<P> Original Paramount Television now CBS Television Studios </P> <Ul> <Li> Big Ticket Entertainment (semi-in - name - only since 2006, only shows running is Judge Judy and Hot Bench) </Li> <Li> Spelling Television (in - name - only since 2006) </Li> <Li> Viacom Productions (folded into PNT in 2004) </Li> <Li> Wilshire Court Productions (shut down in 2003) <Ul> <Li> Paramount Domestic Television, now CBS Television Distribution <Ul> <Li> Folded Viacom Enterprises in 1995 and Rysher Entertainment and Worldvision Enterprises in 1999 </Li> <Li> RTV News, Inc., producer of Real TV and Maximum Exposure </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> United Paramount Network (UPN)--formerly a joint venture with United Television, now part of the CBS / Time Warner joint venture The CW Television Network </Li> <Li> Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations) </Li> <Li> USA Networks (also including what is now called Syfy)--Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50% owner (with Universal Studios) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal (now part of NBCUniversal) </Li> <Li> Paramount International Television (now CBS Studios International) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Paramount Parks (Purchased by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 2006) </Li> <Li> DW Studios, LLC (also DW Pictures)--defunct, holding film library and rights, principal officers left to recreate DreamWorks as an independent company <Ul> <Li> DW Funding LLC--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 </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Paramount Theatres Limited - 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's, Odeon Cinemas chain in 1939 . </Li> <Li> Epix--49, 76% owner (with Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer and Lionsgate) from 2009 until 2017, when Paramount / Viacom and Lionsgate sold their stake to MGM </Li> </Ul> <Li> Big Ticket Entertainment (semi-in - name - only since 2006, only shows running is Judge Judy and Hot Bench) </Li> <Li> Spelling Television (in - name - only since 2006) </Li>

During the 1930s paramount was one of the major movie studios