Viacom Inc and CBS Corporation have completed their merger, first agreed in August. Shares in the new company, ViacomCBS, will begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market in New York today. The merger reunites the CBS businesses including the CBS network, Showtime and CBS Studios with Viacom's stable of pay TV channels, the Paramount studios and international free-to-air services. Channels and Programming Intelligence will add coverage of the newly merged company from the start of next year.
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Tim Westcott
Senior Research Manager
Tim manages the analyst teams behind Omdia’s coverage of channels and programming and advertising. Channels and programming monitors evolving channel revenue streams and TV and video production and distribution. The advertising service tracks revenue from all media types, with a particularly strong focus on the fast-developing online and addressable advertising space.
Tim joined Omdia’s predecessor company Screen Digest in 2004, where his areas of focus included TV production, animation, sports rights, and public broadcasting. He also edited more than 100 editions of the monthly Media and Technology Digest (formerly Screen Digest). Before that, Tim worked at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg, France, and in a variety of journalism roles including the Financial Times Group, EMAP (now Ascential), and Television Business International. He holds a Master of Arts (Hons.) degree in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. He speaks fluent French and is based in London.
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