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Background

• 1951: Formed by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball as Desilu Productions.
• 1952: CBS formed CBS Productions.
• 1953: CBS formed CBS Films as the distributor.
• 1966: March 24, Gulf+Western acquires Paramount Pictures
• 1967: Desilu Productions was acquired by Gulf+Western. The company was renamed to Paramount Television in December.
• 1971: CBS Films was spun-off as Video & Audio Communications (or Viacom).
• 1974: Viacom Productions, a television company, was formed by Viacom.
• 1989: June 5, Gulf+Western was reincorporated as Paramount Communications, Inc.
• 1994: March 11, Viacom acquired Paramount Communications, resulting in the formation of Paramount/Viacom as a byline for several of Viacom's subsidiaries.
• 1995: Viacom Enterprises was renamed to Paramount Domestic Television. The name Paramount Network Television (PNT) was also used for the first time ever (Viacom Productions would also become a division of PNT).
• 1995: Viacom launched the United Paramount Network (UPN) with Chris-Craft Industries.
• 1995: Westinghouse Electric acquires CBS and the company is renamed to CBS, Inc.
• 1995: Group W Productions is renamed to Eyemark Entertainment.
• 1999: Viacom acquired 80% of Spelling Entertainment Group (Such as Spelling Television) and Rysher Entertainment's TV holdings.
• 1999: Viacom merged with its creator CBS.
• 2000: In January, CBS acquired King World Productions (KWP) and forms CBS Enterprises, Inc.
• 2000: After Viacom's merger with CBS, Paramount TV acquired CBS Enterprises, which included King World Productions at that time.
• 2004: Viacom merged the international television banners of CBS Broadcast International and Paramount International Television to form CBS Paramount International Television.
• 2004: Viacom Productions was folded into Paramount Television by ceasing its television operations.
• 2006: When the CBS/Viacom split took effect, CBS inherited Paramount's TV program library, with Viacom keeping Paramount's films.
• 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.[1]
• 2006: CBS Corp. merged its TV distribution arms; King World, CBS Paramount International Television and CBS Paramount Domestic Television to form CBS Television Distribution (CTD).

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The company

According to the CBS Corporation website, CBS Paramount Television (CPT) comprises three divisions: CBS Paramount Network Television (the division's production arm), CBS Paramount Domestic Television (which distributes the division's television holdings within the United States), and CBS Paramount International Television (which distributes programming outside the United States). Today, CPT comprises two divisions: CBS Paramount Network Television and CBS Television Distribution. CBS Paramount International Television (CPITV) is a multinational television production/distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television and owned by CBS Corporation that was formed in 2004 by Viacom, as a result of a merger between two television companies, CBS Broadcast International and Paramount International Television. ...

The studio has an output deal with Australia's Channel Ten, which means that Ten usually gets first airing rights to the studio's productions. Channel Ten is one of Australias three commercial television channels, broadcasted by Network Ten. ...

King World Productions

Today, KWP is a division of CTD. But, in the U.S., King World distributes its product independently from CPT, while internationally CBS Paramount Television handles distribution and sales.

Libraries

Among CBS Paramount Television's holdings are libraries from the following:

• Its own studio including:
  • Some of Paramount's silent films from 1923-28, and sound films from 1950 onward
    • Many of the silent films (especially those before 1923) are in the public domain, and may be distributed by companies which distribute public domain features on TV. Yet another portion of the silent films are lost.
    • This library does not include most of the Paramount's pre-1950 theatrical sound features, which are owned by EMKA, Ltd., a name-only division of NBC Universal's Universal Studios.
  • Shows produced by Paramount Television
  • Programs acquired from Desilu
  • Group W Productions
• Bing Crosby Productions
• some of the Rysher Entertainment programs
• Viacom including:
  • The CBS catalog [which includes The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy (which CBS bought back from Desilu)]
  • The Terrytoons library
  • Viacom's in-house productions (such as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Matlock and Diagnosis: Murder)
  • The television rights to most of the Cannon Films library
• Spelling Entertainment Group: which includes
  • Much of the Aaron Spelling and Quinn Martin libraries
  • Pre-1973 ABC and NBC shows, as well as Little House on the Prairie (premiered in 1974)
  • Big Ticket Television
  • Republic Pictures including:
  • much of its own library of films and in-house TV series
  • The inherited holdings of National Telefilm Associates (NTA), which itself includes:
    • It's a Wonderful Life
    • Most of Paramount's own classic animated library
    • Some early United Artists material (including High Noon)
    • Worldvision Enterprises
      • The television rights to most of the Carolco Pictures library
• King World Productions (distributed separately until 2007)

Around the same time of CPT's formation, Viacom completed its acquisition of DreamWorks SKG, so CBS Paramount Television will now distribute DreamWorks' library of films (such as Shrek and Gladiator) in co-operation with Tribune Entertainment, while being solely responsible for DreamWorks' TV series (such as Spin City, which Paramount TV had already syndicated since 2000, and Father of the Pride). The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... A lost film is a film which, for any of several reasons, is no longer in existence. ... EMKA, Ltd. ... NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ... 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Past names

• Desilu Productions (1951-1967)
• Paramount Television (1967-2006)
• CBS Productions (1952-2006)

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See also

• CBS Paramount Domestic Television
• DreamWorks Television

CBS Paramount Domestic Television (CPDT) (formerly CBS Films, Viacom Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and WorldVision Enterprises) is an American television distribution/production that was formed on January 17, 2006 and owned by CBS Corporation. ... DreamWorks Television is a television production company that is a division of DreamWorks SKG, a subsidiary of Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures. ...

External links

• CBS Paramount Television (site under construction)