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Viacom Inc. operates as an entertainment content company. The company connects with audiences through content across television, motion picture, online and mobile platforms in approximately 160 countries and territories. Segments The company manages its operations through two segments: Media Networks and Filmed Entertainment. MEDIA NETWORKS The Media Networks segment provides entertainment content and related branded products for consumers in targeted demographics attractive to advertisers, content distributors and retailers. The company creates, acquires, and distributes programming and other content to its audiences across multiple platforms, which allows them to engage with its content how and where they want to view and interact with it: on television, online and on mobile devices and through various consumer products. Viacom Media Networks operates its media networks businesses through four channel groups: Music & Logo, Nickelodeon, Entertainment and BET Networks. Viacom Media Networks and its international operations reach approximately 700 million households in approximately 160 countries and territories worldwide via approximately 200 locally programmed and operated TV channels and digital and mobile TV properties, which include MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nick at Nite, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, SPIKE, Tr3s, Paramount Channel and VIVA. Viacom Media Networks also has a casual games business that includes Websites such as AddictingGames.com and Shockwave.com. Media Networks Properties Viacom Media Networks’ online properties collectively averaged approximately 69 million unique visitors per month domestically, as of September 30, 2012. Viacom Media Networks operates the international extensions of the company’s brands, as well as certain program services created specifically for international and/or non-English speaking audiences, through its international operations, Viacom International Media Networks. Viacom International Media Networks owns and operates, participates in through joint ventures, and/or licenses to third parties to operate approximately 200 locally programmed and operated TV channels, including extensions of multimedia brands MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, COMEDY CENTRAL and BET, as well as program services regionally customized for particular viewers with local language, music, programming and on-air personalities. Paramount Channel is a free-to-air, 24-hour movie channel available in Spain; Colors is a Hindi-language general entertainment channel operated by Viacom 18 joint venture, which is available in India, the U.K. and Ireland, as well as in Canada and the U.S. as Aapka Colors; Game One is a general entertainment and lifestyle channel available in France, featuring Japanese anime programming; Tr3s is a bilingual network for U.S.-based Latinos; Viva is a music and entertainment channel in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Switzerland and parts of eastern Europe; and several extensions of Comedy Central channels were launched in Latin America, Africa, Russia and the Adriatic region, as 24-hour, fully-localized comedy channels in these regions. Music & Logo The Music & Logo group includes music, youth and young adult-oriented program services and digital properties, which target the 12-24, 18-24 and 18-34 demographics, and Logo, the company’s properties for gays, lesbians and their families and friends. Main properties in this group include: MTV: A multimedia destination targeting music fans and artists, and offering content built around storytelling, music discovery and activism across television, online and mobile platforms. MTV reached approximately 98 million domestic television households in September 2012 and approximately 600 million households in approximately 160 countries and territories worldwide via its 41 MTV branded channels. MTV2: Part of the MTV family of channels, a music and lifestyle network targeting male ‘millennials’ aged 15 to 25 and featuring original music, live-action sports and irreverent lifestyle programming. Programming highlights included music-based programs such as Sucker Free Countdown, T