Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: Cambiamenti strutturali nella Viacom

http://www.trektoday.com/news/190605_02.shtml
Viacom Inc., the entertainment giant that owns all aspects of Star Trek
from Paramount Pictures films, UPN television episodes, Paramount DVD
releases and Pocket Books novels, is dividing into two separately traded
companies, as its board of directors unanimously approved a split proposed
by Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone.
Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter (via Yahoo) reported on the split,
which will create CBS Corp. as a separate entity. The new company will
include both the CBS and UPN television networks, the television stations
now owned by Viacom, CBS and Paramount TV production and book publisher
Simon & Schuster, as well as cable network Showtime, Infinity Broadcasting
radio and Paramount Parks. Viacom Inc. will control Paramount Pictures,
Paramount Home Entertainment, MTV Networks, BET and Famous Music.
The split is expected to be completed in first-quarter 2006, with Redstone
retaining his position as chairman and controlling shareholder of both
entities. The new companies Viacom and CBS will be led respectively by
current Viacom co-presidents Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves, with each
expected to be named CEOs of the divisions they have supervised during
their joint tenure as co-chief operating officers of Viacom, Inc.
It is not clear at present which division will end up in control of the
Star Trek franchise. If longtime franchise leader Rick Berman's proposal
for an eleventh Star Trek feature film is accepted, that would fall under
the jurisdiction of Freston's Viacom, which will control the motion picture
studio as well as all DVD releases from Paramount Home Entertainment. On
the other hand, Paramount Television and Pocket Books - both of which have
been involved in producing Star Trek products for many years - will be
controlled by the new CBS corporation, so any future television projects
may come from them.
It is likely that joint licensing will occur, but the possibility remains
that there will be no single individual at the head of the entire Star Trek
franchise as Berman has been for the past nearly two decades. Whether movie
projects will have to go through CBS now or Paramount TV will have to
negotiate with Paramount Pictures has not been announced. Many Star Trek:
Enterprise actors have said that they felt that none of the executives at
UPN had an interest in the franchise, while Berman's proposed film remains
in the early stages of development after upheavals in the senior offices at
Paramount Pictures.
"The age of the conglomerate is over," Redstone announced. "The new Viacom
will focus on organic expansion through the creation of cutting-edge
content, unrivaled brands, specialized and highly desirable demographics
and the continuing expansion of delivery platforms. But it remains to be
seen what this will mean for its famous film-and-television franchises.
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 Paramount Pictures.
Non capisco che cosa possa contare l'opinione di attori ormai senza 
contratto, comodo confondere la fine di ENT con tutto Star Trek.
Bah.