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===Former divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures=== * [[Paramount Digital Entertainment]] (Dormant) * [[Paramount Television|Paramount Television (original)]] (now [[CBS Studios]]) ** [[Big Ticket Entertainment]] (semi-in-name-only since 2006; currently produces ''[[The Drew Barrymore Show]]'' and ''[[Hot Bench]]'') ** [[Spelling Television]] (in-name-only since 2006) ** [[Viacom Productions]] (folded into PNT in 2004) ** Wilshire Court Productions (shut down in 2003) ** [[Paramount Domestic Television]] (now [[CBS Media Ventures]]) *** Folded Viacom Enterprises in 1995 and [[Rysher Entertainment]] and [[Worldvision Enterprises]] in 1999 *** RTV News, Inc., producer of ''[[Real TV]]'' and ''[[Maximum Exposure]]'' ** [[UPN|United Paramount Network (UPN)]] β formerly a joint venture with [[BHC Communications#United Television|United Television]], now part of Nexstar/Paramount Global/Warner Bros. Discovery joint venture [[The CW|The CW Television Network]] ** [[Paramount Stations Group]] (now [[CBS News and Stations]]) ** [[USA Network]]s (also including the [[Syfy|Sci-Fi Channel]]) β Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50% owner (with [[Universal Pictures]]) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount/Viacom sold their stake to Universal (now part of [[NBCUniversal]]) ** Paramount International Television β merged with '''CBS Broadcast International''' in 2004 to form [[CBS Studios International]] * [[Paramount Television Studios]] β second television division (2013β2024); operations folded into CBS Studios ** Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution β merged in 2020 with CBS Studios International to form [[Paramount Global Content Distribution|ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group]] * [[Fleischer Studios]] β purchased in 1942 and organized as [[Famous Studios]] (which shut down in 1967); library folded into [[Paramount Animation]]. * [[Terrytoons]] β purchased by [[Viacom (1952β2006)|CBS Films]] (later [[Viacom (1952β2006)|Viacom International]]) in 1956; theatrical library moved to [[Paramount Animation]] following [[2019 merger of CBS and Viacom|re-merger of ViacomCBS]] in 2019. * [[Paramount Famous Productions]] β direct-to-video division (2007β2011) * [[Paramount Parks]] β purchased by [[Cedar Fair|Cedar Fair Entertainment Company]] in 2006 * [[Paramount Vantage|Paramount Classics/Paramount Vantage]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Brad Grey |url=http://www.paramount.com/inside-studio/studio/executives/meet-executives/brad-grey |work=Inside the Studio |publisher=Paramount Picture Corporation |access-date=February 7, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208211235/http://www.paramount.com/inside-studio/studio/executives/meet-executives/brad-grey |archive-date=February 8, 2013}}</ref> β Paramount Classics merged into Paramount Vantage; the latter then went dormant in December 2013 * [[DreamWorks Pictures|DW Studios, LLC]] (also DW Pictures) β defunct, holding film library and rights, principal officers left to recreate DreamWorks as an independent company ** DW Funding LLC β DreamWorks live-action library (pre-09/16/2005; DW Funding, LLC) sold to Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II and purchased back in 2010<ref>{{cite news |last=Fixmer |first=Andy |title=Viacom Acquires Soros Stake in Films for $400 Million (Update3) |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5_oOCdFObtM |access-date=February 7, 2013 |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date=February 11, 2010 |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105024827/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5_oOCdFObtM |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Go Fish Pictures]] β [[Arthouse film|Arthouse]]/[[Independent film]] unit for used distributing DreamWorks Pictures foreign films; defunct in 2007 after parent company's sale * Paramount Theatres Limited β Founded 1930 in the United Kingdom with the opening of a cinema in [[Manchester]]. Several Paramount Theatres had opened or had been acquired in the United Kingdom during the 1930s before being sold to [[The Rank Organisation]] becoming part of the [[Odeon Cinemas]] chain in 1939. * [[Epix]] (now [[MGM+]]) β 49.76% owner (with [[MetroβGoldwynβMayer]] and [[Lionsgate]]) from 2009 until 2017, when Paramount/Viacom and Lionsgate sold their stakes to MGM * [[Insurge Pictures]] β micro-budget film division (March 2010 β 2015);<ref name=ip /> absorbed into Paramount itself * [[Republic Pictures]] * "Continental CafΓ©" β the commissary run by Pauline Kessinger until the cafe was replaced by the [[Adolph Zukor|Zukor]] Building in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/hollywood-studio-commissary-secrets-stars-favorite-recipes-revealed-unpublished-memoir-1226504/item/pauline-kessinger-recipes-veronica-lakes-meat-loaf-1226506 |last=Baum |first=Gary |date=June 25, 2019 |title=Hollywood Studio Commissary Secrets (and Stars' Favorite Recipes) Revealed in Unpublished Memoir |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=July 15, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715205950/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/hollywood-studio-commissary-secrets-stars-favorite-recipes-revealed-unpublished-memoir-1226504/item/pauline-kessinger-recipes-veronica-lakes-meat-loaf-1226506 |archive-date=July 15, 2020}}</ref> * [[Rede Telecine]] (co-owned with [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]'s [[Metro-Goldwyn Mayer]], [[The Walt Disney Company]]'s [[The Walt Disney Company Latin America]], [[Grupo Globo]]'s [[Canais Globo]] and Comcast's Universal Pictures)
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