# Viacom streaming service.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacom-streaming-service/843516 "2019-11-16T00:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![CastletonSnob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacom-streaming-service/843516/1 "2019-11-16T00:26:42Z")

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Viacom should make their own streaming service. They might not own quite as much stuff as Disney, but they still have a huge library.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacom-streaming-service/843516/2 "2019-11-16T01:06:51Z")

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What’s in their library and how much of it is already contracted out? I suspect a lot of their more valuable properties are currently contracted out to the other Streaming Services.

Disney has a lot of timeless stuff and a huge chunk of the most popular movies of the last decade.

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**Author:** ![CastletonSnob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacom-streaming-service/843516/3 "2019-11-16T01:19:13Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> What’s in their library and how much of it is already contracted out? I suspect a lot of their more valuable properties are currently contracted out to the other Streaming Services.
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> Disney has a lot of timeless stuff and a huge chunk of the most popular movies of the last decade.

Viacom owns Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, and will soon merge with CBS.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viacom-streaming-service/843516/4 "2019-11-16T01:23:46Z")

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> [@CastletonSnob](#):
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> Viacom owns Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, and will soon merge with CBS.

[They just entered a multi-year deal for Nick with Netflix.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/business/media/netflix-nickelodeon-spongebob-squarepants.html?auth=login-google&login=google) Comedy Central has South Park and that is about it, The Daily Show has been streaming for over decade. MTV stuff has a fairly short shelf life. I might enjoy some of those old cartoon series from the late 80s/early 90s.

CBS is already streaming, so there you go, they can add more Viacom stuff to CBS’s streaming. [CBS All-Access](https://www.cbs.com/all-access/?gclsrc=aw.ds&&ref= __iv_p_1_g_14827528327_w_aud-417233795193:kwd-1434497122_h_9003680_ii__ d_c_v __n_g_c_186362844650_l__ t __e__ r_1t1_vi__&ftag=AAM03c5ced&vndid=google$null$null$cbs%20streaming&gclid=Cj0KCQiAtrnuBRDXARIsABiN-7AE42XJlVO8vNDL7ZLurTfkovN4o4jgYaQKXIjUtc-YSy129CNPKc0aAmHdEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&_ivgu=ae0b7d3c-92dc-4be1-923e-f39dec363a8a).