Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit
The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks’ Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision Inc. for supremacy in the world of rock and roll video games. The deal, which is set to be announced Thursday by Viacom’s MTV and the band’s
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Start the countdown clock on MTV’s countdown era: “Total Request Live” will soon shut down after 10 years on the air. The music video show will conclude in a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of “TRL,” said Monday. He
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MTV launches global HD service
MTV’s new global high-definition service, MTV Networks HD, will bow Sept. 15 with six European countries taking the web. The 24-hour channel, which includes a Nickelodeon-branded block, is to launch in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Owners Viacom plans to roll out the English-language
MTV readies ‘Rocky Horror’ redux
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Hollywood blaze doesn’t stop MTV Movie Awards. Transformers, Johnny Depp take home popcorn.
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Juno and Superbad rule the MTV Movie Award Nominations
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