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Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. Company type: Division: Industry: Television production Broadcast syndication: Predecessors: Screen Gems (1947–1974) Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001) TriStar Television (1986–1988, 1991–1999) Founded: February 21, 1994; 30 years ago () Defunct: September 16, 2002; 21 years ago () Fate
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After a purchase by Sony Pictures Entertainment, both...
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Screen Gems
Screen Gems was a television production company that was owned by Columbia Pictures from 1948 to May 6, 1974, best known for shows like Bewitched, The Partridge Family and I Dream of Jeannie. It was one of the largest television producers in history, and it was around that time, one of the few TV subsidiaries of a major movie studio that didn't carry the film studio's name. It was highly profitable until 1974, when it was changed its name to Columbia Pictures Television.
Re-incorporation as CPT and early years
The studio changed its name from Screen Gems to Columbia Pictures Television on May 6, 1974, and was suggested by David Gerber, who was producer on such CPT/Screen Gems shows, and now executive vice president of the studio, displacing Art Frankel when he was at Screen Gems. He announced plans to launch a separate unit to concentrate on movie-of-the-week titles. John H. Mitchell, who was president of the studio since 1958 when the studio was Screen Gems, said that they would take the division...
The Coca-Cola Years
The 1980s brought significant changes to CPT. On June 22, 1982, beverage company The Coca-Cola Company bought Columbia Pictures for $750 million. In 1983, Coca-Cola formed CPT Holdings and demerged CPT from Columbia Pictures Industries in 1984 and transferred CPT to CPT Holdings. In 1983, actress Suzanne Somers through Hamel/Somers Productions had signed a deal with the studio. Also that same year that producer Roy Huggins struck a deal with the studio. Also that year, Columbia Pictures Telev...
Bibliography
1. Perry, Jeb H. (1991). Screen Gems: A History of Columbia Pictures Television from Cohn to Coke, 1948-1983. ISBN 0-8108-2487-6.
Columbia TriStar Television was a merger of Columbia Pictures Television and TriStar Television (after the re-branding of Columbia TriStar Home Video ). It was founded on February 21, 1994 and the same day, SPE renamed Columbia Pictures Television Distribution to Columbia TriStar Television Distribution.
produced by Merv Griffin Enterprises (1975-1994), Columbia TriStar Television (1994-2002), Sony Pictures Television (2002-2020, 2023-present), and Sony Pictures Television Studios (2023-present) co-production with Califon Productions, Inc. Distributed in the U.S. by CBS Media Ventures: Medical Story: 1975–1976: NBC
Pioneer was bought by Columbia and renamed Screen Gems in November 1948, reincorporated as Columbia Pictures Television on May 6, 1974, and merged with sister studio TriStar Television (formed in 1986 and relaunched in 1991) to form Columbia TriStar Television on February 21, 1994.
