4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Relax. |
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0:30.0 | And now, a Blaze Media Podcast. |
0:34.0 | Hello, and welcome to chewing the fat. |
0:38.0 | Yesterday, Sumner Redstone passed away. I thought well some of the redstone is worthy of a retrospective |
0:50.3 | so this is a retrospective on chewing the fat. |
0:58.0 | Born Sumner Murray Rothstein on the 27th of May, 1993, turned Redstone in the year 1940. |
1:09.0 | Became a billionaire who as chairman of Viacom and national amusements drew headlines both for his deal-making |
1:17.2 | as well as his turbulent personal life. |
1:20.4 | At his peak, the empire included CBS and Viacom that were parents of subsidiaries ranging |
1:27.1 | from Paramount Pictures and MTV to Comedy Central and Spike TV. |
1:33.0 | While a student at Harvard during World War II, he helped break Japan's military and diplomatic codes. |
1:40.0 | Later, he taught one of the first entertainment law courses. |
1:44.9 | He began his empire by building movie theaters near shopping malls. |
1:49.9 | Frustrated by the preferences shown to studio-owned theaters, he successfully sued Hollywood |
1:55.8 | studios for the right to show first-run movies. Then decided movie production could be far more profitable than movie distribution. |
2:06.1 | Moments after viewing Star Wars in 1977, he ordered 25,000 shares in the film studio 20th century Fox. |
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