#2 Viacom
Viacom owns so many media and entertainment properties they can’t all fit on one page. It operates over 170 networks reaching 700 million subscribers in 160 countries. Among their largest networks are legendary Hollywood film studio Paramount Pictures, the entire CBS network, music channels MTV, BET and VH1, pay TV service Showtime and the influential children’s TV network Nickelodeon. The company also owns legendary book publisher Simon & Schuster as well as one of the nations largest outdoor advertising networks, CBS Outdoor. The whole empire is controlled by one man – powerful billionaire Sumner Redstone.
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