Paramount (from the word ''paramount'' meaning "above all others") may refer to:
Entertainment and music companies
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Paramount Global
Paramount Global (Trade name, doing business as Paramount) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquar ...
, also known simply as Paramount, an American mass media company formerly known as ViacomCBS. The following businesses are historically linked to this company, but not all are related by current ownership.
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Paramount+
Paramount+ is an American subscription video on-demand service owned by Paramount Global. The service's content is drawn primarily from the libraries of CBS Media Ventures (including CBS Studios), Paramount Media Networks (formerly Viacom Med ...
, an American streaming video service formerly known as CBS All Access
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Paramount Animation
Paramount Animation is an American animation studio, serving as the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Paramount Global. The division was founded on July 6, 2011, following the box office success of Paramount's own ...
, an animation studio and division of Paramount Pictures founded in 2011
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Paramount Communications, a company known as Gulf and Western Industries until 1989, acquired by Viacom in 1994
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Paramount Home Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures for home video distribution founded in 1976
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Paramount Network, a current cable network previously called TNN and Spike TV
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Paramount Parks, a former subsidiary chain of theme parks
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
, an American film studio, that serves as Paramount Global's namesake
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Paramount Players, a contemporary film division of Paramount Pictures founded in 2017
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Paramount Records (1969), a defunct record label subsidiary
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Paramount Stations Group (PSG), a television stations group
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Paramount Television Studios, the current incarnation of Paramount Television, 2013–present
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Paramount Television (original), the original incarnation of Paramount Television, active 1967–2006
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Paramount Television Network (PTN), a defunct TV network founded in the late 1940s
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Paramount Television Service
The Paramount Television Service (or PTVS for short and also known as Paramount Programming Service) was the name of a proposed but ultimately unrealized " fourth television network" from the U.S. film studio Paramount Pictures (then a unit of ...
(PTVS), a planned, but aborted, commercial television network from the late 1970s
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Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage (also known as Paramount Classics) was a film distribution label of Paramount Pictures (which, in turn, has Paramount Global as its parent company), charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generall ...
, a specialty film division of Paramount Pictures founded (as Paramount Classics) in 1998
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United Paramount Network (UPN), a defunct American television network in existence from 1995 to 2006
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United Paramount Theatres
American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. (originally United Paramount Theatres, later the American Broadcasting Companies and ABC Television) was the post-merger parent company of the American Broadcasting Company and United Paramount Thea ...
, a defunct movie theater chain
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Paramount Records
Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Early years
Paramount Records was formed in ...
, American jazz and blues label
Other companies
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Paramount Resources, a Canadian petroleum company
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Paramount Group, a South African defense company
Transportation
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Paramount Airways, an airline based in Chennai, India
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Paramount Cars, a specialist British car maker active between 1950 and 1956
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Schwinn Paramount, a high-end racing bicycle
Other uses
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Paramount (Shanghai), a Chinese historical nightclub and dance hall
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Paramount, California
Paramount is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. According to the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 54,098, down from 55,266 at the 2000 census. Paramount is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area and is borde ...
, U.S., a city in Los Angeles County
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The Paramount at Buckhead, a residential skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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Paramount Building
1501 Broadway, also known as the Paramount Building, is a 33-story office building on Times Square between West 43rd Street (Manhattan), 43rd and 44th Street (Manhattan), 44th Streets in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District neighb ...
at 1501 Broadway, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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Paramount chief
A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and arc ...
, the highest-level political leader in a region or country
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Paramount Hotel
The Paramount Hotel (formerly the Century-Paramount Hotel) is a hotel in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, the hotel is at 235 West 46th Street, between Eighth A ...
on 46th Street, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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Paramount leader
Paramount leader () is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), often hol ...
, the highest leader in the People's Republic of China
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Paramount Plaza at 1633 Broadway, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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Lord paramount, a lord who held his fief from no superior authority
*Paramount, a difficulty level in ''
Dance Dance Revolution''
See also
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Paramount Theater (disambiguation)
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