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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 ...
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.
Reports say that CBS and Viacom reportedly set August 8 as an informal deadline for reaching an agreement to recombine the two media companies. [76] [77] CBS announced to acquire Viacom as part of the re-merger deal for up to $15.4 billion. [78] On August 2, 2019, it was reported that CBS and Viacom agreed to merge back into one entity.
Its last stock split was a 2-for-1 affair on Jan. 13, 2000. Costco's stock has seen a total return of 2,450% since then, leaving the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index far behind with a mere 477% ...
The CBS Corporation name was later reused for one of the two companies resulting from the split of Viacom in 2005. One of the few remaining original lines of business to survive this process was the nuclear power division, which was sold to BNFL in 1999 and re-formed as Westinghouse Electric Company .
In July 2022, GameStop — the fairy-tale stock at the center of history’s greatest short squeeze — announced a 4-for-1 stock split. That’s just one of many tech-related splits that have ...
By the time 2019 rolled around — a decade into the contract — CBS held, by far, the No. 1 single-game weekly package in all of college sports and yet only paid about $3.5 million per game.
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.