Awesomeness

Awesomeness (originally founded as AwesomenessTV in 2010) is a digital media company focused on creating content for GenZ through its digital publishing, film and television studio divisions. Since July 2018, it has been owned by Paramount (Viacom until December 5, 2019 and ViacomCBS until February 16, 2022), and before that, it was a joint venture between Hearst Corporation, Verizon Communications and DreamWorks Animation (which in turn owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal).

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AwesomenessTV[]

2010–present[]

Awesomeness[]

2019–present[]

While the larger company started to refer themselves as simply Awesomeness, the former branding was retained to its digital networks.

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2010–2014[]

2014–present[]

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Official website

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Paramount

Part of National Amusements, pending merger with Skydance Media

Home entertainment:
CBS Home Entertainment (CBS Blu-ray | CBS DVD) | Comedy Central Home Entertainment | Paramount Home Entertainment | Paramount Presents

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Paramount Networks Americas

Part of Paramount

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Telefe

Part of Paramount Networks Americas

Former channels & assets
Canal 7 Jujuy | Canal 11 Lapacho | Canal 13 Rio Grande | Radio Continental

Defunct channels
Red de Noticias

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Chilevisión

Part of Paramount Networks Americas

Other resources:
Mi CHV | Chilevisión Música | Chilevisión Live | Chilevisión Deportes

Notes

¹	Owned by Universidad de Chile (former owners of CHV), operating as a secondary channel.
²	Local stations until 1993.
³	Local version of The Voice, previously made by competitor Canal 13, under current license of ITV Studios.
⁴	Under license of Fremantle.
⁵	Under license of Venevisión.
⁶	Under license of Cartoon Network (WarnerMedia).
⁷	Local version of the game show The Alphabet Game.
⁸	Co-production with Iguana Producciones.
⁹	Under the licence of TVE.
¹⁰	Under licence of Telefe.
¹¹	Local version of the Big Brother program, currently licensed by Banijay.
¹²	Alongside all the members of Anatel.

Streaming assets:
Paramount+ | Pluto TV | Mi Telefe¹ | Mi Chilevisión²

Streaming assets:
MTV Play | Nickelodeon Play | Comedy Central Play | Noggin | BET Play

Notes

¹	Acquired from Telefónica.
²	Acquired from WarnerMedia Latin America.

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Paramount Networks UK & Australia

Part of Paramount

Nickelodeon:
UK & Ireland (Nicktoons | Nick Jr. | Nick Jr. Too)
Australia & New Zealand (Nick Jr. | NickMusic)

Comedy Central:
UK & Ireland (Extra)² | Australia & New Zealand

Other channels:
UK & Ireland: True Crime (Xtra)³ | Legend (Xtra)³ | Colors (Rishtey | Cineplex | Gujarati)⁶
Australia: CMT

Production companies:
Australia: Network 10 Productions | 10 Peach Productions | 10 Bold Productions

Digital assets:
Paramount+⁴
United Kingdom: My5 | 5Prizes | Watch Free UK | True Crime UK
Australia: 10 Play (Pluto TV) | 10 Speaks

Other assets:
United Kingdom: Milkshake! (preschool block on 5) | 5 News (news program)
Australia: 10 News First (news program) | 10 Sport (sport television) | 10 Intensify (advertising)

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10 News First

Part of Network 10

Television News Stations
Sydney | Queensland | Melbourne | Adelaide | Perth

Lunchtime | Afternoon | The Project | The Sunday Project | Late

Notes

¹	Under license from Direct Group, later moved to Seven Network.
²	Joint venture with Sky Group.
³	Joint venture with AMC Networks International.
⁴	Managed by Paramount Streaming.
⁵	Joint venture with Travlr.
⁶	Managed by Viacom18.

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Viacom18

Part of TV18 (Reliance Industries Limited) and Paramount

Indian television channels:

Hindi: Entertainment: Colors and Colors Rishtey | Movies: Colors Cineplex, Colors Cineplex Superhits and Colors Cineplex Bollywood | Kids: Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon Sonic | Youth entertainment: MTV | Music: MTV Beats

English: Entertainment: Colors Infinity and Comedy Central | Music: VH1 | Kids: Nickelodeon HD+ and Nick Jr.

Sports: Sports18 1 | Sports18 2 | Sports 18 3 | Sports18 Khel

Regional languages: Kannada: Colors Kannada, Colors Super and Colors Kannada Cinema | Bangla: Colors Bangla and Colors Bangla Cinema | Marathi: Colors Marathi | Tamil: Colors Tamil | Odia: Colors Odia | Gujarati: Colors Gujarati and Colors Gujarati Cinema

International channels:
United States: Aapka Colors

Upcoming channels:
Bhojpuri: Rishtey Bhojpuri | Rishtey Laheriya
Marathi: Colors Marathi Cinema

Other assets
Video-on-demand: JioCinema (Paramount+)
Film production: Viacom18 Motion Pictures
Television production: Viacom18 Studios
Digital content arm: Tipping Point Viacom18
Merchandise: Viacom18 Consumer Products
Live events: Viacom18 Integrated Network Solutions

Defunct/former:
Television: TeenNick (Nick Jr. block)
VOD services: Voot (Kids | Select)

Notes

¹	Joint venture with BeIN Media Group.
²	Co-owned with TV18.
³	Co-owned with NBCUniversal.
⁵	Co-owned with 20th Century Fox.
⁶	Co-owned with Nexstar Media Group (75%) and Warner Bros. Discovery (12.5%) .
⁷	Joint-venture with Weigel Broadcasting.
⁸	Co-owned with Seoul Broadcasting System.
⁹	Co-owned with Corus Entertainment.
¹⁰	Co-owned with 1+1 Media.
¹¹	Co-owned with RTL Group.
¹²	Joint venture with AMC Networks International.
¹³	Joint venture with BBC.
¹⁴	Joint venture with Marvel Comics.
¹⁵	Co-owned with Grupo Abril from 1990 to 2009.
¹⁶	Co-owned with Viva Entertainment.
¹⁷	Joint venture with Hubbard Broadcasting.
¹⁸	Co-owned with Solar Entertainment.
¹⁹	51% owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting.
²⁰	Co-owned with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
²¹	Joint venture with RTL Group.
²²	Co-owned with ABC.
²³	Joint venture with Comcast.
²⁴	Co-owned with Viaplay Group.
²⁵	Co-owned with CH Media.
²⁶	Co-owned with Vodafone & UPC.

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DreamWorks Animation

Part of NBCUniversal (Comcast)

Traditionally-animated films:
The Prince of Egypt | The Road to El Dorado | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Aardman Animations:
Chicken Run | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Flushed Away

Direct-to-video/Streaming films:
Joseph: King of Dreams | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans | Orion and the Dark | Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate

Cancelled films:
Me and My Shadow | B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations | Larrikins

Upcoming shows:
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory | Bearbrick | The Gumazing Gum Girl! | Mighty MonsterWheelies

Television networks
DreamWorks Channel³

¹Co-owned with Reach High Media Group.
²Co-owned with Hearst Corporation and Verizon Communications. Now owned by Paramount.
³Co-owned with NBCUniversal International Networks.
⁴Co-owned with Peacock
⁵Joint venture with Ion Media, NBCUniversal, Corus Entertainment, and Scholastic Corporation.
⁶Sold its stake to Ion Media.
⁷Libraries from NBCUniversal (excluding Popeye and Superman, copyrighted by Warner Bros. Discovery), owned by Paramount.

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Hearst Communications

Newspapers:

Hearst Magazines Digital Media: ELLEgirl.com | eCRUSH | eSPIN | Shondaland.com

Programming: Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

Predecessor companies:
Argyle Television Holdings II | Pulitzer Broadcasting

See also:
List of Hearst-owned stations

Radio:
WBAL | WIYY

Entertainment and syndication:

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A+E Networks

Co-owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company

NOTE: Except for European markets which fully owned by Hearst (and its respective partners) since 2019.

Canada:
Lifetime | History | Historia | History 2

Latin America²:
A&E | History | History 2 | Lifetime³

United Kingdom & Ireland:⁴
Blaze | Crime & Investigation | Sky History | Sky History2

Italy:
Blaze | Sky Crime⁴ | History

Romania:
History | Crime & Investigation

Hungary:
History | Crime & Investigation

India:⁵
History TV18

Asia
Lifetime | History | Crime + Investigation

Others:
A&E Studios | A&E IndieFilms | Lifetime Films | History Films

Notes

¹	Joint venture with Vice Media.
²	Joint venture with Ole Communications.
³	Joint venture with Sony Pictures Television.
⁴	Joint venture with Sky Group.
⁵	Joint venture with TV18.
⁶	Joint venture with Foxtel Group.

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ESPN

Owners: The Walt Disney Company (80%) | Hearst Communications (20%)

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ESPN on ABC

Current programming:

U.S. radio stations
ESPN Radio | ESPN Xtra | ESPNU Radio | ESPN All Access

International:
Australia (ESPN2) | Brazil (2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6) | Caribbean | Latin America (2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Extra (Argentina | Ecuador) | Premium (Argentina | Chile)) | Africa (ESPN 2) | Netherlands (2 | 3 | 4 | Ultra HD)

Canadian networks (Co-owned with Bell Media):
The Sports Network (TSN1 | TSN2 | TSN3 | TSN4 | TSN5 | TSN 4K) | RDS | RDS2 | RDS Info

Japanese networks (J Sports)
J Sports 1 | J Sports 2 | J Sports 3 | J Sports 4

Notes

¹	Operated by BT under license.
²	Also airs on MLB Network.
³	Partnership with TV5 Network Inc. Now known as One Sports.
⁴	Partnership with Sony Pictures Networks India.
⁵	Joint-venture with University of Texas at Austin and Learfield.

Interactive media:
Kaboodle

Business Media:
First DataBank | Fitch Group (BMI Research) | Motor

Real estate:
Hearst Ranch | Hearst Service Center | Hearst Tower

Notes

¹	Joint venture with The Walt Disney Company, which owns 80% of ESPN and 50% of A+E Networks.
²	Co-owned with Verizon Communications.
³	Co-owned with NBCUniversal (Comcast).
⁴	Joint-venture with Miramax.
⁵	Joint-venture with Sanoma. Merged into Burda România in 2013.
⁶	Owned by Montclair Communications and operated by Hearst under a LMA.

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Verizon Communications

Telecommunication assets

Fios | Wireless

Notes

¹	Co-owned with Hearst Communications
²	Apollo Global Management holds the 90% stake.

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