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Paramount Media Networks is the division of Paramount Global that oversees the operations of its television channels and online brands. The division was originally founded as MTV Networks in 1984, named after the MTV cable network. [1] It would be known under this name until 2011; when it would be thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until ...
The second Viacom operated Viacom Media Networks, through which it controlled approximately 170 networks and reached approximately 700 million subscribers in approximately 160 countries. [9] Viacom's studio assets included Paramount Pictures , MTV Films , and Nickelodeon Animation Studio , as well as a 30% ownership stake in the Rainbow S.p.A ...
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.
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 ...
Black Entertainment Television LLC (doing business as the BET Media Group, and formerly known as BET Networks) is an American television company currently owned by American media conglomerate Paramount Global under its CBS Entertainment unit. Founded by Robert L. Johnson in 1983, the holding was bought by the first incarnation of Viacom in 2001.
MTV, CMT, and other single-branded Viacom and CBS networks were organized under the MTV Entertainment Group. VH1 became part of BET Networks, which was moved under the CBS Entertainment Group . Paramount Television (second incarnation by Viacom) – renamed Paramount Television Studios to avoid confusion with the first incarnation (now CBS ...
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, an abbreviation of Video and Audio Communications, may refer to: Viacom (1952–2005), a former American media conglomerate; Viacom (2005–2019), a former company spun off from the original Viacom; Viacom18, a joint venture between Paramount Global and TV18 in India until 2024 Viacom18 Studios, the film subsidiary of Viacom18