tales: From Sex Clubs with Sumner Redstone to Advising David Ellison
#TV #TVFeatures #Bono #Books #ComedyCentral #DavidEllison #MTV #Paramount #ShaneSmith #SumnerRedstone #TomFreston #Viacom #Vice

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/mtv-tom-freston-book-unplugged-sex-clubs-sumner-redstone-david-ellison-1236428178/

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller
#Executives #News #BarryDiller #JohnMalone #PaleyCenterforMedia #ParamountPictures #SumnerRedstone

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848/

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller
#Executives #News #BarryDiller #JohnMalone #PaleyCenterforMedia #ParamountPictures #SumnerRedstone

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848/

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller
#Executives #News #BarryDiller #JohnMalone #PaleyCenterforMedia #ParamountPictures #SumnerRedstone

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848/

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller
#Executives #News #BarryDiller #JohnMalone #PaleyCenterforMedia #ParamountPictures #SumnerRedstone

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848/

Sumner Redstone Has Street Named After Him In New York’s Times Square
#Executives #News #NewYorkCity #Paramountglobal #ShariRedstone #SumnerRedstone #TimesSquare

https://deadline.com/2024/10/sumner-redstone-paramount-new-york-street-named-after-him-times-square-1236106094/

Matthew Perry’s Drug Dealer Was Once Scarlett Johansson’s Director and ‘Surreal Life’ Producer
#Business #BusinessNews #Ketamine #MatthewPerry #ScarlettJohansson #SumnerRedstone

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/matthew-perry-killer-drug-dealer-scarlett-johansson-director-1235976422/

CJ Group’s Miky Lee to Give USC School of Cinematic Arts Commencement Address
#MovieNews #Movies #Jamesgray #JayRoach #Parasite #SumnerRedstone #USC

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cj-group-miky-lee-usc-commencement-address-1235875540/

As opposed to the legalization of #SumnerRedstone's feelings about his daughter & #LilianeBettencourt's obsession with her photographer:
May the years-long #US music sector crash be due to judicial denial of evidence that #MichaelJackson's last will stands violated?
#CoolICanWait

Jonathan Dolgen, Longtime Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman, Dies at 78
#Business #BusinessNews #Obituaries #Paramount #SherryLansing #SumnerRedstone #Viacom

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/jonathan-dolgen-dead-viacom-1235614396/

Sumner Redstone: book reveals media mogul’s ‘astonishing saga of sex, lies and betrayal’

"a new account of the career of media mogul #SumnerRedstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, reveals just how awful, shocking and abusive that culture was at one of America’s biggest media empires."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/18/sumner-redstone-family-viacom-unscripted-book #books @bookstodon #media

Though it's often misattributed to Bill Gates, Sumner Redstone popularised the phrase "content is king" which was used in a 1974 book, and pre-dates even that.

https://lgkmarketingcc.com/content-king-said-better/

The book seems to be J. W. Click, Russell N. Baird, Magazine Editing and Production. W. C. Brown Company, 1974, 274 pages

https://www.worldcat.org/title/magazine-editing-and-production/oclc/1009138

https://books.google.com/books?id=lMpHwLnvsvAC&q=%22content+is+king%22&dq=%22content+is+king%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwiLK2q5brAhVOK80KHdbBDu0Q6AEILTAB

Earlier appearances in the 1960s refer to educational films:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/toward-improved-learning-a-collection-of-significant-reprints-for-the-medical-educator/oclc/855419713

https://books.google.com/books?id=LiQgAQAAMAAJ&q=%22content+is+king%22&dq=%22content+is+king%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi87Kaoq5brAhUYCs0KHdwWC2QQ6AEIMDAB

Aguments over provenance notwithstanding, my view is that the aphorism is a convenient bit of stage distraction attractive to media monopolists themselves aware of the real truth: network control is emperor.

And this goes beyond just getting the proprietor's cut, the vigorish, skimming your 5, or 10, or 30%.

Central control of a network means deciding what that network is. Where it begins, where it ends, what goes in, what comes out, who can receive, who can send, what interactions are possible, speeds and latencies, what messages are heard, what are not, who pays, who gets paid, who plays for free.

These factors are wholly ignored by contemporary US (Borkian) antitrust doctrine.

It's not just the vig.

#ContentIsKing #NetworkIsEmperor #SumnerRedstone #media #power #monopoly #obituary