In 1992, Aaron
Spelling's
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 acquired the rest of the Spelling Entertainment Group, making it a division of the
Paramount Television Group, but Spelling continued producing shows until his death on June 23, 2006, at the age of 83. 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 Network Television" and "CBS Television Studios").
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