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CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
It was the world's eighth largest entertainment company in terms of revenue and headquartered at the CBS Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [4] CBS Corporation announced on August 13, 2019, that it would merge with Viacom for the second time to form ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global). [5] The merger was completed on December 4 ...
Paramount Pictures, CBS, and Viacom each had a history of being associated with one another through a series of various corporate mergers and splits. [10] Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company. [11] CBS was founded in 1927, which Paramount Pictures held a 49 percent ownership stake in from 1929 to 1932.
CBS Studios, Inc. is an American television production company which is a subsidiary of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global. It was formed on January 17, 2006, by CBS Corporation as CBS Paramount (Network) Television , as a renaming of the original incarnation of the Paramount Television studio.
TriStar Pictures – joint venture with Time Inc.'s HBO and Columbia Pictures. In 1985, CBS sold a small percent of TriStar to Columbia and HBO. 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
On December 31, 2005, the remnants of MTV Networks and Showtime Networks were separated following Viacom's split into two entities: CBS Corporation, which retained CBS, UPN, Simon & Schuster and Showtime Networks (Showtime, The Movie Channel, and Flix), and a spun-off company under the Viacom name, which took ownership of Paramount Pictures ...
This category is for companies once owned by CBS Corporation or its predecessors (excluding assets formerly owned by either incarnation of Viacom). Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
CBS is an American broadcast television network owned and operated by Paramount Global, which originated as a radio network in September 1927, and expanded into television in July 1941. The network currently has 15 owned-and-operated stations , and current affiliation agreements with 236 other television stations.