# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000813828
**File Stem:** 0000813828-25-000019
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 8988
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000813828-25-000019.hdr.sgml**: 20250708

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000813828-25-000019

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250702

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250708

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250708

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Paramount Global
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000813828
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATIONS [4833]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 042949533
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-09553
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251111126

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1515 BROADWAY
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10036
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 212-258-6000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1515 BROADWAY
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10036

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** ViacomCBS Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20191204

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** CBS CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20060109

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VIACOM INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K** 

**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of**

**the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): **July 2, 2025** 

**Paramount Global** 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware** | **001-09553** | **04-2949533** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of<br>incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification<br>Number) |

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| **1515 Broadway** | **1515 Broadway** | |
| **New York,** | **New York** | **10036** |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |

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Registrant's telephone number, including area code: **(212) 258-6000** 

**Not Applicable**

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

**Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:**

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbols** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Class A Common Stock, $0.001 par value | PARAA | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
| Class B Common Stock, $0.001 par value | PARA | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

    

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| **Item 5.07** | **Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.** |

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The final results of voting on each of the items presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") of Paramount Global (the "Company"), as certified by the Company's independent inspector of election, are set forth below. Each of the directors nominated pursuant to Item 1, as well as Item 2 and Item 3, received the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the aggregate voting power of the Paramount Class A Common Stock present (whether in person or by proxy) and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, and was therefore approved pursuant to the Company's bylaws. Item 4 did not receive the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the aggregate voting power of the Paramount Class A Common Stock present (whether in person or by proxy) and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, and was therefore not approved pursuant to the Company's bylaws. A total of 37,924,121 shares of Class A Common Stock, representing approximately 93.17% of the Class A shares outstanding on the record date, were represented at the Annual Meeting.

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| **1.** | **Election of Directors:** |  |  |  |  |
|  |  | **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker<br>Non-Votes** |
|  | Mary Boies | 33311731 | 217240 | 4395150 |  |
|  | Barbara M. Byrne | 32836938 | 691872 | 4395311 |  |
|  | Linda M. Griego | 32580191 | 948758 | 4395172 |  |
|  | Charles E. Ryan | 33309807 | 218237 | 4396077 |  |
|  | Shari E. Redstone | 32696497 | 833844 | 4393780 |  |
|  | Susan Schuman | 32606440 | 922273 | 4395408 |  |
|  | Roanne Sragow Licht | 33380724 | 148128 | 4395269 |  |

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| **2.** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan, primarily to increase the number of shares of the Company's Class B Common Stock authorized for issuance under the plan:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan, primarily to increase the number of shares of the Company's Class B Common Stock authorized for issuance under the plan:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan, primarily to increase the number of shares of the Company's Class B Common Stock authorized for issuance under the plan:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan, primarily to increase the number of shares of the Company's Class B Common Stock authorized for issuance under the plan:** |
|  | **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
|  | 37746123 | 154266 | 23732 |  |

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| **3.** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's 2015 Equity Plan for Outside Directors, primarily to extend the plan's term:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's 2015 Equity Plan for Outside Directors, primarily to extend the plan's term:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's 2015 Equity Plan for Outside Directors, primarily to extend the plan's term:** | **The amendment and restatement of the Company's 2015 Equity Plan for Outside Directors, primarily to extend the plan's term:** |
| | **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| | 37,585,586 | 312,081 | 26,454 |  |

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| **4.** | **A stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting that the Company issue a report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting "viewpoint" and "ideology" from its equal employment opportunity policy:** | **A stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting that the Company issue a report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting "viewpoint" and "ideology" from its equal employment opportunity policy:** | **A stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting that the Company issue a report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting "viewpoint" and "ideology" from its equal employment opportunity policy:** | **A stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting that the Company issue a report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting "viewpoint" and "ideology" from its equal employment opportunity policy:** |
|  | **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
|  | 146436 | 33354201 | 4423484 |  |

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| PARAMOUNT GLOBAL | PARAMOUNT GLOBAL | PARAMOUNT GLOBAL |
| By: | /s/ Caryn K. Groce | /s/ Caryn K. Groce |
|  | Name: | Caryn K. Groce |
|  | Title: | Executive Vice President, |
|  |  | Acting General Counsel and Secretary |

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Date: July 8, 2025