Kings Entertainment Company (original) (raw)
Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world. The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in 1984 was purchased for $167.5 million by senior executives and general managers of Taft's Amusement Park Group. In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, and later acquired by Viacom), then the parent of Paramount Pictures, which changed the name of the parks by adding "Paramount's" in front of their names. The park in Australia was not purchased by Paramount and was sold to a local company.
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| dbo:abstract | Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world. The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in 1984 was purchased for $167.5 million by senior executives and general managers of Taft's Amusement Park Group. In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, and later acquired by Viacom), then the parent of Paramount Pictures, which changed the name of the parks by adding "Paramount's" in front of their names. The park in Australia was not purchased by Paramount and was sold to a local company. The company was renamed Paramount Parks in 1994, around the time of the Viacom purchase, and remained in existence until 2006. As part of the 2005 Viacom split, ownership of Paramount Parks was transferred to the CBS Corporation. CBS, in turn, sold the parks to amusement park management company Cedar Fair Entertainment Company based in Sandusky, Ohio on June 30, 2006 (CBS decided that the parks would not fit a new corporate strategy that they were implementing). As of January 2007, Cedar Fair has begun dropping the Paramount name from the individual parks and restoring their original KECO names with new Cedar Fair logos. This transaction also returned the parks to Ohio-based ownership, as Taft was once headquartered in Cincinnati (meanwhile, Gulf+Western was once headquartered in Ohio's neighboring state, Michigan). (en) Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) possédait et dirigeait six parcs à thèmes dans le monde. La société fut à l'origine la propriété de puis dans le milieu des années 1980 elle est rachetée par quelques hauts dirigeants de chez Taft. En 1992, la société est vendue à Paramount Communications, anciennement Gulf+Western puis est acquise plus tard par Viacom alors apparenté à Paramount Pictures. La société est renommée Paramount Parks en 1994, à l'époque du rachat de Viacom, et garde ce nom jusqu'en 2006, quand Kings Island et quatre autres parcs de la société sont achetés par Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. (fr) |
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| rdfs:comment | Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world. The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in 1984 was purchased for $167.5 million by senior executives and general managers of Taft's Amusement Park Group. In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western, and later acquired by Viacom), then the parent of Paramount Pictures, which changed the name of the parks by adding "Paramount's" in front of their names. The park in Australia was not purchased by Paramount and was sold to a local company. (en) Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) possédait et dirigeait six parcs à thèmes dans le monde. La société fut à l'origine la propriété de puis dans le milieu des années 1980 elle est rachetée par quelques hauts dirigeants de chez Taft. En 1992, la société est vendue à Paramount Communications, anciennement Gulf+Western puis est acquise plus tard par Viacom alors apparenté à Paramount Pictures. (fr) |
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