Private company

MTV Entertainment Group

Logo: Paramount Global, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

American mass media division

Paramount Media Networks is the division of Skydance Corporation that oversees the operations of its television channels and online brands. The division was originally founded as MTV Networks in 1984, named after MTV. It would be known under this name until 2011; when it would be thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until 2019; and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks until 2022.2 It is part of Skydance TV.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Aug 1, 1996Founded1

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Paramount Media Networks is the division of Skydance Corporation that oversees the operations of its television channels and online brands. The division was originally founded as MTV Networks in 1984, named after MTV. It would be known under this name until 2011; when it would be thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until 2019; and ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks until 2022.2

Corporate structure

MTV Entertainment Group is part of a group headed by Paramount Global. 1,151 entities, 20 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

  • CMT
  • Comedy Central
  • Logo TV
  • MTV
  • Paramount Network
  • Pop
  • Smithsonian Channel
  • Spike TV
  • TV Land

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

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Timeline

  1. Aug 1, 1996Founded Founded1

Sources

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