List of assets owned by Paramount Global

The following is a list of major assets that are owned by Paramount Global,^[1] an American multinational media conglomerate headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Paramount Pictures Corporation

Paramount Studio Group – physical studio and post-production
- The Studios at – production facilities & lot
- Paramount on Location – production support facilities throughout North America including New York, Vancouver, and Atlanta
- Worldwide Technical Operations – archives, restoration and preservation programs, the mastering and distribution fulfillment services, on-lot post-production facilities management

Paramount Motion Picture Group

Paramount Pictures
- Nickelodeon Movies
Paramount Animation
Skydance Productions
Skydance Animation
- Skydance Animation Madrid
Paramount Players^[2]
Republic Pictures
Miramax (49%, co-owned with beIN Media Group)
Paramount Pictures Domestic Distribution (North American exhibition)
Paramount Pictures International (International distribution)
United International Pictures (50%, with NBCUniversal via Universal Pictures)

Paramount Television Group

CBS Studios
- Big Ticket Television
- CBS Media Ventures
  - CBS Media Ventures Media Sales
  - Dabl
- CBS Eye Animation Productions^[3]
  - Late Night Cartoons, Inc.
- MTV Entertainment Studios
  - MTV Animation Inc.
  - MTV Documentary Films
- Nickelodeon Productions
  - New Games Productions, Inc.
  - Uptown Productions, Inc.
  - Nickelodeon Animation Studios Inc.
    - Avatar Studios^[4]
    - Nickelodeon Digital
  - Paws, Inc.^[5]
- Skydance Television
Paramount Television International Studios
- TIS Productions (majority stake)^[6]
- Porta dos Fundos (51%)^[7]
- Paramount Global Content Distribution

Paramount Streaming

Paramount+
Mixible
My5
FuboTV (undisclosed stake)^[8]
Pluto TV
- Pluto TV Europe

Paramount Media Networks

Nickelodeon Networks

AwesomenessTV

Awesomeness Ink^[9]
Awesomeness Films^[10]
Awesomeness News^[11]

CBS Sports

Paramount Experiences

Paramount Themed Entertainment
- Paramount Parks & Resorts – licensing and design for parks and resorts^[19]

Paramount Consumer Products^[20]^[21]
- Paramount Game Studios/Skydance Interactive
  - Paramount Digital Entertainment/Skydance New Media
- Paramount Shop^[22]
- Paramount Licensing, Inc.
- Paramount Advertising
  - WhoSay
  - Last.fm

Paramount International Networks

United Kingdom & Australia

Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited
- Channel 5
- 5Action (formerly Paramount Network)
- 5Select
- 5Star
- 5USA
- My5 (VOD)
Ten Network Holdings
- Network 10
  - ATV Melbourne
  - TEN Sydney
  - TVQ Brisbane
  - ADS Adelaide
  - NEW Perth
- 10 Peach
- 10 Bold
- 10 HD
- 10 Play
- Gecko
- Nickelodeon Australia (formerly 10 Shake)

The Americas

Chilevisión
NickMusic Latin America
Telefe
- Telefe Internacional
- Telefe Rosario
- Telefe Córdoba
- Telefe Santa Fe
- Mi Telefe

EMEAA

Ananey Communications^[23]
- Ego
- The Food Channel
- The Travel Channel
- The Good Life Channel
- Health Channel
- Hot Comedy Central
- Nutz Productions
- Shamaim Productions
- Mars Interactive
- Post Office Post Production & Creative
BET France
Game One
J-One
NickMusic EMEA
Super!

Miscellaneous

Joint ventures

Film Cafe (Poland; with AMC Networks International)
CBS Reality (with AMC Networks International)
True Crime (with AMC Networks International UK)^[24]

Legend (with AMC Networks International UK)
The CW (12.5% each with Warner Bros. Discovery; 75% majority stake held by Nexstar Media Group)
- The CW Plus
Philo (joint venture with A&E Networks, AMC Networks, and Warner Bros. Discovery)
SkyShowtime (joint venture with Comcast's Sky Group)

Other

Former assets

Divested

AXS TV (20%)^[25] – sold to Anthem Sports & Entertainment in 2019
- HDNet Movies
Bellator MMA – Sold to Professional Fighters League in 2023
- Bellator Kickboxing
BET Media Group - (sale pending)
- BET
- BET Gospel
- BET Her
- BET Jams
- BET Soul
- BET Studios^[26]
  - BET Films
- BET Digital
- BET+ (operated by Tyler Perry Studios)
Blockbuster – spun off in 2004
- DEJ Productions
- Discovery Zone
- GameRush
- Gamestation
- KPS Video Express
- Xtra-vision
CBS Building – purchased by Harbor Group International in 2021
CBS/Columbia Records – sold to Sony in 1987, renamed Sony Music Entertainment in 1991
- CBS Records International
- Columbia House
- CBS Music Publishing – sold to SBK Entertainment World in 1986
CBS Educational and Professional Publishing – sold to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986
- Praeger Publishers – sold to Greenwood Press
CBS Eye on People – acquired by Discovery Communications in 1998/1999
CBS/Fox Video
CBS Musical Instruments
CBS Outdoor (now Outfront Media) – spun off into an independent real estate investment trust in 2014
- CBS Outdoor International – sold to Platinum Equity in 2013
- CBS Outernet – renamed Outfront Media Outernet
CBS Radio – merged with Entercom (former CBS Corporation shareholders received a 72% stake in Entercom)
- List of broadcast stations owned by CBS Radio
- Boston Bruins Radio
- CBS Altitude Group
- Eventful
- New York Yankees Radio
- New York Yankees
- Play.it
- Radio.com
CBS Studio Center – sold to Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management in 2021
CBS Telenoticias
CBS Television City – sold to Hackman Capital Partners in 2018
CNET Media Group – sold to Red Ventures in 2020^[27]
- CNET
  - CNET Video
  - Download.com
  - CNET Content Solutions
- Chowhound
- GameSpot
- Metacritic
- MetroLyrics
- TV Guide
- ZDNet
  - TechRepublic
Decades (50%, with Weigel Broadcasting) – Since fall 2019, Decades is carried on Fox-owned stations in 12 markets as part of a multi-year agreement between Weigel Broadcasting and Fox Television Stations, after switching from CBS-owned stations.^[28]
DreamWorks Pictures – spun off in 2008, currently a label of Amblin Partners. However Paramount retains the rights to the studio's pre-2011 back-catalog.
- DreamWorks Home Entertainment
- DreamWorks Television – television production division of DreamWorks.
- Go Fish Pictures – indie film label, shut down in 2007.
Epix – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired Viacom's stake in the network in 2017
Famous Music – in-house music publishing arm of Paramount Pictures, sold to Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2007
Famous Players – sold to Cineplex Galaxy in 2005
- Paramount Theater
- SilverCity
- Colossus
- Coliseum
Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment (Nordic countries, joint venture with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) - shut down in 2020
GameTrailers – sold to Defy Media; later shut down and sold to IGN
Home Team Sports – sold to Comcast in 2000/2001 and renamed Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic
Harmonix
Ideal Toy Company – sold to View-Master in 1986
- Creative Playthings – sold to Swing Design
KVMM-CD – sold to HC2 Holdings in 2019
Lifetime – Viacom sold its stake to co-owners Hearst Communications and Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in 1994
Midwest Sports Channel – acquired by News Corporation in 2000 and renamed Fox Sports Net North
Multi Channel Network – 24.99% stake held by Ten Network Holdings sold to Foxtel on January 1, 2019^[29]
MTV Networks on Campus – acquired by Cheddar in May 2018 and used to launch CheddarU
Neopets – acquired by JumpStart Games in 2014
Nick+ – shut down in 2022
Nickelodeon Games Group
Paramount Parks
Pop Culture Media – sold to Savage Ventures in 2024^[30]^[31]
- ComicBook.com
- PopCulture.com
Prentice Hall – sold to Pearson in 1998
RateMyProfessors.com – acquired by Cheddar in October 2018
Rede Telecine (12.5% each with Disney via Disney Studios, NBCUniversal via Universal Studios, Amazon MGM Studios via Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; 50% with Grupo Globo via Canais Globo)
RTL CBS Entertainment – joint venture with RTL Group; acquired by Blue Ant Media and renamed Blue Ant Entertainment^[32]
- RTL CBS Extreme – renamed Blue Ant Extreme
Orion Pictures - other stake acquired by Viacom in 1986, subsequently it sold to Metromedia in 1987; currently owned by Amazon (through Amazon MGM Studios).
Rainbow S.p.A. – 30% stake purchased by Viacom in 2011 re-acquired by Iginio Straffi in 2023
- Gruppo Iven S.p.A.
  - Colorado Film
- Bardel Entertainment
- Rainbow CGI
- Moviement Talent Agency
- Witty Toys
- Tridimensional S.r.l.
Rysher Entertainment – assets sold to 2929 Entertainment in 2001; library currently owned by Vine Alternative Investments and distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution
Sega
Showtime Arabia – 21%; co-owned with KIPCO; merged with Orbit Communications Company to form Orbit Showtime Network
Simon & Schuster – sold to KKR & Co. Inc. in 2023^[33]
Sundance Channel (now Sundance TV) – sold to Rainbow Media (now AMC Networks) in 2008
Telemeter — spun off in 1966 after Gulf+Western bought Paramount; shut down in 1969
Tempo – sold to Frederick Morton Jr. in 2007
TriStar Pictures – joint venture with Time Inc.'s HBO and Columbia Pictures. In 1985, CBS sold a small percent of TriStar to Columbia and HBO.
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
Virgin Interactive Entertainment – US branch sold to Electronic Arts in 1998 and UK branch sold to Interplay
VidCon – sold to Informa in 2024
Westwood One – sold to The Gores Group in 2008
Westinghouse Licensing Corporation - sold to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 2021
Xfire

Dormant or shuttered

Paramount Pictures

CIC Video – dissolved in 1999
DreamWorks Distribution, LLC – theatrical distribution arm of DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation
DW Funding LLC – library holder of live-action DreamWorks films
Famous Studios (later Paramount Cartoon Studios) – closed after Gulf+Western's acquisition of Paramount Pictures in 1967
Fleischer Studios – acquired by Paramount Pictures and reorganized as Famous Studios in 1942
Insurge Pictures
Liberty Films
Melange Pictures, LLC – library holder of Republic Pictures films
- Budd Rogers Releasing Corporation
- Commonwealth United Entertainment
  - The Landau-Unger Company
    - Astor Pictures
  - United Pictures Corporation
- Enterprise Productions
- Spelling Films
  - Taft International Pictures
    - Sunn Classic Pictures
Paramount Comics – partnership with Marvel Comics for comics based on Paramount's film library
Paramount Famous Productions
Paramount Vantage/Paramount Classics
Screenlife Games
Wilshire Court Productions – made-for-TV movie division; library sold to CBS Corporation in 2006
Paramount DVD
Paramount High Definition
Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution – folded into CBS Media Ventures and Paramount Global Content Distribution

TV Entertainment (CBS Group)

CBS Cable
CBS Connections
CBS Consumer Products^[35] — founded in 2009; folded into Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products forming ViacomCBS Consumer Products (now Paramount Consumer Products)
CBS Vision
Paramount Television Studios
Watch! Magazine

Other assets

CBS Cable Networks – folded into Viacom Media Networks, later renamed to ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (later Paramount Media Networks)
CBS EcoMedia
CBS Experiences Inc.
CBS EYE Productions
CBS Films – Dormant and absorbed into CBS Studios with the theatrical distribution moved to Paramount Pictures in 2019.
CBS Home Entertainment – folded into Paramount Home Entertainment
CBS Innertube
CBS Operations Inc. – Dormant and absorbed into ViacomCBS
CBS Productions – folded into CBS Studios
CBS Records
CBS Satellite Communications
CBS Technology Center
CBS Sporting Club
CBS Stages Canada
CBS Theatrical Films
CBS VFX
Cinema Center Films
Estudios TeleMéxico
FindArticles
King World Productions
- Camelot Entertainment Sales
- Eyemark Entertainment
  - Group W Productions
  - MaXam Entertainment
- King World Direct Inc.
- King World Merchandising, Inc.
Noggin
Paramount Stations Group
Paramount Television
- Desilu Productions
- Viacom Enterprises
  - Terrytoons
- Viacom Productions
  - Viacom Pictures
Raquel Productions
Scout.com
Spelling Television
- Thomas-Spelling Productions
- Laurel Entertainment
- Worldvision Enterprises
  - ABC Films
  - Taft Entertainment Television
    - QM Productions
    - Schick Sunn Classic Productions
    - Titus Productions
  - Evergreen Programs, Inc.
  - Worldvision Home Video LLC
- Charter Company
- Republic Pictures (original)
  - National Telefilm Associates
    - Hollywood Television Service
      - Studio City TV Productions
    - NBC Films
      - California National Productions
    - U.M. & M. TV Corporation
- Spelling Daytime Television
UPN
Viacom Velocity
- Nickelodeon Velocity
  - Nickelodeon Creative Advertising
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (Group W)
  - InterStar Releasing (51% controlling stake)
Viacom Digital Studios
Viacom International Inc. – Dormant and folded into ViacomCBS

Cable networks

All News Channel (50% joint venture with Hubbard Broadcasting)
Atom.com – absorbed into Comedy Central
- AddictingClips.com
The Box
CMT Films
Comedy Central Films
Comedy Central Now
Comedy Central Productions - folded into MTV Entertainment Studios
Defy Media (7%)
- AddictingGames
- Shockwave
GoCityKids.com
iFilm
MTV Urge
MTV Chi
MTV Desi
MTV K
MTV SnowGlobe Music Festival
MTV News
Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids
Nickelodeon Magazine
Nickelodeon on Sunset
Nickelodeon Studios (theme park & productions)
NickMom – TV block on Nick Jr.
Nick Radio
Nickelodeon Records
NickRewind – TV block on TeenNick
Quizilla
VH1 Uno
Viacom Music – music publisher affiliated with BMI
Viacom NEXT
World Sports Enterprises

International networks

5Spike – succeeded by Paramount Network in 2020
Game One Music 3D
Game One Music HD
Kindernet
TMF
Spree TV (50%)
VIVA
Voot – merged into JioCinema in 2023

Joint ventures

Big CBS Prime (joint venture with Reliance Broadcast Network)
Big CBS Love (joint venture with Reliance Broadcast Network)
BIG CBS Spark (joint venture with Reliance Broadcast Network)
CBS Action (joint venture with AMC Networks International)
CBS Justice (joint venture with AMC Networks International UK)

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