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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.
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+. It was founded in 2005, and Tom Ryan is the company's president and CEO. [2]
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.
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 ...
After years of deliberation, the merger is finally approaching a close, and the entertainment world gets a little smaller.
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 ...
In 1952, CBS formed CBS Television Film Sales, a division which handled syndication rights for CBS's library of network-owned television series.This division was renamed CBS Films in 1958, again renamed CBS Enterprises in January 1968, and finally renamed Viacom (an acronym of Video and Audio Communications) in 1970.
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 ...