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It would be known under this name until 2011; when it would be thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until 2019; and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks until 2022. The division's television assets are managed through three units: the MTV Entertainment Group , Showtime Networks , and the Nickelodeon Group , while also holding AwesomenessTV .
The second Viacom operated Viacom Media Networks, through which it controlled approximately 170 networks and reached approximately 700 million subscribers in approximately 160 countries. [9] Viacom's studio assets included Paramount Pictures , MTV Films , and Nickelodeon Animation Studio , as well as a 30% ownership stake in the Rainbow S.p.A ...
USA Networks – Viacom sold its stake in the company to Universal Pictures in 1997; Viacom Cable – sold to TCI in 1995; Ohio systems resold to Time Warner Cable in 1998; Viacom Radio; Viacom18 (13.01%) – sold its stake to Reliance Industries in 2024 Viacom18 US; Viacom18 Media Colors; Viacom18 Studios; The Indian Film Company [34] JioCinema
MTV2 – A general entertainment and music network owned by Viacom, which remains distributed mainly on cable and satellite providers; it became a broadcast network on January 1, 2001 when it assumed the operations of The Box, but slowly dropped its broadcast affiliates in subsequent years as existing affiliation contracts expired.
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.
Viacom and Charter Communications have agreed to a distribution deal that puts eight of Viacom's most popular networks in Charter's cheapest cable bundle.
In 1971, this syndication division was spun off amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies (these rules were eventually abolished completely in 1993). [14] In 1986, Viacom purchased MTV Networks and Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc. from Warner Communications and American Express. [15]
previously produced by Paramount Network Television; co-production with Crescent Entertainment (seasons 1–3), Lionsgate Television, The Segan Company (seasons 1–5), Modern Entertainment (seasons 1–3), Piller2 Productions / The Piller/Segan Company and Dead Zone Production Company Distributed in the U.S. by Lionsgate/Debmar-Mercury