Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

NBC licensed television syndication rights to NBCUniversal Television Distribution and US video distribution to Lionsgate.

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

CBS Television Distribution currently holds rights to the series ; it is ( as of 2011 ) currently broadcast on CBS. com's video archives and is not broadcast on any linear channel but is currently available via Netflix streaming ( as of November 2011.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of the studio's pre-1950 films to Associated Artists Productions ( which merged with United Artists Television in 1958 ).

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.

At the start of the 1997 season, the WNBA had television deals in place with NBC ( NBA rights holder ), and the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation joint venture channels, ESPN and Lifetime Television Network, respectively.

On February 1, 2004, Variety announced that Utopia Pictures & Television had acquired the rights to produce adaptations of three of Dick's novels: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, VALIS and Radio Free Albemuth.

In 1983, producer Mark Goodson teamed up with Orion Television ( who had recently acquired the rights to Hollywood Squares ) and NBC to create The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour.

All episodes are intact, but due to cross-ownershipCBS Television Distribution owns the rights to Hollywood Squares ( at the time of MGHS it was owned by Orion Television ) while FremantleMedia owns Match Game have never been rerun.

However, distribution rights are now held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive on behalf of Caidin, represented by Westchester Films ( which acquired the Caidin Film holdings after the folding of former distributor Castle Hill Productions ).

This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself, was unable to come to terms with CBS Television for broadcast rights to the clips ( all previous rights holders having donated broadcast rights gratis ).

In 1997, Henry Vlug, a deaf lawyer in Vancouver, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging that an absence of captioning on some programming on CBC Television and Newsworld infringed on his rights as a person with a disability.

Paramount still owns video rights to some of these films today, while TV distribution is now with Trifecta Entertainment & Media, while the Disney owned Miramax films are distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

No episodes from either the 1972-1980 or 1994-1995 syndicated versions aired during this time, the former mostly due to Barker's fur ban and the latter due to rights issues involving Paramount Television.

Renewal was filed by EMKA, Ltd., holder of the rights to Paramount's pre-1950 library, and now part of NBC Universal Television Distribution.

The CBS-produced / owned films, unlike other films in Paramount's library, are still distributed by CBS Television Distribution on TV, and not by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, because CBS ( or a subdivision ) is the copyright holder for these films.

Although EMKA, Ltd. ( now part of Universal Television ) had acquired Paramount's older films in 1959, Animal Crackers evidently was regarded as a mess best left untouched.

This was done mainly to address ABC's inability to find a suitable 8 p. m. lead-in program for MNF since the 1992 ending of MacGyver ( not even two other series from Paramount Television – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Marshal – which produced MacGyver, saw success, despite the former's ties to Paramount's Indiana Jones film series ), and to allow stations to start their late local newscasts nearer to their regular times.

Paramount's successor CBS Television Distribution has distribution rights to the series in the United States while Fox retains global distribution rights.

On September 8, 2008, Entertainment Tonight began to air in high definition with the move of the program from their longtime home at Stage 28 on the Paramount Pictures studio lot to Stage 4 at CBS Studio Center, one of the final steps involving the incorporation of Paramount's former syndication arm, Paramount Domestic Television, into CBS ' distribution arms and the adoption of the CBS Television Distribution name, which all took place following the breakup of the original Viacom in 2005.

In the United States, television and internet rights to the theatrical library are held by Paramount Pictures, with Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( inherited from CBS Television Distribution and predecessor company Worldvision Enterprises, once a Spelling Entertainment company ) handling TV syndication on Paramount's behalf.

Desilu Sales, in turn, merges with Paramount's syndication division to become Paramount Television Sales.

* 2006: On January 17, CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves announced that Paramount Television would be renamed CBS Paramount Television as of that day, after merging with CBS Productions, with both the CBS ' eyemark ' and Paramount's mountain united in the new logo, and the network division becoming CBS Paramount Network Television.

For a short time, many of Paramount's theatrical films were distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution ( the new name for the distribution arm as of 2007 ).

A year later, at a workshop Berwid hosted Hector met Donna Eckholdt, VP of talent development and casting for Paramount's Big Ticket Television.

Other accomplishments included the acquisition and mergers of Viacom Television, Spelling TV and Rysher Entertainment ( more than doubling Paramount's TV library ) and heading up Paramount's theme park division, then the fifth largest theme park operator in North America.

But from 2006 – 2009, the library was distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the television distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) – the films are now distributed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media on television.

As with its photographs, UPI thereby lost all control of its newsfilm and video library, which is now held by WTN-successor Associated Press Television News, which entered the video news field long after UPI left it.

GSN also airs, or has aired, the Sony Pictures Television library programming from the following examples:

The former ITV company Thames Television also has a significant library.

This library included a free 7-day watch again feature for TV programmes produced by the BBC, Channel 4 and Virgin Media Television ( formerly known as Flextech ).

* CBS Corporation / CBS Television Studios, a division of CBS Corp. ( 2006 – present, underlying rights to library ).

Today, Lear's TV library is owned by Sony Pictures Television.

The sale of MGM / UA to an Australian company Qintex / Australian Television Network ( owners of the Hal Roach library both MGM and UA distributed in the 1930s ) in 1989 also fell through, due to the company's bankruptcy later that year.

On June 18, 1985, Columbia acquired Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio's Embassy Pictures Corporation ( included Embassy Television and Tandem Productions ), mostly for its library of highly successful television series such as All in the Family and The Jeffersons for $ 485 million.

Both shows were made by Paramount Television and are currently distributed by CBS Television Distribution ( along with the rest of the Paramount TV library ).

Comcast offers over 1, 000 episodes from the Warner Bros. Television library on its video on demand service.

Following Orion's bankruptcy, MGM acquired a majority of their holdings of the American International Pictures library ( which had previously been owned by Filmways ), and the MGM Television Studios controls the television distribution rights only.

* CBS Paramount Television, a television studio and library