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  • Viacom has 1.6 star rating based on 11 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.

  • 20% of users would likely recommend Viacom to a friend or colleague.

  • Rating Distribution
  • Pros: Unsatisfactory.
    Cons: Customer service, No customer service, Tv show commercial selection after full house.

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William D Kre
map-marker Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Very Bad

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Called Viacom three diffrent times and arranged appointment for them to come out and hook up. Viacom cancelled all three times just the afternoon before except the last time and they called the hour they were supposed to be there and cancelled and the lady who called LAUGHED about it. I would never reccoemend this company.

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Cons:
  • No customer service
Reason of review:
Poor customer service
D. L
map-marker Verona, Wisconsin

Hate to see THE HILLS all @!@! week on MTV classic.

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June 24th till JULY 1ST 201* ** - * . Didn't like THE HILLS back in the 2000 s .

If you needed to show it over and over so some people need to be caught up to show so they under stand this show then do it on another channel. LEAVE MY MTV CLASSICS FOR MUSIC ALONE PLEASE. That's what I pay high cable bills for.

This company got RID of VH1 MUSIC . What else can VIOCOM SREW UP!!!

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Loss:
$100
Reason of review:
lost week of my short life for a week.

Preferred solution: Dont mess with my MVT CLASSICS.

Anonymous

Viacom employee & prostitution in company van

Viacom employee & prostitution in company van

This employee visited a known *** while using his Viacom service van. He spent the whole night there.

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Teri L Wph

MTV continued airing of Teen Moms 2 after dog murder by David Evans

This MTV show should be pulled off the air immediately. One of the families tortured, then murdered their dog because it nipped at their little girl's face. The offending persons chose to video the nipping incident, instead of intervening to help the child. David Evans then, at his own admission, banged the dog's head on their deck before taking the dog two acres away (giving him time to think about his actions); then shooting it dead with a shotgun. No consideration was given to other solutions prior to torturing and murdering the dog, as evidenced by David and Janelle's statements on different types of media.

The dog could have been sent to a rehoming shelter. I know this because I rescued a Standard Poodle that did the same thing. Her owners, concerned for their child's safety did a responsible thing. The poodle lived a wonderful life for 11 years under my care, not having injured anyone.

The family probably bought what is an expensive purebred dog with proceeds from their participation in Teen Moms 2; a show they were featured on because they had the ability to procreate before reaching adulthood.

It takes maturity to raise kids, and dogs. This atrocity was not featured on the show, but is now known so widely on the news that Viacom and MTV should immediately cancel the show to demonstrate positive social consciousness. I log about 10 hours a week with MTV, but will no longer do so until Viacom takes socially responsible action.

I'm not a member of PETA, but I do have 28 years law enforcement experience. These people on this show have demonstrated criminal behavior, and should not be awarded monetarily, or be made "famous". I understand the father has been banned from the show, but they still own another dog, and the safety of that dog and their child is still questionable.

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Reason of review:
unethical celebrity of dog murderers
Anonymous
map-marker Hesperia, California

Boycott Georgia

Hi: Very disappointed when I heard that VIACOM will boycott the State of Georgia, just because the majority of Georgians are Christians and don't believe in later term abortions (at taxpayers' expense); if VIACOM does boycott Georgia, then we will boycott all VIACOM products since it's clearly about politics and doesn't care about killing an unborn baby that has a heartbeat.

Denise in California

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Deborah H Ibq
map-marker New York, New York

Scam-overcharge

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My dad tried Viacom for a few months and was not charged the agreed price. They also charged his credit card for reasons which they tell us why and now have refused to give him a credit back..

The representative I talked to was unclear and contradictive. I was placed on hold multiple times so he could speak with another group regarding my dad's account.

No Resolve

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Loss:
$75
Pros:
  • Unsatisfactory
Cons:
  • Customer service
Reason of review:
poor pricing, customer service and unauthorized payments

Preferred solution: Full refund

Anonymous
map-marker Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Viacom "Season Pass" Purchases on Xbox Not Honored

I tried to send this email to Viacom, but their "Contact" section on their website would not process:

Through my Xbox, I purchased the full season of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 4, which is currently airing. This purchase is valid and authorized through Microsoft. When I first made the purchase, the episodes were uploaded to my Microsoft account the next day after they aired on VH1. The most recent episode that aired on December 21st did not upload at all.

I contacted Microsoft and they said there is nothing they can do, that VH1 has not yet released the episode for upload. If VH1/Viacom are not willing to release the episodes for upload as part of the Season Pass deal with Microsoft/Xbox, then perhaps Viacom should reconsider offering these types of deals for their programs.

Please release these programs to Microsoft in a timely manner so I can enjoy what I paid for.

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Cordella Umr
map-marker Pasadena, Texas

Charges and no show

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I purchased love hip hop show for 1.99 got changed 4 times and no show

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Reason of review:
Problems with payment
Anonymous

Raymond

Please take Raymond off!!! There are so many great shows you could show! How many times do we have to watch these same episodes over and over.

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Donald A Clk
map-marker Washington, District Of Columbia

This disgusting foreign crap

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Where is king of the hill? What is was replaced with is pure crap.

We pay too much for this junk and there is nothing to watch especially on weekends. Your program directors suck.

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Reason of review:
Bad quality
vince d Kih
map-marker Hauppauge, New York

TV show Commercial selection after Full House....OUTRAGEOUS!

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My family of 4 with two daughters 15-18 just finished an episode of Full House...family entertainment....GOOD for Nick@***e for running this show.

Then the next commercial pops up and a girl yells out " What up Bitches?1?1?1?1?...

Are you kidding me.... how can they put this advertisement for their own TV SHOW on after a clean family show like Full House?

The editors need to have thier heads examined! I'm not sure why they would even want advertise after Full House because no parent would want to expose thier kids to this kind of show after being a faithful Full House fan.

No more Nick@***e for our family.... Viacom WAKE UP there are plenty of choices out there in Cableland. Please please review the commercial content before you air it on prime time cable TV.

Angry Dad from NC

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Loss:
$1
Cons:
  • Tv show commercial selection after full house
Reason of review:
Damaged or defective

Preferred solution: have programming directors review commercial to promote kids shows in prime time.

Anonymous

Teachers TV Show is horrible

Viacom - Teachers TV Show is horrible

This TV show should not be allowed on TV. It is disrespectful to women teachers making them look dumb and immoral.

There are some great shows on this channel like The Andy Griffith Show. I will tape the shows I like and not watch shows that lack morals. It's such a shame when bad shows are mixed with good quality shows. There is too much garbage on TV as it is, so please clean it up.

I know people who feel as I do and we are sick and tired of all the Disrespect!

Let's strive to make America great again and drop these horrible shows. They belong in the garbage.

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Reason of review:
Immoral TV Show

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

1 comment
Guest

It is a great show!! Settle down and stay off the alcohol.

Anonymous

Short Review on March&nbs-04:00;25,&nbs-04:00;2017

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Yes I am very happy with the way you handle my being so upset at no GUNSMOKE ! I am NO longer pissed about anything.

GUNSMOKE IS BACK NOW I'M A HAPPY GUNSMOKE FAN. Thank you so much.

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Anonymous

Viacom - Sony Streaming Service Review

I recently started using psvue. Within 2 months of my service, psvue cut about 10 or more channels because they were linked to Viacom.

I just accepted that I might just have to deal with this because I know about the arguments over price and contract that have happened in the recent pay with Dish Network, etc. Oh well...i wok probably busy camel the service with psvue all together some I already know how to watch every single thing i desire on the Internet. But when I just went to watch a YouTube video that included reality stars in a clip that was only a few minutes and i couldn't watch it because it had been restricted for copyright, i flipped my lid!!! Whoever runs the past of Viacom that makes all of these decisions, it's a *** *** and is not up with the times.

And I'm not a *** millenial, so believe what I'm saying. You ate restrictive things so much that no one is going to care about your network anymore. That YouTube clip would've made me want the whole episode so bad that I probably would've paid.

But you lost that chance. You are so ***, i don't even have words to say anymore.

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Reason of review:
Bad quality
Anonymous

Exede Internet Service Review

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Wanted to charge me for someone to fix their equipment so I paid termination fees and sent their equipment back only for them to try to charge me for receiving equipment that did not work. This is insane now they say they're going to turn it over to a collection service and that it will impact my credit rating. WHat the *** is wrong with these companies

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Reason of review:
Problems with payment
Channel Uyg
map-marker Melbourne, Victoria

The legal team needs to go back to law school

Viacom - The legal team needs to go back to law school

I have seen multitudes of Fair Use compliant videos on youtube (mostly YTPs) taken down by this evil greedy company. Viacom's legal team need to re-educate themselves, seriously...

These videos are made to parody the original content, falls under fair use.

This just proves that Viacom's legal team are either ***, or just plain *** to the youtube community.

I'm sick of seeing small youtubers get *** over by such big companies like Viacom, and even the biggest youtubers (over 1m subs) have to dodge youtube's broken content id system!

I feel if it is Viacom's job to take over ALL VIDEO MEDIA and will be one of the companies that will abolish fair use entirely, JUST FOR MORE PROFITS!!!

TL;DR Viacom is an evil company that gets away with violating videos 'protected' by fair use

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Cons:
  • Terminating innocent peoples channels for no reason
  • Violating fair use protection
Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Please stop violating fair use.

1 comment
Guest

I love how you keep terminating our tv programs and blaming dish, direct tv, and sudden link. Your company is hurting the customer not the network, so with that said.

If I lose my channels tonight at midnight I will not seek another provider, I will hold you Viacom responsible for this and personally blame you.

I will black list your channels cbs included! I guess 14 billion dollars a year is not enough income for your greedy ***!!!

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Viacom is a global mass media public company. It is presented to be one of the biggest broadcasting and cable companies. Accordingly to its revenue it competes with such companies as Time Warner, Comcast and The Walt Disney. Viacom was established in 2005. And it was formerly known under the name of CBS Corporation. Viacom provides people (especially teenagers) with entertainment content all around the world. The company earns by reaching its audience through television, computer or even cellphone screens. The business of the company is presented to be driven by broad-minded, creative and enthusiastic people with deep inspiration to make this world a better place to live in. Viacom is headquartered in New York.

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