Paramount Skydance

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Paramount Skydance Corporation, formerly named Paramount Global, ViacomCBS, and Viacom, is an American conglomerate that owns Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, and SpongeBob SquarePants. It is owned by Skydance Media.

The original incarnation of Viacom was founded in 1952 by CBS as their syndication division (which was later spun-off due to FCC rules at the time), later purchased by National Amusements' Sumner Redstone in 1986. The second incarnation of Viacom was founded in 2005. The third and current incarnation of Viacom was founded on December 4, 2019, when it merged with its former division company CBS, naming it ViacomCBS. On February 15, 2022, ViacomCBS announced that it would change its name to Paramount Global on February 16, 2022. However, the company primarily refers to itself as simply "Paramount."

On July 7, 2024, American media companies Skydance Media and Paramount Global announced a definitive agreement to merge in a deal valued at $8 billion, forming a new entity known as "New Paramount." The agreement values the newly formed entity at approximately $28 billion. The transaction closed on August 7, 2025.

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Viacom's name in The Patrick Star Show episode "Mid-Season Finale."

Viacom's name has been present in the copyright byline for every SpongeBob episode as well as all products, even following the merger with CBS and name change to Paramount. The former Viacom name has also been referred to by name in an episode. In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," the narrator says "The International Justice League of Super Acquaintances! A subsidiary of Viacom," after he introduces all the members of the IJLSA. Viacom's name can also be seen in The Patrick Star Show episode "Mid-Season Finale" on the opening card for the "That's Tinkle" segment.

CBS and Viacom were already sister companies, both controlled by the National Amusements, but now they are operated by the same team together once again.

Paramount Skydance is consistently ranked as one of the largest American entertainment conglomerates, alongside The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., Discovery Global, Versant (formerly known as NBCUniversal), and Sony.

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• The 1990 Viacom logo, which was the logo at the time SpongeBob was first aired.
  The 1990 Viacom logo, which was the logo at the time SpongeBob was first aired.
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Trivia

• In the Latin American dub of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," the phrase was changed to "Subsidiaria de los Hermanos Tu-sabes" (Subsidiary of You-Know Bros), a pun of "Warner Bros."

External links

• Paramount Skydance on Wikipedia