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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 ...
Based on the TV series The Worst Week of My Life by Hat Trick Productions and the BBC: Gary Unmarried: 2008–2010: co-production with Ed Yeager Productions, Rude Mood Productions (both season 1 only) and ABC Studios Distributed in the U.S. by Disney Media Distribution: Flashpoint: 2008–2012: CTV CBS/Ion Television
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-merge as ViacomCBS: 2022: ViacomCBS renamed to Paramount Global: 2024
The new-model Paramount is also pouring money into content at a rate that neither Viacom nor CBS Corp. was able to do on its own prior to the re-merger of the Redstone media empire in late 2019 ...
On March 4, 2013, then-president and then-CEO of Viacom Philippe Dauman announced that Paramount opted to produce a television series based on one of their films. The show would allow Paramount to “get back, with very little investment, into the television production business.” [8] Hours later, Paramount chairman/CEO Brad Grey announced that the studio was co-producing a CBS television ...
Viacom Productions (formerly Viacom Enterprises) was a television production arm of Viacom International. Viacom Enterprises was also a movie production , and a sports production . The division was active from 1971 until 2004, when the company was folded into Paramount Television 10 years following Viacom's acquisition of Paramount Pictures ...
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[48] [49] As part of the re-merger deal, CBS acquired Viacom for up to $15.4 billion. [50] On August 13, 2019, CBS and Viacom agreed to merge into a new entity known as ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), with Viacom CEO Bob Bakish as president and CEO of the new company and CBS CEO Ianniello as chairman and CEO of CBS and oversee CBS-branded ...