Will CBS and Viacom EVER reunite??!!

Why did CBS and Viacom split? The company was not only dealing with a stagnating stock price, but also the internal rivalry between Les Moonves and Tom Freston, longtime heads of CBS and MTV Networks respectively. After the departure of Mel Karmazin in 2004, Redstone, who served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, decided to split the offices of President and Chief Operating Officer between Moonves and Freston. Redstone was set to retire in the near future, and a split would be a creative solution to the matter of replacing him. THAT is why the old Viacom was split into CBS Corporation and the NEW Viacom. They're still both owned by National Amusements, just owning different brands. The rivalry between Moonves and Freston was also the main reason why the new Viacom didn't own the rights to the old Paramount Television library, which was then folded into CBS Television Studios. Paramount Television wasn't revived by the new Viacom until 2013, when it was announced that Paramount Pictures will make TV shows based on their movies. This is also why UPN (now owned by CBS) merged with the WB to form the CW. It actually was shocking for Viacom to own both CBS AND UPN. This also was why Nickelodeon shows no longer air on Saturday mornings on CBS.
Viacom may be a spin-off of CBS Corporation (which was the legal name for the original Viacom), but still owned the Paramount and MTV Networks. This could explain why Nickelodeon rejected the Modifyers for Back at the Barnyard, other than the fact that the Modifyers had a female protagonist.
But years later, it confirmed that the Simpsons predicted the future, where the Walt Disney Company is owning the rights to 20th Century Fox, which is the reason why someone’s here to say...........
If the Walt Disney Company buys 21st Century Fox, then Viacom and CBS Corporation will have to RE-MERGE again!!!! I’m not joking. Now, I know they still can't because of the rivalry between Moonves and Freston, but I would imagine that, if THEY heard about this, then they're gonna have to apologize to and forgive each other, and make up for all the rivalry they have done over the years, and merge both CBS and Viacom back into ONE company, giving Paramount Pictures back the full rights to Terrytoons.
Not only that, but this would also mean that CBS Television Studios would shut down, and be folded into the NEW Paramount Television, which would make Paramount Television take full control of ALL the channels from both CBS and Viacom. This may not mean a full revival of UPN, but if CBS and Viacom re-merge, then that would mean the CW will forever shut down, and have its UPN library move to Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV), and re-launch the WB network. That's right. Disney buying Fox made me think that there MIGHT be a possibility, where Viacom and CBS will stop being enemies with each other. Which makes me beg the question: What made Moonves and Freston rival each other?!
National Amusements should finally re-merge CBS with the new Viacom, and have CBS finally return to the Paramount Pictures family. There may be a chance where the two companies would have a new name, known as "CBSParamount", and they may or may not rebrand Viacom's name as an acquisition company in the veins of Turner Entertainment. If that happens, Paramount may own back the rights to Terrytoons, and maybe even the Puppetoon library, the Raggedy Ann franchise, and I guess Paramount might soon own the entirety of Premavision, giving Paramount Pictures the entirety of Gumby. But those are what I dream of happening once CBS and Viacom re-merge. However, the re-merging CBS/Viacom company does have plans to compete with Amazon and Verizon to buy Lionsgate.
To be honest, I'm just not sure why CBS/Viacom would buy Lionsgate; there better be a good reason. And if I'm gonna be honest, Verizon shouldn't compete with Viacom/CBS, since they're a competitor to AT&T and maybe even Comcast. If CBS/Viacom buys Lionsgate, and Verizon still wants to buy Lionsgate, they're gonna have to buy National Amusements, and transfer the re-merged CBS/Viacom company (who's name should be "CBSParamount") from National Amusements to Verizon in its entirety. However, buying Lionsgate would give Paramount Pictures the US Distribution rights to Lionsgate's Aardman movies, such as Shaun the Sheep Movie and Early Man. If CBS and Viacom re-merged, then Mighty Mouse from Terrytoons will finally be the official mascot of Paramount. Verizon would soon be in bigger competition with Comcast, AT&T (after buying TimeWarner), and the Walt Disney Company, and might soon help make the re-merged CBS/Viacom company be one of the biggest animation giants in the entertainment industry. Pretty soon, Verizon (via CBSParamount would buy their own share of Hulu, to share with Disney, Comcast, and AT&T.
However, and I know this is true, just because CBS and Viacom would re-merge, does NOT mean there would be a revival for UPN, especially since Viacom already has a network with the Paramount name in the form of "Paramount Network", the channel that Spike TV was recently renamed to. BUT that DOES mean that CBS, again, would finally be distributed by Paramount Pictures, meaning that the newly formed Paramount Television would be the new successor to CBS Television Studios, and they might change CBS Television Distribution back into CBSParamount Domestic Television. BUT that might mean that after the CBS/Viacom re-merger, the CW (a joint venture between CBS and TimeWarner) would have to shut down, and be turned back into the WB Television Network as a commercial broadcast network owned 100% by AT&T through TimeWarner. Now, I know the WB was shut down in 2006, due to audience declining, but they still should have had better programming at the time. And hopefully, AT&T would make the WB better, by having it act more like NBC, CBS, AND ABC.
We are still gonna miss watching UPN, but personally, I think CBS is good enough of a commercial broadcast network for Paramount Pictures. But that does not mean we may have a block of nothing but Nickelodeon shows return to CBS. There might be a chance that CBS would air syndicated airings of Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head, but only on late nights, or have a block of classic MTV and Comedy Central shows on late nights, calling it "MTV on CBS".
I would love to see the WB return to TV as a channel owned 100% by AT&T through TimeWarner. The WB would soon eventually air syndicated airings of [adult swim] shows like Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I know the WB was revived as a web channel in 2008, and so was Kids' WB!, but they didn't last so long. I would love to have the WB return as their own separate channels. After the CBS/Viacom/Lionsgate merger and the AT&T/TimeWarner merger, once again this is what I wanna see: Goodbye CW network, and welcome back WB network. I would also love for Verizon to buy Dish Network, competing with AT&T’s DirecTV and Comcast’s Xfinity, and the re-merged CBS/Viacom company to buy Cedar Fair, and rename it to Paramount Parks as it’s revival. CBS and Viacom should re-merge and forget about their rivalry after Disney buys Fox.
That's all I have to say. Do you think it's great that CBS and Viacom are finally re-merging?
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