Skydance-Paramount merger closes (2025-08-07)

CTL-E-4571 · Event · other · 2025

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The Skydance Media / Paramount Global merger closes August 7, 2025, forming Paramount Skydance Corporation and ending the Redstone family's control via National Amusements.

Notes

RELP105 supporting event entity; events.json CTL-EVT-023309.

Relationships

Viacom acquisition of BET — related to
National Amusements, whose acquisition of BET Holdings made BET a Viacom asset, was absorbed when the Skydance-Paramount merger closed August 7, 2025, ending Redstone family control.

Sources

Wikipedia, 'Merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merger_of_Skydance_Media_and_Paramount_Global

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