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.
3-457: 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
6-673: 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 . On July 1, 2024, Cedar Fair merged with competitor Six Flags, forming the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation . The company owned: Gulf%2BWestern#Paramount Communications Inc. Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-688: 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). Beginning in January 2007, Cedar Fair began dropping
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