Charlie Rose with Frank Keating; Tom Freston, Tabitha Soren, Christopher John Farley & Joe Dolce; Brian Moore (August 1, 1996)
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Tom Freston, the 64-year-old MTV co-founder and former Viacom honcho, has among his hobbies these days the career development of a 30-year-old African singer named Ilo Ferreira, who goes by Ilo….How’d they get to know, and fund, him? “It was an amazing set of circumstances,” Buffett says backstage at Joe’s. “Freston gets fired and he doesn’t...
Company Town (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Maybe this is why Oprah Winfrey's network is taking so long. Instead of hunkering down on a strategy and launch date, Winfrey's top advisor on the cable channel -- former Viacom and MTV chief Tom Freston -- is busy throwing...
Company Town (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Discovery Communications' board of directors held its quarterly meeting today but anyone looking for news about Oprah Winfrey and her cable network was sorely disappointed. While some of the cable programming giants top executives made glowing presentations to the board, neither Winfrey nor her svengali Tom Freston were anywhere to be seen around Discovery's headquarters in Silver Spring, Md....
Company Town (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... report to OWN Chief Executive Christina Norman, a former top MTV executive, who was brought in by Tom Freston, the ex-MTV and ex-Viacom chief who is working as an advisor to the channel. The move appears to signal that Winfrey might be close to announcing an official end date for her syndicated talk show that runs on ABC. Winfrey is under contract to produce the show through May 2011, which...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Reception in New York (21 September 2009) Each continent has its Friends of the Global Fund. For her first appearance as Ambassador of the Global Fund on American soil, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was received by Tom Freston and Peter Chernin at a reception of US Superfriends of the Global Fund to fight ...
