From The invisible Empire
The evolution of Paramount |
| 1912 | Famous Players Film Company is founded |
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| 1913 | Lasky Feature Play Company is founded |
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| 1914 | Paramount Pictures is founded as a film distributor |
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| 1916 | Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount |
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| 1920 | Group W forms with the launch of KDKA-AM |
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| 1927 | CBS is founded; Famous Players–Lasky assumes Paramount's name |
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| 1929 | Paramount buys 49% of CBS |
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| 1932 | Paramount sells back shares of CBS |
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| 1950 | Desilu is founded and CBS distributes its television programs |
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| 1952 | CBS creates the CBS Television Film Sales division |
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| 1958 | CBS Television Film Sales renamed to CBS Films |
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| 1966 | Gulf+Western buys Paramount |
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| 1968 | Gulf+Western acquires Desilu and renames it Paramount Television; CBS Films becomes CBS Enterprises |
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| 1970 | CBS Enterprises renamed to Viacom |
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| 1971 | Viacom is spun off from CBS as a separate company |
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| 1985 | Viacom buys full ownership of Showtime and MTV Networks |
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| 1987 | National Amusements buys Viacom |
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| 1989 | Gulf+Western renamed to Paramount Communications |
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| 1994 | Viacom acquires Paramount Communications |
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| 1995 | Westinghouse buys CBS |
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| 1997 | Westinghouse renamed to CBS Corporation |
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| 2000 | Viacom buys CBS Corporation |
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| 2001 | Viacom buys BET Networks |
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| 2005 | Viacom splits into second CBS Corporation and Viacom |
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| 2019 | CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge to form ViacomCBS |
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| 2022 | ViacomCBS changes its name to Paramount Global |
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