Paramount
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Paramount can refer to several entities:
Media
- Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company (owned by Viacom)
- Paramount Pictures, a motion picture company
- Paramount Vantage, specialty film division of Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Home Entertainment, home video division of Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Pictures, a motion picture company
- CBS Paramount Television, a television studio and library (owned by CBS Corporation)
- Paramount Television, former incarnation of above (owned by Viacom from 1994-2005)
- United Paramount Network (UPN): a defunct American television network (originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries and Viacom, then owned solely by Viacom, and owned by CBS Corporation for its last few months of operation)
- Paramount Parks, a defunct chain of theme parks (owned by Viacom from 1994-2005, then CBS Corporation until being sold to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company)
- Paramount Communications, company known as Gulf and Western Industries until 1989, purchased by Viacom in 1994
- Paramount Records, a defunct record label
- Paramount Records (1969), a defunct record label owned by the aforementioned studio
- Paramount Comedy 1 and Paramount Comedy 2, television channels in the UK (owned by Viacom)
- Paramount Comedy (Spain), a television channel in Spain (owned by Viacom)
Theaters
- Paramount Arts Center, a historic theater located in Ashland, Kentucky, USA
- Paramount Ballroom, a ballroom venue in Shanghai
- Paramount Theater
- Paramount Theaters, a Famous Players chain (owned by Cineplex Entertainment)
- United Paramount Theatres, a movie theatre chain divested by Paramount Pictures
Other uses
- Paramount Airways, a low cost airline based in Chennai, India
- Paramount, California, USA, a city in Los Angeles County
- Paramount Cars, a specialist British car maker active between 1950 and 1956
- Paramount Cigarettes
- Paramount Distillers, inc, a producer of alcoholic beverages based in Cleveland, Ohio
- Paramount leader, the highest leader in the People's Republic of China
- Paramount Properties http://www.www.paramount-properties.co.uk, West Hampstead estate agents in north west London
- Paramount Training and Development http://www.[aramountdevelopment.com.au Western Australian Trainers