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The Viacom Folies
And the network that gave us the original WKRP series provides another example itself of what might qualify as comedy, but, again, perhaps only in a philosophical sense.
      In 2005, Paramount was producing both Entertainment Tonight and The Insider. But, by then, Paramount was owned by Viacom, and Viacom also owned CBS, the network that had originally produed WKRP.
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History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

--Edward Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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