Paramount Networks UK & Australia

Paramount Networks UK & Australia, formerly ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia, is a division of Paramount Skydance Corporation launched on 14 January 2020. It is based in London, England, with a local office in Sydney, Australia.[1]

History

On 31 October 2022, Paramount Networks UK & Australia acquired the remaining stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd. including its Nickelodeon-branded channels from its partner Sky, bringing the British Nickelodeon channel under Paramount Networks UK & Australia's control as Sky was planning to launch its in-house children's channel Sky Kids as owning Nickelodeon UK would have restricted Sky from launching it.[2]

On 22 June 2023, Paramount Networks UK & Australia announced its rebranding of its Australian free-to-air television channel 10 Shake under the Nickelodeon brand as the unit had brought the Nickelodeon name in-house and added Nickelodeon content on free-to-air linear television for the first time with them ending its long-standing partnership with Foxtel for the pay-TV channel of the same name as it chose to shutter the pay-TV channel alongside Nick Jr., however the pay-TV channel continued operating on Fetch TV and Sky in New Zealand while the rebranded free-to-air channel would bring all of Nickelodeon's programming under the FTA channel.[3][4]

In October 2025 when Paramount Networks UK & Australia's parent Paramount Global merged with David Ellison's media entertainment Skydance Media into forming Paramount Skydance two months prior in August of that year, Paramount Networks UK & Australia announced that it would close five of its MTV-branded UK music pay-TV channels which consists of MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live at the end of December 2025 due to the company's restructuring policy.[5]

Units

See also

• Pluto TV
• Nickelodeon
• Noggin

External links

• (Australia)
• (UK)