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Non-Tech : Blockbuster Inc (BBI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Binder who wrote (1)	6/27/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 12

Viacom owns Blockbuster. Paramount is a part of Viacom, and Spelling is owned by Viacom as well. Small potatoes. Trace down everything under General Electric sometime, it'll freak you out. Exercise for ambitious paranoid video store owners who are going out of business as they get squeezed out by Hollywood video and Blockbuster: Go to Blockbuster award nominations and count up number of Paramount films... blockbuster.com (I have not done this exercise, but it could be interesting) I'm sure the stock will do well. Hey, who owns MTV? Wasn't there a similar awards show just on a few weeks ago? Ideally the company which produces the awards show owns all the product which is displayed...