** Paramount Stations Group ( now CBS Television Stations )

Paramount had formed Paramount Stations Group when it purchased the TVX Group, which owned several independent stations in major markets.

Paramount had formed Paramount Stations Group when it purchased the TVX Group, which owned several independent stations in major markets.

Both of these companies had their names changed to reflect new ownership: TVX became known as the Paramount Stations Group, while KECO was renamed to Paramount Parks.

Under Viacom, the Paramount Stations Group continued to build with more station acquisitions, eventually leading to Viacom's acquisition of its former parent, the CBS network, in 1999.

Viacom split into two companies in 2006, one retaining the Viacom name ( which continues to own Paramount Pictures ), while another was named CBS Corporation ( which now controls Paramount Television Group, which was renamed CBS Paramount Television, now known as CBS Television Studios and worldwide distribution unit is now CBS Television Distribution and CBS Studios International, in 2006, Simon & Schuster for Prentice Hall and other educational units, which Viacom sold to Pearson PLC in 1998, and what's left of the original Paramount Stations Group, now known as CBS Television Stations ).

WWHO ( then " WB 53 ") remained a The WB affiliate until the Paramount Stations Group ( a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, whose parent company is Viacom ) agreed to acquire the station in 1997, along with sister station WLWC in Providence and sell Hartford's NBC affiliate WVIT to NBC in return.

On February 10, 2005, it was announced that the Viacom Television Stations Group ( the successor to the Paramount Stations Group as a result of Viacom merging with CBS in 1999 ) was selling WWHO and WNDY-TV ( in the Indianapolis market ) to LIN Television for $ 85 million.

On February 10, 2005, LIN Television announced its intention to bring 10 p. m. news, which had disappeared from WWHO following its acquisition by Paramount Stations Group, back to the station.

At the same time, the Paramount Stations Group ( a subsidiary of Viacom since 1994 ) was planning to buy KIRO-TV from Belo Corporation ( which had acquired KING-TV in a merger with the Providence Journal ) and convert it into a more traditional independent station ; however, the group hesitated with the plan when it found out KIRO's news department was still doing very well in the ratings.

That summer, Paramount Stations Group, a subsidiary of Viacom ( which had purchased original parent Paramount Pictures not long after UPN was founded ), bought the station and changed its call letters to WUPA.

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG ( which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg ) in a deal worth $ 1. 6 billion.

* The De Laurentiis Entertainment Group library was initially distributed by Paramount in Canada, these films are also in the StudioCanal catalog, with MGM, Anchor Bay, and Fox each distributing some titles in North America ).

* Paramount has also acquired ( through Trifecta Entertainment & Media ) the US TV and digital rights to most of the Carolco Pictures catalog, under license from StudioCanal, as a result of acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had been distributing the Carolco library.

* Paramount Studio Group, physical studio and post production

* Paramount Films Group

* Paramount Television Group ( now CBS Television Studios )

UPN was originally owned by Viacom / Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's series.

However, in 1999, in response to intensifying charges of " back room politics " in the selection process, the Chamber disclosed the members ' names: Johnny Grant, the longtime chair and representative of the television category ; Earl Lestz, president of Paramount Studio Group ( motion pictures ); Stan Spero, retired manager with broadcast stations KMPC and KABC ( radio ); Kate Nelson, owner of the Palace Theatre ( live performance ); and Mary Lou Dudas, vice president of A & M Records ( recording industry ).

Cinemax ( through HBO ) also shows sub-runs ( runs of films that have already received broadcast network / syndicated television releases ) of theatrical films from Paramount Pictures ( usually those released prior to 1997 ), Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures ), Twentieth Century Fox ( select films from all five studios are shared with Starz and Encore ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks Pictures ( those made prior to the 2010 shift of film distribution rights from Paramount to Touchstone Pictures ), and Lionsgate Entertainment.

* Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by Viacom

Lai managed to list the company in 1999 by acquiring Paramount Publishing Group in October of that year.

In addition to the Paramount film, television, home video, and music publishing divisions, the company continued to own the Madison Square Garden properties ( which also included MSG Network ), a 50 % stake in USA Networks ( the other 50 % was owned by MCA / Universal Studios, which incidentally became the owner of the Famous Music Group catalog when it bought ABC Records in 1979 and a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library when it bought it in 1958 ) and Simon and Schuster ( which itself acquired Prentice Hall a few years before, and later Gousha ).

Paramount also had a monopoly over Detroit movie theaters through subsidiary company United Detroit Theaters as well.

When the 1949 Paramount Consent Decree forced divestiture by the studios, it did not apply outside the US so Paramount kept its Canadian theater subsidiary.

* Paramount Pictures Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf + Western Industries, Inc.

In 1957, MCA acquired Paramount Pictures ' pre-1950 sound feature film library through a newly created MCA subsidiary, EMKA, Ltd.

NTA was reorganized in the 1980s as Republic Pictures, which is currently a subsidiary of Viacom, the parent company of Paramount.

Paramount Records, founded in Grafton, Wisconsin, was founded in the 1910s as a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, Fred Dennett Key, director.

In 1994, Paramount was sold to Viacom, followed by Seagram's purchase of a controlling stake in MCA ( of which Universal was a subsidiary ) from Matsushita the next year.

After Stax was acquired, that label became a subsidiary of Dot, though Dot was not at all mentioned on the actual label ( rather, Dot and Stax were noted as subsidiaries of Paramount ).

Recently ( 2007 ), Legend Films colorized It's a Wonderful Life for Paramount Pictures ( whose subsidiary, Republic Pictures, had regained control of the copyright in the 1990s ) and Holiday Inn in 2008 for Universal Pictures.

Paramount has been a subsidiary of Alon USA, a publicly-traded refining and marketing company ( NYSE: ALJ ), since 2006.

The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of American film studio Paramount Pictures.

WBBM-TV traces its history to 1940 when Balaban and Katz, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, opened experimental station W9XBK, the first all-electronic television facility in Chicago.

Films produced by DreamWorks Animation are currently distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Viacom, who acquired the DreamWorks live-action studio in February 2006, spinning it off again in 2008.

In early 1994, Viacom's newly-acquired subsidiary, Paramount Pictures, announced plans to form the United Paramount Network, a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries.

The station was then sold to Paramount Stations Group ( which would become a subsidiary of Viacom that same year ) and became a charter UPN affiliate in 1995 ; that June, the longtime " TV 38 " branding was retired in favor of " UPN 38 ".

In the early 1970's SEGA was made a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures Corporation, which was also owned by Gulf + Western.

The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of American film studio Paramount Pictures.

Originally owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and located on the Paramount Studios lot, the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, on channel 4, but did not go on the air until September 1942.