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I noticed that the Comedy Central web-site has no mention that I could find that they are owned by Viacom. There is a small mention buried in the FAQ that they are owned by MTV. I couldn’t find any mention on the MTV site that they are owned by Viacom other than the Jobs link that takes you to jobhuntweb.viacom.com.

I did a query on Google- “site:mtv.com viacom” which turned up 1000s of hits. But a bit of investigation shows that most of those only links pointing to those pages, it doesn’t actually say viacom on the MTV pages.

I wonder if these outfits are don’t want to be as associated with the entity biting that hand that has contributed to their growth lately. I think there is good evidence that the Daily Show and Colbert Report for example, two of Comedy Central’s key shows have benefited greatly from YouTube.

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