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 | | Mel Karmazin resigned as President and Chief Operating Officer on June 1,2004,and it was announced that these offices would be jointly held by 58-year-old Tom Freston and 53-year-old Leslie Moonves,who had headed the MTV Networks and CBS units respectively. |
 | | In 1971, the division was renamed Viacom International, and in 1973 it was spun off, amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies. |
 | | As of this writing, CBS's production unit and King World (which has since absorbed Eyemark) are operating under their own names, as parts of CBS, and no attempt has been made thus far to move them around in Viacom's corporate structure; however, TNN and CMT were merged into MTV Networks almost immediately. |
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