Meet the family and heirs to Sumner Redstone's ViacomCBS media empire - Business Insider

Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone in a screening room at National Amusements.Redstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1923.

He enrolled at Harvard and graduated in three years, later becoming a US Army cryptography during World War II. After the war, he returned to Harvard for a He saw success as a lawyer, serving as a special assistant to then Attorney General Tom C. Clark and working as a partner at a law firm., a private theater chain that was started by his father. He grew the business, and by the 1980s he was using it as collateral to bid for a cable, broadcast, and entertainment business that had been spun off by CBS in the late '70s: Viacom, home of brands including MTV, Showtime, and Nickelodeon.

Sumner Redstone, the president and CEO of National Amusements, Viacom, and CBS, in October 1994, standing in Times Square in midtown Manhattan in 1994.

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Its a shame that how little attention we have paid to Sumner Redstone's death The NY Times (and BI) have very short writeups I remember in his day we would read pages and pages on him and his biz moves Did he live too long? Did we forget? This is Sumner Redstone

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