But the split, in which Viacom kept the cable networks and film studios while the broadcasting businesses were spun off as CBS, was widely seen as Mr Redstone's last hurrah.

不过业界广泛认为这是雷石东的最后努力。这次分割让维亚康姆保留有线电视网络和电影制片厂，而广播业务则剥离出来组建新的哥伦比亚广播电视公司(CBS)。

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It is much more profitable to stream a film digitally or sell it through a cable operator as a video-on-demand (VOD).

使电影数字化流动或通过有线电视运营商点播(VOD)来销售电影会更加有利可图。

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For the studios it is much more profitable to stream a film digitally or sell it through a cable operator as a video-on-demand (VOD).

对制片厂而言，电影数字化或卖给有线电视运营商作视频点播(VOD)用，利润更为可观。

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Time Warner's properties include popular magazines (Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Asiaweek among them), music, film and cable-TV programming, yet the company has failed to build a large audience on the Net.

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Behind the Candelabra's director Steven Soderbergh provoked a fierce debate when he said he had to take the film to the cable station HBO because Hollywood's studios believed it was "too gay".

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Viacom owns Paramount, the film studio, and cable channels like MTV and Nickelodeon.

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