There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.

He was a strong supporter of radio disc jockey Howard Stern at Viacom and Karmazin joined Sirius Radio after Stern. Karmazin presided over New York's WNEW-AM (now WBBR) and WNEW-FM (now WWFS) for Metromedia when he was approached to run Infinity Broadcasting in 1981. Melvin Alan "Mel" Karmazin (born August 24 1943) is an American executive.

From 2008-2012 he was the former CEO of Sirius XM Radio. He co-founded and was the president of Infinity Broadcasting and eventually became the president and CEO of CBS. Karmazin planned to step down February 1 2013 as John C.