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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
Viacom described this as a "temporary slimdown" until a new carriage deal with DirecTV was reached. [34] Viacom and DirecTV reached an agreement on July 20 to return the interrupted programming. [35] In 2012 CEO Phillip Dauman began to report Viacom's intentions to bundle past programming and make it available on-demand via services like Hulu. [36]
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
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]
The sale was first announced in November 1978. [15] As a result of Taft's purchase of Worldvision, Taft merged its syndicated arms Taft H-B Program Sales and Taft H-B International into the company. [16] In 1981, Worldvision launched subsidiary Evergreen Programs to generate sales of its own programming already aired by networks and stations. [17]
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Two weeks after word first surfaced that Viacom had been holding acquisition talks with ad-supported streaming services, it has acquired Pluto TV for $340 million in cash. Founded in 2013, Pluto ...
Logo and toys from when the company was known as Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products. Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) was founded in 1991. [1] At first, it was a subdivision of Nickelodeon Enterprises, [8] a business unit set up to license Nickelodeon's properties to other companies.