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Paramount International Networks
Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international counterpart to the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Skydance that oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of its brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Network, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET, as well as CBS-branded channels co-owned with AMC Networks International. PIN also owned a 30% stake in the Rainbow S.p.A. animation studio in Italy from 2011 to 2023 and a majority-then-later-minority stake in Viacom18, an Indian joint venture with domestic partner TV18, from 2007 to 2024.
The division is headquartered within offices of the former Paramount Global in New York City and London, with other international offices located in São Paulo, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Lagos, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Budapest, Belgrade and Sydney amongst others. Its first international offices opened in the late 1980s in London and Amsterdam with the launch of MTV Europe (now MTV Global). It was created from a rebrand of predecessor Viacom's MTV Networks, which included MTV, BET, VH1 and Nickelodeon, to include Comedy Central. MTV Asia was a leader against rival Channel V in China, India and South Korea in 1999.
Currently led by Pam Kaufman as part of her broader role as president and CEO of international markets, the division under one of its previous names "Viacom International Media Networks" was previously led from 2011 to 2016 by Bob Bakish, in one of his many roles at the company, having joined Paramount Global's predecessor, Viacom, in its first incarnation in 1997. In 2016, Bakish was promoted to CEO of the second incarnation of Viacom and stayed on as such following its merger with CBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS, renamed Paramount Global in 2022. He resigned as CEO and left the company on 29 April 2024.
In June 2008, MTV Networks International partnered with Dutch entertainment company Endemol to launch its joint-venture Dutch comedy channel under the former's Comedy Central brand with the new comedy channel being named Comedy Central Family.
In November 2009, MTV Networks International teamed up with Abu Dhabi-based entertainment company Twofour54 to establish a Arabian comedy content production studio that would produce and develop local Arabic-language comedy content for the Middle East called Comedy Central Studios Arabia, the new studio would be headquarted at Twofour54's Abu Dhabi offices and would also adapt localized versions of Comedy Central's programming library for the Arabic market.
On July 29, 2010, MTV Networks International announced its launching of its Hebrew-language television channel entitled Comedy Central Isarel which had launched the following year on January 1 2011, marking the ten country to use the Comedy Central brand.
In May 2011 following MTV Networks International renaming to Viacom International Media Networks and its launch of Dutch channel Comedy Central Family with global production & distribution studio Endemol three years ago in 2008, Viacom International Media Networks alongside global Dutch entertainment production & distribution giant Endemol had expanded their partnership with the two companies had established a female-skewed entertainment channel based in Poland that will target women aged 16 to 49 named Viacom Blink!, the launch of the new entertainment channel Viacom Blink! had gained Viacom International Media Networks another entertainment channel in its portfolio as Viacom Internation Media Networks have licensed Endemol's programming library to the new channel under a programming deal with the former planning to launch the channel to other countries.
At the start of May 2014, Viacom International Media Networks announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire British free-to-air public broadcast television channel Channel 5 alongside its parent company Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited and its three entertainment channels 5* and US programming-focus channel 5USA from Richard Desmond's British publishing company Northern & Shell for £450m (US$759 million).
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Paramount International Networks
Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international counterpart to the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Skydance that oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of its brands outside of the United States. These brands include Paramount Network, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET, as well as CBS-branded channels co-owned with AMC Networks International. PIN also owned a 30% stake in the Rainbow S.p.A. animation studio in Italy from 2011 to 2023 and a majority-then-later-minority stake in Viacom18, an Indian joint venture with domestic partner TV18, from 2007 to 2024.
The division is headquartered within offices of the former Paramount Global in New York City and London, with other international offices located in São Paulo, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Lagos, Madrid, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Singapore, Budapest, Belgrade and Sydney amongst others. Its first international offices opened in the late 1980s in London and Amsterdam with the launch of MTV Europe (now MTV Global). It was created from a rebrand of predecessor Viacom's MTV Networks, which included MTV, BET, VH1 and Nickelodeon, to include Comedy Central. MTV Asia was a leader against rival Channel V in China, India and South Korea in 1999.
Currently led by Pam Kaufman as part of her broader role as president and CEO of international markets, the division under one of its previous names "Viacom International Media Networks" was previously led from 2011 to 2016 by Bob Bakish, in one of his many roles at the company, having joined Paramount Global's predecessor, Viacom, in its first incarnation in 1997. In 2016, Bakish was promoted to CEO of the second incarnation of Viacom and stayed on as such following its merger with CBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS, renamed Paramount Global in 2022. He resigned as CEO and left the company on 29 April 2024.
In June 2008, MTV Networks International partnered with Dutch entertainment company Endemol to launch its joint-venture Dutch comedy channel under the former's Comedy Central brand with the new comedy channel being named Comedy Central Family.
In November 2009, MTV Networks International teamed up with Abu Dhabi-based entertainment company Twofour54 to establish a Arabian comedy content production studio that would produce and develop local Arabic-language comedy content for the Middle East called Comedy Central Studios Arabia, the new studio would be headquarted at Twofour54's Abu Dhabi offices and would also adapt localized versions of Comedy Central's programming library for the Arabic market.
On July 29, 2010, MTV Networks International announced its launching of its Hebrew-language television channel entitled Comedy Central Isarel which had launched the following year on January 1 2011, marking the ten country to use the Comedy Central brand.
In May 2011 following MTV Networks International renaming to Viacom International Media Networks and its launch of Dutch channel Comedy Central Family with global production & distribution studio Endemol three years ago in 2008, Viacom International Media Networks alongside global Dutch entertainment production & distribution giant Endemol had expanded their partnership with the two companies had established a female-skewed entertainment channel based in Poland that will target women aged 16 to 49 named Viacom Blink!, the launch of the new entertainment channel Viacom Blink! had gained Viacom International Media Networks another entertainment channel in its portfolio as Viacom Internation Media Networks have licensed Endemol's programming library to the new channel under a programming deal with the former planning to launch the channel to other countries.
At the start of May 2014, Viacom International Media Networks announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire British free-to-air public broadcast television channel Channel 5 alongside its parent company Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited and its three entertainment channels 5* and US programming-focus channel 5USA from Richard Desmond's British publishing company Northern & Shell for £450m (US$759 million).