KECO Entertainment
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Kings Entertainment Company (KECO) owned and/or operated six theme parks around the world. The company was originally owned by Taft Broadcasting and in the mid 1980s was purchased by a few top level excutives of Tafts. In 1992 the company was sold to Paramount (later acquired by Viacom), 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 is now called Paramount Parks and is owned by Cedar Fair, L.P. after being sold by CBS Corporation, who inherited the parks after the 2005 Viacom split, on June 30, 2006.
The Company owned:
- Canada's Wonderland, Toronto, Canada
- Great America, Santa Clara, California
- Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
- Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Kings Dominion, Doswell, Virginia
- Australia's Wonderland, Sydney, Australia
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