Viacom - Why They're Hated

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Viacom is a large media company that has received a lot of hatred over the past few decades. This video attempts to explain the reasons behind it.

To be clear, this company has been renamed a few times, currently called Paramount Global. But that would have been a confusing/misleading title for the video, so I just stuck with Viacom to keep it simple.

[stevea]

That's an easy one to answer. They've made a total mess out of what was once a great network, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite.

I can't speak to the daytime side, but a return to their heyday is the answer for nighttime. Have the twenty-somethings study old tapes of the innovative things they were doing years ago, and try to replicate it.

[Merry24]

I fully agree what they did to NICKELODEON/NICK at NITE

[tenter]

I think it might be because of Paramount layoffs that happened last February.

Nickelodeon daytime has been airing mostly SpongeBob and movies, and no other shows reruns. Even new episodes aired and no reruns afterwards.

Nicktoons literally have become 24/7 SpongeBob channel that started May 31, nonstop!

TeenNick has been a mess due to cartoons invade lineup, even The Loud House!

[Hawkee]

If there was ever an award for weakest television production company in history it would certainly go to Viacom because when they first started out in the 60's/70's they were the top production company for television shows. But it wasn't until the 80's that Viacom was showing signs of weakness because it seemed that every single 80's show produced by Viacom would get cancelled for no reason and many people disliked Viacom because of the treatment they gave shows in syndication and I cannot see how they completed with Lorimar Television and Dick Clark Productions when those two production companies were big in 80's television shows. But I think and do agree that when they bought MTV and Nickelodeon and Nick At Nite and TV Land they ruined their image. Because before Nickelodeon and MTV and Nick At Nite and TV Land were bought by Viacom Nickelodeon and MTV were great channels along with TV Land. But I think when Viacom bought TV Land as well as Nickelodeon and MTV you could tell that they had changed direction. For example TV Land got ruined by sticking 90's and 2000's reruns of sitcoms and making an odd choice in having reruns of Steve Harvey's Family Feud and by adding reruns of Extreme Makeover Home Edition and this new image drew viewers of TV Land away from them because when it first came out TV Land was a spinoff of Nick At Nite and showed classic sitcoms and showed retro commercials but as soon as Viacom got their hands on them TV Land was ruined. And the same thing happened to Nick At Nite when they added reruns of sitcoms like The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air and Home Improvement and George Lopez and this image was far from the original classic sitcom image Nick At Nite had in the 80's. And if you look at Nickelodeon when Viacom bought them I think Viacom was trying to be like Disney by turning Nickelodeon into a Disney-like channel and company by having Nickelodeon sections in Paramount Parks and if you look at Nickelodeon they have hotels and a theme park in Minnesota's Mall Of America replacing Camp Snoopy and I think Nickelodeon in general copied Walt Disney World and Disneyland and if you are looking at the top characters of Nickelodeon their top characters are Spongebob Squarepants Paw Patrol and now The Loud House characters and this is part of Viacom changing Nickelodeon's image. Before Viacom Nickelodeon was a variety channel with cartoons sitcoms game shows and almost everything else you can name. And Viacom also ruined MTV's original image from being an all music video channel to a reality show channel with shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom and I'm surprised MTV is still existing today. But when it comes to production companies Viacom is one of the weakest links in TV production companies

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Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content On Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites​

The sites, formerly home to a trove of clips and other related materials, now redirect users to Paramount+.

Following the unexpected shuttering of the MTV News website earlier this week, Paramount has now largely cleaned house on the sites for several more of its cable channels, in a potential cost-cutting move.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the sites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Network and TV Land were instead directing users to the media conglomerate’s streaming platform Paramount+. On Monday, MTVnews.com was taken down, purging some 20 years of stories from the web.

A pop-up window on the Comedy Central site reads, “While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows.” Similar language shows up on the CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land sites, as well as that of MTV (which was separate from MTVnews.com).

Paramount said in a statement, “As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows.”
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As noted by LateNighter, the cleaning out of the Comedy Central site in particular wipes out a huge trove of archival material from The Daily Show and other late-night series, along with clips from South Park, Key & Peele and Workaholics, among many others. Some of that material is available on YouTube, but it’s not as easily searchable or accessible as it was on the network page. (The oldest video on the Daily ShowYouTube channel, for instance, is from 2016, while the show’s history stretches back 20 years before then.)

On Paramount+, only the two most recent seasons of The Daily Show are available. The platform has several South Parkspecials and the 1999 feature film Bigger, Longer and Uncut, but the show’s primary streaming home is on Max. Paramount+ does have the full runs of Key & Peele and Workaholics.

As of publication time, sites for Paramount’s BET, Nickelodeon and VH1 were still active, while MTV.com offered some episodes and clips.

The website changes come on the heels of Paramount’s co-CEOs — George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins — telling employees at a town hall meeting Tuesday that they were embarking on a cost-cutting mission as profits have dropped for the company. Paramount is looking for $500 million in reduced costs, which will mean layoffs for some employees. Cheeks also said at the town hall that “We’re looking at selling certain Paramount-owned assets — in fact, we’ve already hired bankers to assist us in this process — and we’ll use the proceeds to help pay down debt and strengthen our balance sheet.”

[Dude111]

Viacom really sucks!!