List of assets owned by Paramount Global

Paramount Global is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City. The company works in the following areas: film, television, and cable network operations.

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 Home Entertainment
• Paramount Music
• Melange Pictures

Paramount Motion Picture Group

• Paramount Pictures
  • Nickelodeon Movies
• Paramount Animation
• 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]
• Paramount Television International Studios
  • TIS Productions (majority stake)^[6]
  • Porta dos Fundos (51%)^[7]
  • Paramount Global Content Distribution

Paramount Streaming

• Paramount+
• FuboTV (undisclosed stake)^[8]
• Pluto TV
  • Pluto TV Europe

Paramount Media Networks

Nickelodeon Networks

• Nickelodeon
  • Nick at Nite
• Nick Jr. Channel (block)
• Nicktoons
• TeenNick
• NickMusic

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

MTV Entertainment Group

• MTV
  • MTV2
  • MTV Classic
  • MTV Live
  • MTVU
  • Tr3s
• Comedy Central
  • Comedy Central Records
  • South Park Digital Studios (joint venture with Park County)
• CMT
  • CMT Music
• Logo
• Paramount Network^[12][13]
• Pop TV^[14]
• Smithsonian Channel
• TV Land
• VH1

Showtime Networks

Source:^[15][16]

• Paramount+ with Showtime
  • Showtime 2
  • Showcase
  • SHO×BET
  • Showtime Extreme
  • Showtime Family Zone
  • Showtime Next
  • Showtime Women
• The Movie Channel
  • The Movie Channel Xtra
• Flix

CBS Entertainment Group

• CBS^[17]
• CBS News and Stations
  • CBS News
    • CBS News 24/7
    • CBS News Radio
    • CBS MoneyWatch
    • See It Now Studios
  • CBS Television Stations
    • KCBS-TV 2 / KCAL-TV 9 Los Angeles
    • KOVR 13 / KMAX-TV 31 Sacramento – Stockton – Modesto, California
    • KPIX-TV 5 / KPYX 44 San Francisco – Oakland – San Jose, California
    • KCNC-TV 4 Denver, Colorado
    • WFOR-TV 4 / WBFS-TV 33 Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida
    • WTOG 44 St. Petersburg – Tampa, Florida
    • WUPA 69 Atlanta
    • WBBM-TV 2 Chicago
    • WBXI-CD 47 Indianapolis
    • WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore
    • WBZ-TV 4 / WSBK-TV 38 Boston
    • WWJ-TV 62 / WKBD-TV 50 Detroit / Windsor, Ontario
    • WCCO-TV 4 / KCCW-TV 12 Minneapolis–Saint Paul — Walker, Minnesota
    • WCBS-TV 2 / WLNY-TV 55 Riverhead – New York City
    • KYW-TV 3 / WPSG 57 Philadelphia
    • KDKA-TV 2 / WPKD-TV 19 Jeannette – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • KTVT 11 / KTXA 21 Fort Worth – Dallas
    • KSTW 11 Tacoma – Seattle
    • Start TV (50% JV with Weigel Broadcasting)
    • Fave TV^[18]
  • CBS Local Digital
    • CBS News New York
    • CBS News Los Angeles
    • CBS News Boston
    • CBS News Bay Area
    • CBS News Minnesota
    • CBS News Philadelphia
    • CBS News Colorado
    • CBS News Pittsburgh
    • CBS News Chicago
    • CBS News Texas
    • CBS News Sacramento
    • CBS News Baltimore
    • CBS News Miami
    • CBS News Detroit

• BET Media Group
  • BET
  • BET Gospel
  • BET Her
  • BET Jams
  • BET Soul
  • BET Studios^[19]
    • BET Films
  • BET Digital
  • BET+ (operated by Tyler Perry Studios)

CBS Sports

• CBS Sports Network
• CBS Sports HQ
• CBS Sports Golazo Network
• CBS Sports Digital
  • 247Sports
  • MaxPreps
  • CBSSports.com
• CBS Local Sports

Paramount Experiences

• Paramount Themed Entertainment
  • Paramount Parks & Resorts – licensing and design for parks and resorts^[20]

• Paramount Consumer Products^[21][22]
  • Paramount Game Studios
    • Paramount Digital Entertainment
  • Paramount Shop^[23]
  • Paramount Licensing, Inc.
  • Paramount Advertising
    • WhoSay
    • Last.fm

Paramount International Networks

• Nickelodeon
• Nick Jr.
• Nicktoons & TeenNick
• MTV
• Paramount Network
• Comedy Central
• Smithsonian Channel

United Kingdom & Australia

• Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited
  • 5
  • 5Action (formerly Paramount Network)
  • 5Select
  • 5Star
  • 5USA
  • My5 (VOD)
• Network Ten Pty Limited
  • 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^[24]
  • 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)^[25]

• 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

• CBS Broadcast Center
• Ed Sullivan Theater

Former assets

Divested

• AXS TV (20%)^[26] – sold to Anthem Sports & Entertainment in 2019
  • HDNet Movies
• Bellator MMA – Sold to Professional Fighters League in 2023
  • Bellator Kickboxing
• 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
    • Comic Vine
    • GameFAQs
    • Giant Bomb
  • 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)

See also

• National Amusements
• Lists of corporate assets
• List of libraries owned by Paramount Global