Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
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| Division | |
| Industry |
Television production Television syndication |
| Predecessor |
Screen Gems (1948–1974) Columbia Pictures Television (1974–2001) TriStar Television (1986–1988, 1991–1999) Columbia TriStar Television (1994–2002) |
| Founded | September 16, 2002 |
| Headquarters | Culver City, California, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jeff Frost (President) Chris Parnell (Co-president) Jason Clodfelter (Co-president) |
| Owner | Sony |
| Parent | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Divisions |
Adelaide Productions CPT Holdings Electric Ray Fable Pictures Huaso Stellify Media TriStar Productions TriStar Television |
| Subsidiaries |
2waytraffic Blueprint Pictures Califon Productions CSC Media Group Embassy Row Floresta Jeopardy Productions Lean-M Left Bank Pictures Palladium Fiction Playmaker Media Starling Teleset Funimation (Sale pending) |
| Website | SPT Website |
Sony Pictures Television, Inc. (abbreviated as SPT, formerly known as Columbia TriStar Television) is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment and a unit of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
In addition to the Sony Pictures Entertainment film library, SPT owns and distributes shows from Tandem Productions, ELP Communications, TeleVentures, Merv Griffin Enterprises, Four D Productions, Barris Industries, Barry & Enright Productions, Stewart Television, and 2waytraffic. It is a joint owner of Game Show Network with the AT&T Entertainment Group, owns the Crackle digital service, and jointly owns the rights to most of the post-1947 Bob Hope film library with FremantleMedia North America.
SPT owns production or distribution rights in many comedies and dramas spanning over six decades, including titles like I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Gidget, The Monkees, the 1959 Dennis the Menace series, Who's the Boss?, Married... with Children, Designing Women,Castle Rock Entertainment's Seinfeld, The King of Queens in the United States while CBS handles overseas rights, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, the two longest-running and highest-rated game shows in syndication while CBS Television Distribution distributes the two; two daytime talk shows, The Dr. Oz Show and The Queen Latifah Show; the reality shows Shark Tank and The Sing-Off; and two long-running soap operas, NBC's Days of Our Lives and CBS's The Young and the Restless.
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