Viacom, 60 Cable Firms Part Ways in Rural U.S.

For two months, nearly 1 million households in small towns across the United States haven’t been able to watch Nickelodeon, MTV or Comedy Central, as a result of a blackout of the Viacom Inc. channels by some 60 small cable operators. So far, there is little evidence any more than a handful of the households care, the Wall Street Journal reports.