Spelling Television: Difference between revisions

In 1992, Aaron '''Spelling'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Spelling Entertainment Inc.|Spelling Entertainment]] was again renamed to '''Spelling Television'''. In 1993, Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation acquired a 67% stake in Spelling Entertainment Group and established "[[Big Ticket Television]]" (a.k.a. "Big Ticket Entertainment" and "Big Ticket Pictures") in 1994. In 1994, Blockbuster merged with Viacom, Inc. (later renamed "CBS Corporation" in 2006, and later "ViacomCBS" in 2019 and "Paramount Global" in 2022). In 1999, [[Viacom Productions|Viacom]] acquired the rest of the Spelling Entertainment Group, making it a division of the [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]] Group, but Spelling continued producing shows until his death on June 23, 2006, at the age of 83; by that point, ''7th Heaven'' was the last show Spelling produced that remained on the air. On April 4, 2007, it was announced that ''7th Heaven''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s series finale, broadcast on May 13, would be dedicated to Aaron Spelling; all episodes of the show's 11th and final season featured the text "In Memory of Aaron Spelling." at the beginning of the closing credits. Today, most of the Spelling Television library is owned by Paramount Global through [[CBS Media Ventures]], while the company still survives as an in-name-only unit of [[CBS Studios]] (formerly "[[CBS Paramount Television|CBS Paramount Network Television]]" and "CBS Television Studios").