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A Look Back  at History:

Absolutely  Paramount
Many other takeover battles got the full treatment: the newspaper stories, the TV coverage, the book, the movie. Paramount’s own fight to capture Time and block its combination with Warner is often how many remember Paramount’s involvement in  a fight for corporate control. But Viacom’s fight against QVC for Paramount, the last of the great studios to come on the market, has rarely been given the attention it deserves. It was a hostile takeover with huge personalities running the show: Martin Davis at Paramount; Barry Diller at QVC; Wayne Huizenga at Blockbuster; Sumner Redstone at Viacom. The five-month battle sparked new law, new auction techniques, new financing devices, reprimands to over-zealous lawyers and a takeover within a takeover of a publishing house famous for an earlier scandal-ridden fight. Here are its stories.

 

 


Volume 13, Issue 2



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