Posted on 09/15/2004 5:54:13 AM PDT by watsonfellow
The following is a list of the board of directors at Viacom...how do we find out contact info?
George Abrahms is an attorney with Winer and Abrams. Also a director of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation.
David Andelman is an attorney with Lourie and Cutler. Also a director of Lourie & Cutler, Downeast Food Distributors and Louisiana Marine Transport.
George H. Conrades, partner in Polaris Venture Partners and CEO of Akamai Technologies. Also on the boards of Cardinal Health, the Scripps Research Institute and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Philippe P. Dauman, co-chair and CEO of DND Capital Partners, L.L.C. Also on the boards of The Museum of the City of New York, the Board of Visitors of olumbia Law School, Genuity Inc., Spelling Entertainment Group and the Lafarge Corporation.
William H. Gray III, president and CEO of The College Fund/UNCF. Former majority Whip of the US House of Representatives. Also on the boards of of The Chase Manhattan Bank, Dell Corporation, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Ezgov.com, J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., MBIA Inc., Pfizer Inc., The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Rockwell International Corporation and Visteon Corporation.
Mel Karmazin, president and cheif operating officer. Chair, President and CEO of Infinity Broadcasting Corp. Also on the boards of the Museum of Television and Radio and the New York Stock Exchange.
Jan Leschly, chair and chief executive officer of the private equity firm Care Capital. Also serves on the International Advisory Board of DaimlerChrysler and is a member of the Business Council and Chairman of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Director at American Express, The Maersk Group and Ventro Corporation.
David T. McLaughlin, chair of Orion Safety Products. Chairman of the Aspen I nstitute until 1997 and president of Dartmouth College from 1981 to 1987. Also on the boards of Atlas Air, Inc. and PartnerRe Ltd.
Ken Miller, vice chair of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation. Also on the boards of New York City Investment Partnership, Refugees International and United Nations Association.
Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS. Also on the boards of the NCAA Foundation, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation, the Los Angeles Free Clinic, the Board of Governors of UCLA Center for Communications Policy, the Executive Board of the UCLA Medical Center and is a trustee of the National Council for Families and Television and the American Film Institute.
Brent D. Redstone, director.
Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements. Also on the board of the National Association of Theatre Owners, MovieTickets.com, CineBridge Ventures, Inc., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Combined Jewish Philanthropies and Tufts University and Brandeis University.
Sumner M. Redstone, chair of the board and CEO. Also on the board of the Museum of Television and Radio, and the National Association of Theaater Owners.
Frederic V. Salerno, vice chair and chief financial officer of Verizon Communications. Also on the boards of Avnet Inc. and The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.
William Schwartz, counsel to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Ivan Seidenberg, president and co-CEO of Verizon. Also serves on the boards of American Home Products Corporation, Boston Properties, Inc., CVS Corporation and Honeywell International.
Patty Stonesifer, co-chair and president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Also on the board of Amazon.com.
Robert D. Walter, chair and CEO of Cardinal Health, Inc. Also on the boards of Bank One Corporation, Battelle Memorial Institute and Ohio University.
A list of the Board of Directors - with phone numbers. I like that. I think some BOD's need a few calls today!
VIACOM BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
George S. Abrams
Winer & Abrams
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-526-6539
617-526-5000 fax
David R. Andelman
Lourie & Cutler
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-742-6720
617-742-5720 fax
dandelman@louriecutler.com
Joseph Califano
Chairman & President
The National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse
633 Third Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-841-5200
212-956-8020 fax
William S. Cohen
The Cohen Group
1200 19th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
202-689-7900
202-689-7910 fax
Phillipe P. Dauman
Co-Chairman & CEO
DND Capital Partners
(need help here)
Alan C. Greenberg
Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
212-272-2000
212-272-4785 fax
Jan Leschly
Chairman and Partner
Care Capital, LLC
47 Hulfish Street, Suite 310
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-683-8300
609-683-5787 fax
Shari Redstone
President
National Amusements, Inc.
200 Elm Street
Dedham, MA 02026
781-461-1600
781-407-0052 fax
Frederic V. Salerno
Chairman
Lynch Interactive Corporation
401 Theodore Fremd Avenue
Rye, NY 10580
914-921-8821
914-921-6410 fax
William Schwartz
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLC
100 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
212-504-6399
212-504-6666 fax
Patricia Q. Stonesifer
Co-Chairperson & President
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
206-709-3100
info@gatesfoundation.org
Robert D. Walter
Chairman & CEO
Cardinal Health, Inc.
7000 Cardinal Place
Dublin, OH 43017
614-757-5000
If you just contact the advertisers of your LOCAL CBS affiliate, I'm sure the directors will get the message.
What you just posted, about their duty and obligation to shareholders, is part of a legal ethical requirement they have as a result of Enron.
It is called the Sarbanes-Oxley Amendment.
Hey, I called a couple of these directors, and you can actually get these people or their secretaries or their voicemail.
Please call and give them hell. Make them pay the price for this conspiracy to defraud the public and bring down a President--until they make Dan Rather pay the price.
also
write a nice letter to the general manager of your local cbs affiliate. explain that you have determined that falsehoods included in cbs network news programs broadcast by the station are not in the public interest.. explain that you believe that this is something that should be taken into consideration when their license comes up for renewal. close the letter by saying that you therefore request that this letter be placed in the station's public file.
these are powerful code words. "not in the public interest" is the grounds for challenging a license. the "public file" is a file of consumer comments which the station by law must maintain. it is provided to and inspected by the f.c.c.
if you want to be really mean cc the letter to:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Complaints
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
It may be in the best interest of CBS News and Dan Rather to stonewall and lie but it is not in the best interest of VIACOM empire.
The Board of Directors can be held legally responsible if they fail the stockholders.
Done yesterday. I wrote the FCC and cc's WGCL Atlanta. I wasn't nice though.
since Viacom is probably in most of our 401ks, Fidelity, Vanguard, etc., we are all shareholders, intentionally or not.
Phillippe P. Dauman
DND Capital Partners LLC
9 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 891-6580
Far, far better is to attack your local CBS affiliate who carried the Rather filth. Threaten to oppose the extension of their license the next time it is up for renewal by the FCC. Threaten to write to the FEC asking for civil penalties against the local station for running political messages pretending to be news (Rather's nightly "defense" is clearly that).
The affiliates can bring far more pressure on CBS and Viacom that a flood of letters. The affiliates can apply pressure; your letters just prove folks are watching/talking about CBS.
Woaaahhh there horsey, contacting the local affiliates is a VERY effective means to change CBS, but under Sarbanes-Oxley do NOT discount the effectiveness of director contact.
Unlike Union Contract negotiations, these guys have PERSONAL LIABILITY for shareholder equity. LEGAL liability as of Sarbanes. So simply let them know that while a "coming clean" might diminish some shareholder equity in the short term, that the longer this controversy continues, in the face of all of the damning evidence, the worse for shareholder equity.
Acting now, while possibly negatively impacting shareholder equity in the very near term, also removed the liability because while shareholders may not be happy, the Board has moved quickly to restore the reputation and integrity of CBS which is ALWAYS in shareholders, AND THE PUBLIC'S interests.
And if they do not act to correct the malaise at CBS, they can be personally liable for any loss in shareholder equity so long as the controversy is not resolved.
They have a DUTY to act.
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