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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, Simon and Schuster, Infinity ...
2000 – CBS acquired by Viacom [8] 2005 – Viacom is split into two companies in January, with a new Viacom being spun off of the old Viacom company, and the old Viacom being renamed as CBS Corporation, thus reviving Westinghouse's last name prior to sale, and reversing the 2000 Viacom-CBS merger [52] [53]
CBS Corporation was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.It was split from Viacom on December 31, 2005, alongside an entirely new Viacom; both CBS Corporation and the second Viacom were controlled by National Amusements, a theater company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone.
As of 2008, Westwood One continues to distribute CBS radio programming, but as a self-managed company that put itself up for sale and found a buyer for a significant amount of its stock. The same year the company purchased Infinity, Westinghouse changed its name to CBS Corporation, and its corporate headquarters were moved from Pittsburgh to ...
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 CW: 2017: CBS Corporation sells CBS Radio to Entercom (now Audacy) 2019: CBS Corporation and Viacom re ...
CBS and Viacom are finally, really, back to together. Less than four months after announcing their intentions to rejoin as one company, the companies closed their merger on Wednesday, beginning ...
In 1999, CBS Corporation sold its nuclear business (Westinghouse Electric Company) to British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) [4] and a year later CBS Corporation was merged into Viacom (1971–2005), putting an end to the original Westinghouse.
Several large investment funds had sued Paramount Global alleging that the company pushed through the 2019 merger of Viacom and CBS at the expense of minority shareholders. Paramount to pay $122.5 ...