Media Mogul Sumner M. Redstone

A Passion To Win

Media mogul Sumner M. Redstone

The winner of the Survival game

Perhaps most of people have been excited by the famous movies such as "Father", "Brave heart", "Tatanic" etc. Maybe people don't know who is the producer of these movies? They are produced by Paramount Pictures which one of the companies of the media leader-viacom.

Sumner M. Redstone who is one of the world's richest people is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom. Currently, Redstone owns seventy percent of the voting stock of Viacom. Viacom, in actuality, is a subsidiary of National Amusements, of which he owns the majority voting stock. In 2002 he was ranked #32 on Forbes magazine's list of the hundred richest people in the world, with an estimated worth of US$8.1 billion.

Under his leadership, Viacom has become one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies, and a leader in the production, promotion and distribution of entertainment, news, sports, music and comedy. Viacom played a significant role in every region of media market. Viacom's properties include CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Viacom Outdoor, Infinity Broadcasting, UPN, Spike TV, TV Land, CMT: Country Music Television, Comedy Central, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster. National Amusements, Inc., a closely held corporation which operates approximately 1,400 motion picture screens in the United States, the United Kingdom and South America, is the parent company of Viacom.

It¡¯s unbelievable that the producer of those entertainment programs is a ¡°young person¡± who is nearly 80. ¡°I almost 25 years old, a young man who is just 25¡± He always confident like this. He put all his energy into the Viacom. He always says ¡°Viacom is I, I am the Viacom, this is the permanent marriage¡± The passion that he put into Viacom is really incredible.

Sumner M. Redstone was born May 27,1923 at Sumner Murray Rothstein, and grew up in boston, Massachusetts. He attended the prestigious Boston Latin school and graduated at the top of his class, which won him a position at Harvard College. He completed his B.A. in three years when the Board of Overseers of Harvard conferred him his degree. Afterward, Redstone served in World War II, decoding Japanese messages for the United States Army. Upon completion of his Army service, he worked in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown University Law School.He chose to transfer into Harvard Law School and received his LL.