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JUNE 2018
Music Broadcaster Viva Will Become History From VIP-Daily News of the company at the beginning of 2019.
competitor for MTV. The company undertook
Once operating from offices in Austria,
an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 2000 on
Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands and
the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and was then
Poland, the media company has gradually
taken over in 2004 by Viacom.
downsized in recent years being replaced by Comedy Central, as well a branch of Viacom,
Killed off by Youtube and Facebook some
Launched 1993, to be gone in 2019.
the mother ship of MTV.
might conclude, confirming that the market
Viacom, the latest owner of Viva TV,
The media enterprise was started in Cologne
and youth relevant content is definitely done
announced the closure of all media outlets
and for a couple of years became a serious
and gone.
for a TV station focused exclusively on music
Haim fired agent over pay gap at festival From VIP-Daily News All-female band Haim say they fired an
one in the UK album charts, the band have
Talking about sexism and prejudice they
agent after discovering they were paid just
played festivals including Glastonbury and
have faced during their career, the sisters
a tenth of the amount of a male artist on
Coachella.
told the magazine that many people
the same bill at a festival.
struggle to accept that they play their own Drawing
favourable
comparisons
with
instruments and write their own songs.
The US rock group - made up of sisters
1970s band Fleetwood Mac, the sisters
Este, Danielle and Alana - called the pay
have rejected the label “girl band” and
Alana, the youngest of the sisters, said: “I
gap “insane”.
say they want to be recognised simply as
still get so many people asking me, `So who
musicians.
really writes your songs?”
The sisters told Grazia: “We had been told that our fee was very low because you played at the festival in the hope you`d get played on the radio. “We didn`t think twice about it, but we later found out that someone was getting paid 10 times more than us. And because of that we fired our agent.” The Grammy-nominated group called the disparity of pay “f****d up”, but did not name the festival nor the male artist. Since the success of their 2013 album Days Are Gone, which reached number
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