Media Influencers

Media Mogul Sumner Redstone, Who Oversaw Viacom and CBS, Dies at 97

He turned his family’s movie theater chain into a $40 billion global media powerhouse

Sumner Redstone rededicated himself to his business after getting badly burned in a 1979 hotel fire.Getty Images
By Jason Lynch

August 12, 2020

Sumner Redstone, who presided over an estimated $40 billion media empire that included both Viacom and CBS Corp, died on Tuesday. He was 97.

Jason Lynch

Jason Lynch is TV Editor at Adweek, overseeing trends, technology, personalities and programming across broadcast, cable and streaming video.

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