• Variety, Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:34 PM

Viacom Tuesday named seven independent directors to the board of its soon-to-be-split-up companies. Former Viacom Vice Chairman Thomas Dooley; Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History; and Robert Kraft of the Kraft Group, which owns the New England Patriots, will join the board of the "new" Viacom, to be headed by Tom Freston. At CBS Corp., which will be run by Leslie Moonves, new directors include Charles Gifford, chairman emeritus of Bank of America; Bruce Gordon, president-chief executive of the NAACP; Ann Reese, financier and executive director of nonprofit Center for Adoption Policy; and Judith Sprieser, co-founder and former CEO of tech group Transora.

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