Due to fin-syn rules in the 1970s, ABC Films was spun-off and renamed Worldvision Enterprises in 1973.

In 1994, Worldvision was incorporated into Republic Pictures and Spelling sold to Viacom.

This is because co-producer QM Productions gained control of ancillary rights and all rights were sold to ABC films, that company became Worldvision Enterprises in 1973, which in turn was sold to Taft Broadcasting in 1979, which in turn sold it to Spelling Entertainment in 1988, which in turn ended up as part of CBS Television Studios.

The show was originally distributed by Screen Gems in its network run and in syndication through the 1970s ; it was later passed to Worldvision Enterprises, after it became a sister company to Hanna-Barbera.

The weekly nighttime syndicated series, seen from 1971 – 1977, was distributed by ABC Films and its successor, Worldvision Enterprises.

The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution.

The show was produced by Worldvision Productions and was distributed during its original run by Colex Enterprises, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures Television Distribution and LBS Communications on the first two seasons and later by Coca-Cola Telecommunications on its final season.

It was originally distributed by Worldvision Enterprises.

During its network run the show was distributed by Worldvision Enterprises ( also internationally in rebroadcasts ) and later by Lorimar Telepictures.

The movie was a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation produced by Worldvision, and aired on CBS.

However, NBC ( and now NBC Universal ) has always owned the ancillary rights ( the sale of US TV syndication rights in 1979 to Worldvision was due to fin-syn laws then in place ).

All of its programming was distributed by Spelling's syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises.

The episodes end on the newer ' zoom-in ' Worldvision logo ( present after the company was sold to Spelling Entertainment in 1988 ) except for the final episode which uses the original ' scroll ' logo and is obviously the originally aired episode.

CBS Television Distribution ( inherited from ABC Films, Worldvision Enterprises and Paramount Television ) owns American television distribution rights to the series, while Disney-ABC International Television has international rights -- original producer and copyright holder Selmur Productions was a division of ABC.

As Taft upgraded the programming ( much of which was distributed by new sister company Worldvision Enterprises, especially Hanna-Barbera cartoons ), WDCA gained higher ratings but still trailed WTTG overall.

Channel 21 was a money loser throughout the 1980s, but Taft kept strong programming on the station ( including Hanna-Barbera cartoons and other programs owned by Taft and distributed by Worldvision Enterprises ).

Worldvision Enterprises, Inc. was a television program distributor established in July 1953 as ABC Film Syndication, the domestic and overseas program distribution arm of the ABC Television Network.

ABC Films was spun off and renamed Worldvision on March 30, 1973.

Coincidentally, Hanna-Barbera has also produced two animated TV series based on The Addams Family, one of which came after H-B was sold to Turner ( and was produced in the aftermath of the successful 1991 film ), while the other was produced in the early 1970s, and thus was once distributed by Worldvision.

Under Taft's ownership, WTAF soon established itself as a local powerhouse, and ran programs from Taft's archive, such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, which from 1979 onward were distributed by Worldvision Enterprises ( which Taft had purchased ), and later on the Quinn Martin library.

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

Television rights are now handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, which in 2009 took over from CBS Television Distribution, successor to various related companies, including Worldvision Enterprises, Republic, and NTA.

** Television series distributed by Worldvision Enterprises

The series is in first-run syndication and distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the successor company to its previous distributors Worldvision Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and CBS Paramount Domestic Television.

A majority of the episodes in the North American DVD versions have scenes cut from the episodes — these are derived from the syndicated television versions by Worldvision Enterprises, the series former distributor.

Worldvision Enterprises later became the series ' distributor, and the rights currently are held by Worldvision successor CBS Television Distribution.

Television rights to The Jackson 5ive are owned by CBS Television Distribution due to being the successor to Worldvision Enterprises.

Paramount Domestic Television would later absorb syndication companies that the latter two had once owned: Rysher Entertainment ( formerly owned by Cox ) and Worldvision Enterprises ( formerly owned by Taft / Great American ).

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.

* 1979: Worldvision acquired by Taft Entertainment Company ( TECO )

* 1988: Worldvision acquired by Spelling from Great American Broadcasting ( successor to Taft beginning in 1987 ).

Screen Gems originally syndicated the series, followed later by Rhodes Productions, Taft H-B Program Sales, Worldvision Enterprises, then Turner Broadcasting, and now Warner Bros. Television ( through their 1996 purchase of Turner ).

Taft later bought ABC's former syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises, in 1979 ( ABC spun off this division in 1973 as a result of fin-syn laws, which have since been repealed ).

Even after going through three owners within the same year, the station did not change its programming format, aside from adding more programming owned by Taft and distributed by new sister company Worldvision Enterprises, such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

In 1988, Great American Broadcasting, the successor to Taft, sold much of the Taft Entertainment Company, including Worldvision, to Aaron Spelling Productions and became part of Spelling, Inc .-the rights to most of the Taft Entertainment library were included.

When it first aired, The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera could be seen on all independent stations owned by Taft Broadcasting, the parent of Hanna-Barbera and Worldvision at the time.

ABC Radio conceded the battle at the end of the year, selling both KQV and WDVE off to Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting ( who later bought ABC's former television syndication arm, Worldvision Enterprises ).

* 1988: Aaron Spelling Productions acquires Laurel Entertainment, Inc. and Worldvision Enterprises Inc.

In later years, Aaron Spelling consolidated his companies, and Worldvision as a wholly functioning unit ceased to exist and became folded into Republic Pictures ( which Spelling bought in 1994 ), although Worldvision as a distribution unit continued for many years after until Spelling / Republic merged with Viacom ( which also started as a syndication arm of a television network, in this case CBS ) in 1999, the same year Viacom announced its acquisition of former parent CBS ( completed in 2000 ).

* CBS Home Entertainment ( distributed by Paramount ) handles the video rights to the TV shows from Aaron Spelling ( excepting certain shows owned by Sony Pictures Television ), Quinn Martin ( with few exceptions ), and Republic ( including some pre-1973 NBC shows ); they also have released the first season of another Worldvision program, One Step Beyond ( an in-house production of ABC ), to DVD.

* 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.

Republic would become part of the Spelling Entertainment organization in 1994 through Worldvision Enterprises.