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CBS Corporation retained the over-the-air broadcasting, television production, pay television subscription service, and publishing assets, which were previously owned by the first Viacom. The second Viacom was the world's ninth-largest media company in terms of revenue and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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]
National Amusements owns a 9.7% equity stake and 79.9% voting interest in Paramount Global, and used to operate its predecessors, the second CBS Corporation and the second Viacom before their closure in 2019, both split from the also defunct First Viacom. [30] The company may hold an unspecified stake in Audacy, Inc., as part of the reverse ...
USA Networks – Viacom sold its stake in the company to Universal Pictures in 1997; Viacom Cable – sold to TCI in 1995; Ohio systems resold to Time Warner Cable in 1998; Viacom Radio; Viacom18 (13.01%) – sold its stake to Reliance Industries in 2024 Viacom18 US; Viacom18 Media Colors; Viacom18 Studios; The Indian Film Company [34] JioCinema
Viacom's share acquisition 2018–2019 The company also owns Viacom18 Studios . On 31 January 2018, TV18 announced its acquisition of Viacom's majority in the joint venture, taking operational control and leaving Viacom with a minority interest. [ 7 ]
In November 1985, Viacom announced that it had plans to buy the remaining 69% of MTV Networks from Warner for $326 million, [7] and the acquisition was completed on May 20, 1986. [8] In 1988, the company partnered with fellow Viacom subsidiary Viacom Enterprises to handle advertising sales of Superboy, a syndicated television series. [9]
The "new" Viacom would be spun-off from what became CBS Corporation, the legal successor to the original Viacom; which would retain CBS, Paramount Television, UPN, CBS Radio, and Paramount Parks (later sold to Cedar Fair in 2007). [citation needed] By 2007, BET had launched two more music–oriented networks, BET Hip Hop and BET Gospel.
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.