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Paramount Television traces its origins to 1949 when [[Paramount Pictures]] owned a television network called "Paramount Television Network". The network presented and produced 17 programs in total until it and the production banner was dissolved in 1956. Paramount also had a majority stake in the DuMont Television Network and owned KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB in Chicago (now WBBM-TV). Paramount Pictures' second attempt in the television industry began in 1959 as "Paramount Pictures Television" when they produced the television movie Destination Space for CBS. They also co-produced six unsold pilots with [[Tandem Productions]], such as ''Henry T.'' and ''Meet Me At Danny's''. They also had a short-lived production banner called "[[Telemount-Mutual Productions|Telemount-Mutual]]". When Gulf+Western Industries, parent company of Paramount Pictures at the time, purchased [[Desilu Productions]] in 1967, Desilu became the television division of Paramount Pictures and later became "Paramount Television" in late 1967; officially forming the studio, and Desilu sales became "Paramount Television Sales". In 2004, [[Viacom (pre-2006)|Viacom]] merged Paramount Network Television and [[CBS Productions]] to form the "CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group" at the same time it merged Paramount International Television and [[CBS Broadcast International]] to form "CBS Paramount International Television" (currently known as "[[CBS Studios International]]"). On December 31, 2005, the Viacom/CBS split took effect and Viacom changed its name to the CBS Corporation at the same time it created a spin-off company that bears the Viacom name. On January 17, 2006, CBS Corporation merged the CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group, CBS Paramount International Television, and Paramount Domestic Television into the [[CBS Paramount Television]] Group, but the on-air logo for PDT remained the same until Memorial Day 2006, when the first CBS Paramount Television logo debuted. As for the network version, the PNT and CBS Productions logos were used before the CBS Paramount Network Television logo debuted on June 11. However, it was renamed as "[[CBS Studios|CBS Television Studios]]" (now "CBS Studios") in May 2009 after CBS lost to license to the Paramount name it had for three years. On March 4, 2013, Paramount Pictures relaunched a current incarnation of [[Paramount Television Studios|Paramount Television]]; both divisions are owned by [[ViacomCBS]].