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1886 | Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company |
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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 |
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1916 | Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount |
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1927 | Famous Players–Lasky renamed to Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation; CBS is founded with investment from Columbia Records |
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1929 | Paramount acquires 49% of CBS |
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1930 | Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation renamed to Paramount Publix Corporation |
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1932 | Paramount sells back its shares of CBS |
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1934 | Gulf+Western is founded as the Michigan Bumper Corporation |
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1935 | Paramount Publix Corporation renamed to Paramount Pictures |
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1936 | National Amusements is founded as Northeast Theater Corporation |
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1938 | CBS acquires Columbia Records |
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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 acquires Paramount |
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1967 | Gulf+Western acquires Desilu and renames it Paramount Television (now CBS Studios) |
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1968 | CBS Films renamed to CBS Enterprises |
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1970 | CBS Enterprises renamed to Viacom |
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1971 | Viacom is spun off from CBS |
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1987 | National Amusements acquires Viacom |
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1988 | CBS sells Columbia Records to Sony |
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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 acquires CBS |
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1997 | Westinghouse renamed to CBS Corporation |
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2000 | Viacom acquires UPN and CBS Corporation |
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2005 | Viacom splits into second CBS Corporation and Viacom |
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2006 | CBS Corporation shuts down UPN and replaces it with The CW |
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2017 | CBS Corporation sells CBS Radio to Entercom (now Audacy) |
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2019 | CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge as ViacomCBS |
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2022 | ViacomCBS renamed to Paramount Global |
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2024 | Skydance Media and Paramount Global agree to merge |
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