retro television shows with appeal for baby boomers. Nick at Nite features shows from the eighties such as ôThe Cosby Showö and ôWhoÆs The Boss,ö while TV Land shows programs from the fifties and sixties, such as ôMr. Edö and ôI Love Lucyö Nickelodeon shows cartoons for kids.
Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI) owns several premium television networks, including Showtime, The Movie Channel, FLIX, and a 30% interest in Robert RedfordÆs Sundance Channel (ôViacom Overviewö). Showtime Pay-Per-View is also the vehicle through which SNI produces, markets, and distributes major sports and entertainment events to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis (ôViacom Overviewö).
BET, or Black Entertainment Television, has 90 million subscribers and is the largest national cable network for African-Americans (ôViacom Overviewö). It includes two digital networks alsoùBET Jazz and BET Gospel (ôViacom Overviewö). It also owns BET Pictures, which produces made-for-TV movies and documentaries (ôViacom Overviewö).
Comedy Central airs such favorites as ôThe Daily Showö and ôSouth Parkö as well as movie comedies, and features games and videos on its Internet site, www.comedycentral.com.
In its other media, Viacom owns Simon & Schusterùa publishing company, Paramount Parkùa theme park, Infinity Broadcastingùthe operator of 180 radio stations, Paramount Picturesùone of the first major motion picture studios, and CBSùone of the first television stations in America (ôViacom Overviewö).
With all of these holdings, Viacom is a media giant, and students interested in pursuing a career in the media industry are eager to see what goes on there. Fortunately, MTV offers an MTV Networks Internship program that allows college students to work at MTV, exposing them to all levels of MTV Networks (ôInternships @ MTV Networksö). My internship took place at New Line Cinema (NLC), which is the entertainment industryÆs lead...