Viacom

Viacom was an American mass media conglomerate that merged with CBS Corporation in December 2019 to form ViacomCBS (later rebranded as Paramount Global). The combined entity, which included brands such as CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, and Paramount+, was subsequently acquired by Skydance Media and ceased to exist as an independent public company in August 2025. Viacom maintained open source software through its GitHub organization (ViacomInc), including tools for Roku channel development, tvOS UI components, and broadcast calendar utilities. No public external developer API program was offered.

Viacom is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Media, Entertainment, Streaming, Broadcasting, and Television.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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MediaEntertainmentStreamingBroadcastingTelevisionFortune 500

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Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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apis: []
name: Viacom
tags:
- Media
- Entertainment
- Streaming
- Broadcasting
- Television
- Fortune 500
type: Index
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-03'
position: Consuming
description: Viacom was an American mass media conglomerate that merged with CBS Corporation in December 2019 to form ViacomCBS
  (later rebranded as Paramount Global). The combined entity, which included brands such as CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy
  Central, BET, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, and Paramount+, was subsequently acquired by Skydance Media and ceased to exist
  as an independent public company in August 2025. Viacom maintained open source software through its GitHub organization
  (ViacomInc), including tools for Roku channel development, tvOS UI components, and broadcast calendar utilities. No public
  external developer API program was offered.
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- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/viacom
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc
  name: Viacom Open Source Software on GitHub
  type: OpenSourceOrg
  description: GitHub organization for Viacom open source projects including media tools.
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/data-point
  name: data-point on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: JavaScript utility for collecting, processing and transforming data (69 stars).
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/roku_builder
  name: roku_builder on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Ruby Gem used to assist in the development of Roku Channels (45 stars).
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/TVOSPicker
  name: TVOSPicker on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Swift package providing a picker view component for tvOS (40 stars).
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/Router
  name: Router on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Swift routing library (41 stars).
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/broadcast-calendar
  name: broadcast-calendar on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: TypeScript library for broadcast calendar date functions (7 stars).
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/openap-inventory-manager
  name: openap-inventory-manager on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Open AP inventory management tool built with TypeScript.
- url: https://github.com/ViacomInc/ViaSwiftUtils
  name: ViaSwiftUtils on GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
  description: Utilities for building applications in Swift (23 stars).
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViacomCBS
  name: Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS) on Wikipedia
  type: Reference
  description: History and overview of Viacom's merger into ViacomCBS and then Paramount Global.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'

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Source (apis.yml)