{"id":48115,"date":"2018-04-04T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48115"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:36:28","slug":"viacom-to-cbs-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/04\/viacom-to-cbs-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Viacom To CBS: No Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to<em> Variety<\/em>, the &#8220;special committee of the <em>Viacom<\/em> board is said to have rejected outright the acquisition bid submitted by <em>CBS<\/em>&#8216;s special committee on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>CBS<\/em> has also proposed having their <strong>Joe Ianniello<\/strong> run the combined companies, but<em> Viacom<\/em> wants their CEO <strong>Bob Bakish<\/strong> to have a role in the company and that was not on the table in<em> CBS<\/em>&#8216;s first offer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>CBS<\/em> is waiting for a formal counter-proposal, which is due by the end of this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Variety, the &#8220;special committee of the Viacom board is said to have rejected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700],"tags":[3278,3071],"class_list":["post-48115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cbs","tag-viacom"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ViacomCBSMergerTalks040318-1.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48117,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48115\/revisions\/48117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}