Viacom
Paramount's former parent
Viacom is an American media conglomerate that has owned major entertainment properties including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures.
The company has gone through various mergers and splits, most recently combining with CBS to form Paramount Global.
In casual usage, Viacom often serves as shorthand for the corporate machinery behind popular cable television: Every channel I watched as a kid was owned by Viacom.
Children's entertainment channel
- MTVYouth-oriented video network
- Comedy CentralCable channel for humor programming
- Paramount PicturesMajor Hollywood film studio
- BETBlack-focused cable station
Showtime · VH1 · TV Land · CMT · Nick Jr. · Nicktoons · TeenNick · Channel 5
Movie or coating
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- sitcomsHumorous television series
dramas · reality · blockbuster · cinema · streaming · Hollywood · box office · screenplay
Corporation spanning many industries
- mergerCorporate combination
- subsidiaryOf lesser importance
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- spin-offDerivative from a parent
shareholders · headquarters · CEO · boardroom · executive · revenue · restructuring · diversification
Nickelodeon
Children's entertainment channel
- MTVYouth-oriented video network
- Comedy CentralCable channel for humor programming
- Paramount PicturesMajor Hollywood film studio
BET · Showtime · VH1 · TV Land · CMT · Nick Jr. · Nicktoons · TeenNick · Channel 5 · Spike
film
Movie or coating
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
sitcoms · dramas · reality · blockbuster · cinema · streaming · Hollywood · box office · screenplay · production
conglomerate
Corporation spanning many industries
- mergerCorporate combination
- subsidiaryOf lesser importance
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
spin-off · shareholders · headquarters · CEO · boardroom · executive · revenue · restructuring · diversification · portfolio
- media companiesDisney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Comcast
- Media MogulsRupert Murdoch, William Randolph Hearst, Ted Turner, Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Bloomberg
- Media Ownershipmedia ownership, media mergers, media monopolies, media conglomerates, media outlets
- TV NetworksABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, CNN
- conglomeratesGeneral Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, Honeywell, Samsung, Siemens
- syndicatessyndicate, crime syndicate, betting syndicate, cartel, consortium
Viacomsmall
Limited in size
community radio · public access television · grassroots media