COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Honored With Two Primetime Emmy Awards

COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Honored With Two Primetime Emmy Awards

Nine-Time Winner "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" Adds an Emmy (Program) for a 10 Emmy Total

Outrageous Animated Favorite "South Park" Scores Second Emmy Win at September 8 Ceremony

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- COMEDY CENTRAL earned two more awards in the 2006-2007 Primetime Emmy Awards competition, it was announced last night by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS).

Nine-time Emmy-winner (four times for program, five times for writing) "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the network's unique news parody series, won one more Emmy, bringing its overall Emmy total into the double digits, including the fifth year in a row for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series.

The Emmy Awards were presented during two ceremonies. The first, primarily for creative arts categories, took place on Saturday, September 8 with COMEDY CENTRAL's hit animated show "South Park" winning the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (less than an hour). The balance of the Emmys, primarily for the performing arts, were announced before a black-tie audience during a primetime telecast (FOX) on Sunday, September 16. Both ceremonies took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA.

The following is a complete list of COMEDY CENTRAL's Emmy wins, along with all credited individuals:

   OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES        The Daily Show with Jon Stewart        Jon Stewart, Executive Producer        Ben Karlin, Executive Producer        David Javerbaum, Executive Producer        Kahane Corn, Co-Executive Producer        Josh Lieb, Co-Executive Producer        Rory Albanese, Supervising Producer        Jim Margolis, Supervising Producer    OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (For Programming Less Than One Hour)        South Park, "Make Love, Not Warcraft"        Trey Parker, Executive Producer, Writer, Director        Matt Stone, Executive Producer        Anne Garefino, Executive Producer        Frank C. Agnone II, Supervising Producer        Kyle McCulloch, Producer        Eric Stough, Director of Animation   

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 91 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:and) (NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL's press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.

MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with 137 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services -- MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN/THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, LOGO, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 200 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.

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CONTACT: Mary Ann Minster of COMEDY CENTRAL, +1-212-767-8874,
maryann.mister@comedycentral.com

Web site: http://www.comedycentral.com/
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