See also

• Paramount Pictures

Paramount can refer to several entities:

Media

Motion picture production and home video companies

• Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company (owned by Viacom)
  • Paramount Pictures Corporation, a motion picture company
    • Paramount Vantage, specialty film division of Paramount Pictures
    • Paramount Home Entertainment, home video division of Paramount Pictures
• CBS Paramount Television, a television studio and library (owned by CBS Corporation)
  • Paramount Television, former incarnation of above (owned by Viacom from 1994-2005)

Television networks and national television channels

• 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 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)

Record labels

• Paramount Records, a defunct record label
• Paramount Records (1969), a defunct record label owned by the aforementioned studio

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
• Paramount Training and Development

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