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A media proprietor, also called a media executive, media mogul or media tycoon, is an entrepreneur who controls any means of public or commercial mass media, through the personal ownership or holding of a dominant position within a media conglomerate or enterprise.
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG ( / ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor.
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Redstone was born Sumner Murray Rothstein in 1923 in Boston to Belle (née Ostrovsky) and Michael Rothstein. Sumner is a second-generation Bostonian; his father Michael was born in Boston in 1902 to Galician Jewish parents originally from Kozova, a shtetl in Austro-Hungarian land now in Ukraine. His mother Bella was also an American-born child of Je...
Legal career
After completing law school, Redstone moved to San Francisco to become a clerk with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a job that then paid $43 per week. While employed by the Ninth Circuit, Redstone also taught labor law courses in the evenings at University of San Francisco School of Law. Beginning in 1948, Redstone joined the United States Department of Justice Tax Division as a staff attorney with the appellate tax division, in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme...
Northeast Theatre Corporation
In 1954, he joined his father's theater chain Northeast Theatre Corporation, which then had fourteen drive-in theaters in five eastern states. The Redstone family re-incorporated Northeast Theatre Corporation and their other businesses as National Amusements in 1959 in order to access more money to finance expansion; Redstone would invest nearly $18,000 in stock and be named vice president. In 1964, Redstone was elected president of the Theater Owners of America, which would merge with a riva...
Viacom
As a hedge against slow growth in movie theaters, Redstone began buying stock in Viacom International in 1985. Viacom spun off from CBS in 1971 after the FCC ruled at the time that television networks could not syndicate their own programs. Viacom initially syndicated CBS network shows such as Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, and I Love Lucy. Viacom also owned MTV Networks (formerly known as Warner-AMEX Satellite Entertainment), which owned MTV and Nickelodeon. In addition, other properties included...
Redstone's autobiography, A Passion to Win (co-written with author Peter Knobler), was published in 2001 by Viacom's Simon & Schuster. This book details Redstone's life from a young boy in Boston to the difficult takeover of Viacom and the problems he overcame in purchasing and managing both Blockbuster Video and Paramount Pictures. The book also r...
A longtime Democratic supporter, with a history of donating to many Democratic campaigns, including regular donations to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Redstone endorsed Republican George W. Bush over Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, allegedly because he argued that Bush would be better for his compa...
Redstone contributed over $150 million to various philanthropic causes. 1. In April 2007, Redstone announced a commitment of $105 million in charitable grants to fund research and patient care advancements in cancer and burn recovery at three major non-profit healthcare organizations. The cash contributions of $35 million were each paid out over fi...
Redstone married Phyllis Gloria Raphael on July 4, 1947. They had two children: Brent Redstone and Shari Redstone. In 1999, they divorced when Phyllis Raphael served Sumner Redstone a 3 billion dollar divorce lawsuit which accused the mogul of adultery and cruelty. Sumner was seen with Hollywood producer Christine Peters in Paris and was quoted as ...
Auletta, Ken. The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway. New York: Random House, 1997. ISBN 978-0-307-79985-2. OCLC 773578395.Redstone, Sumner. "Toward More Equitable Determination of Tax Liability by Averaging of Income: An Historical and Analytical Approach to Problems of Averaging". 1947. OCLC 83849763. Harvard Law Sch...Redstone, Sumner, and Peter Knobler. A Passion to Win: An Autobiography. London: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-86224-8. OCLC 46695350.Hagey, Keach (2018). The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062654090.Sumner Redstone at IMDbSumner Redstone at Viacom, Inc.Appearances on C-SPAN- 1944–1945
21 de mar. de 2024 · Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who founded (1979) the global media holding company News Corp. It mainly focused on publishing after its media and television holdings were spun off (2013) as 21st Century Fox and largely sold (2019).
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21 de sept. de 2023 · The Australian-born mogul ventured into media in 1952 when he inherited his family’s business after the death of his father, Keith Murdoch. A 21-year-old Oxford student, he inherited The News...
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