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Viacom Productions (formerly Viacom Enterprises) was a television production arm of Viacom International. Viacom Enterprises was also a movie production , and a sports production . The division was active from 1971 until 2004, when the company was folded into Paramount Television 10 years following Viacom's acquisition of Paramount Pictures ...
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]
In February 2011, Viacom purchased a 30% ownership stake in the Italian animation studio Rainbow S.p.A. for 62 million euros (US$83 million). [12] Since then, the studio has collaborated with ViacomCBS' other company, Nickelodeon, on multiple shows, including Winx Club and Club 57. [13] Paramount Global sold its 30% stake in the studio in 2023.
previously produced by Viacom Productions/Paramount Network Television; co-production with American Zoetrope, BSkyB, Renegade 83 Productions and 4400 Productions CSI: NY: 2004–2013: CBS: previously produced by CBS Productions; co-production with Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Alliance Atlantis: Everybody Hates Chris: 2005–2009: UPN/The CW
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 ...
The original phase of 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 ...
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]
In 1999, Spelling Entertainment was bought out by Viacom Productions, resulting in Paramount Domestic Television (which Viacom had owned since its 1994 acquisition of Paramount Pictures) becoming Big Ticket's distributor in June 1999.