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On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which held the namesake flagship channel CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (merged with The WB to form the CW, co-owned by Time Warner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV, Simon and ...
Viacom Inc. [a] (derived from "Video & Audio Communications") was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City.It began as CBS Television Film Sales, the broadcast syndication division of the CBS television network in 1952; it was renamed CBS Films in 1958, renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, renamed Viacom in 1970, and spun off into its own company in 1971.
The 2019 merger of CBS Corporation and Viacom was announced on August 13, 2019, and was completed on December 4, 2019. The merger of equals reunited CBS Corporation and Viacom into a single company known as ViacomCBS (today known as Paramount Global) after their separation from the first incarnation of Viacom on December 31, 2005.
ViacomCBS will change its corporate name to Paramount as of Feb. 16, calling the move an effort to adopt “an iconic global name” to reflect the conglomerate’s increasingly worldwide focus.
Executive Kent Alterman would take charge of Paramount Network and TV Land to go with his current leadership of Comedy Central and Bellator MMA. [20] In 2019, after acquiring the free streaming service Pluto TV, Viacom would launch several channels on the service branded after its Media Networks and company–owned IP. [21] [22] [23] [24]
On April 1, 2014, Cable One removed 15 channels owned by Viacom (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and TV Land) off after the two companies failed to reach an agreement. Channels were replaced with other networks, including BBC America, Sprout, Sundance TV, IFC, Investigation Discovery, TV One, CMP/TV, National Geographic Channel, and TheBlaze. The change ...
Gulf+Western renamed to Paramount Communications: 1994: Viacom acquires Paramount Communications: 1995: Westinghouse acquires CBS: 1997: Westinghouse renamed to CBS Corporation: 2000: Viacom acquires UPN and CBS Corporation: 2005: Viacom splits into second CBS Corporation and Viacom: 2006: CBS Corporation shuts down UPN and replaces it with The ...
During his tenure, Bakish expanded Viacom's international footprint, [27] [37] and VIMN was Viacom's most successful division; revenue doubled, and VIMN grew to more than 200 television channels. [ 26 ] [ 38 ] [ 5 ] Under his leadership, the Paramount Channel was launched, offering movies and television shows in Europe, Latin America and Russia.