Viacom Canada

Viacom Inc.

Viacom's headquarters at One Astor Plaza in New York City in May 2010
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: VIA Class A NASDAQ: VIAB Class B NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component (VIAB) Russell 1000 Component (VIA)
Industry	Mass media
Predecessors	Viacom (original) Gulf+Western Paramount Communications
Founded	December 31, 2005; 11 years ago (2005-12-31)
Founder	Sumner Redstone
Headquarters	One Astor Plaza, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. Columbia Square, Hollywood, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Sumner Redstone (Chairman Emeritus) Thomas J. May (Chairman) Robert Bakish (President and CEO)
Products	Cable television, broadcasting, radio, publishing, movies, and web portals
Revenue	US$12.488 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$2.526 billion (2016)
Profit	US$1.438 billion (2016)
Total assets	US$22.51 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$4.54 billion (2016)
Owner	National Amusements (80%)
Number of employees	10,580 (2011)
Divisions	Viacom Media Networks Viacom International Media Networks
Subsidiaries	Bellator MMA BET Networks Defy Media (7%) Paramount Pictures Rainbow S.r.l. (30%) Viacom 18 (50%) Viacom International MTV Nickelodeon
Website	www.viacom.com

Viacom Inc. (VY-ə-kom) is an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in cinema and cable television. It is currently the world's sixth largest broadcasting and cable company in terms of revenue—behind Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox and CBS Corporation. Voting control of Viacom is held by National Amusements, Inc., a privately owned theater company controlled by the billionaire Sumner Redstone. Redstone also holds – via National Amusements – a controlling stake in CBS Corporation.

The current incarnation of Viacom was created on December 31, 2005 as a spin-off from the original incarnation of Viacom, which was renamed as CBS Corporation after the spin-off. CBS Corporation currently retains control of the over-the-air broadcasting, TV production, subscription pay television (with Showtime Networks) and publishing assets (with Simon & Schuster), which were previously owned by the original Viacom. Predecessor firms of the original Viacom included Gulf+Western (which later became Paramount Communications) and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Comprising BET Networks, Viacom Media Networks and Paramount Pictures, the current Viacom operates approximately 170 networks, reaching approximately 700 million subscribers in approximately 160 countries.