CBS Agrees to merge with Viacom in $11.7 Billion deal
By Bloomberg
14 August 2019 |
1:40 pm
CBS Corp. agreed to merge with Viacom Inc. in an $11.7 billion transaction, capping years of on-again-off-again attempts to reunite two media giants that split in 2006. Bloomberg's Chris Palmeri reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."
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