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Paramount

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Paramount may refer to:

Entertainment and music companies

  • Paramount Pictures, a motion picture studio that is part of Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by ViacomCBS. The following companies are historically linked not necessarily by current ownership.
    • CBS All Access, an American streaming video service to be called Paramount+
    • Paramount Communications, a company known as Gulf and Western Industries until 1989
    • Paramount Home Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures for home video distribution founded in 1976
    • Paramount Network, a current cable network previously called TNN and Spike TV
    • Paramount Parks, a former subsidiary chain of theme parks, owned by Cedar Fair since 2006
    • Paramount Records (1969), a defunct record label subsidiary
    • Paramount Television Studios, current incarnation of Paramount Television, 2013–present
    • Paramount Television (original), original incarnation of Paramount Television, active 1967–2006
    • Paramount Television Network, a defunct TV network founded in the late 1940s
    • Paramount Television Service, a planned, but aborted, commercial television network from the late 1970s
    • Paramount Vantage, a specialty film division of Paramount Pictures founded (as Paramount Classics) in 1998
    • Paramount Animation, an animation studio and division of Paramount Pictures founded in 2011
    • Paramount Players, a contemporary film division of Paramount Pictures founded in 2017
    • United Paramount Network (UPN), a defunct American television network in existence from 1995 to 2006
    • United Paramount Theatres, a defunct movie theater chain

Other companies

  • Paramount Resources, a Canadian petroleum company
  • Paramount Group, a South African defense company

Places

  • Paramount, California, USA, a city in Los Angeles County
  • The Paramount at Buckhead, a residential skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Paramount Park (German Night Club) a former night club in Hesse, Germany.

Transportation

  • Paramount Airways, an airline based in Chennai, India
  • Paramount Cars, a specialist British car maker active between 1950 and 1956
  • Schwinn Paramount, a high-end racing bicycle

Other uses

  • Paramount chief, the highest-level traditional (usually tribal) chief or political leader in a region or country
  • Paramount leader, the highest leader in the People's Republic of China
  • Lord Paramount, overlord, a lord who held his fief from no superior lord
  • Paramount, a difficulty level in Dance Dance Revolution
  • Paramount interests, interests that are not guaranteed under Torrens title system of property law

See also

  • Paramount Theater (disambiguation)
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