Aye Aye, Captain.

Viacom’s changed captain chairs again by naming Bob Bakish acting president and chief executive on Monday, in the latest shuffling at the troubled youth programmer.

The executive, who ran international operations, is said to have impressed Viacom board members in recent budget meetings with his knowledge of what’s working overseas.

Bakish, who has been with the firm since Tom Freston’s days, is the third CEO in as many months, and comes with yet another turnaround plan for the company that houses, Paramount Pictures, MTV and Comedy Central.

In an internal memo, the executive said the company’s next evolution “will take everyone’s help, and everyone’s ideas. I don’t believe in silos, and I do believe good ideas can come from anywhere. I want us to share more, and scale more. To take more chances, to be more experimental, more unexpected.”

Bakish has his work cut out. Viacom’s cable numbers are down year-on-year by 5 percent in total day for the week of Oct. 23, according to Barclays data.

His tenure could last weeks or months, depending on how the CBS merger comes together, if at all.

Bakish was previously president and CEO of Viacom’s International Media Networks.

Viacom has 200 TV channels reaching 3.9 billion subscribers in 180 countries, according to a company press release.

Bakish joined the firm in 1997 and is set to replace Tom Dooley when he steps down from the post on Nov. 15.

Dooley replaced CEO Philippe Dauman, who exited after a battle with the controlling shareholders Sumner and Shari Redstone.