Sumner Redstone Dead: CBS, Viacom Media Mogul Was 97 | Hollywood Reporter
Sumner Redstone, the hard-charging mogul who parlayed his father s New England drive-in theater business into a media empire that now flows into virtually every avenue of entertainment, has died. He was 97.
Redstone was the controlling shareholder of the recently merged ViacomCBS and previously CBS Corp. and Viacom who made famous the mantra content is king.