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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.
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.
On August 13, 2019, CBS and Viacom officially announced their merger; the combined company was to be named ViacomCBS, with Shari Redstone serving as chair. [40] [41] [42] Upon the merger agreement, Viacom and CBS jointly announced that the transaction is expected to close by the end of 2019, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals. [42]
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-merge as ViacomCBS: 2022 ...
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.
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-merge as ViacomCBS: 2022 ...
11 Channel originally owned by the first incarnation of Viacom, and earlier with former partner Warner-Amex, and later became part of CBS Corporation following Viacom's split in 2006. Showtime was established in 1976, and The Movie Channel was established in 1973 as Star Channel and relaunched under its current name in 1979.