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Another U.S. media mega-merger

NEW YORK – They’ve been together before, essentially share the same owner and a new merger has been rumoured for a very long time, but Viacom and CBS finally decided to get back together this week.Its brands and channels (traditional and online) feature, according to the release announcing the merger:A library of 140,000 TV episodes and 3,600+ film titlesProduction capabilities across five continents, including more than 750 series ordered to or in production, with more than $13 billion spent on productions in the last 12 monthsGlobal reach of more than 4.3 billion cumulative TV subscribers in over 180 countries#1 share...