Paramount Television International Studios (formerly The Independent Studios, Estudios TeleMéxico, Fox TeleColombia and TeleColombia and commonly referred to as TIS/PTIS) is a Colombian company dedicated to the production of television and programming on the channels of Inravisión owned by Paramount Global under its Paramount Networks Americas division, born in 1996 under the name of Bernardo Romero Pereiro Productions, in honor of its founder, renowned librettist of Colombian dramatizations and soap operas. Fox Telecolombia logo

In 2007, News Corporation's Fox International Channels bought a 51% share in the company, thus subsequently giving ownership to The Walt Disney Company Latin America after The Walt Disney Company acquired

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on March 20, 2019. With sister station with

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. In 2009 Fox produced ''

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'', the first American TV series produced in Latin America for international markets. The series was filmed at the Fox Telecolombia complex in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

. As of January 18, 2021, The Walt Disney Company changed the company's name to TeleColombia as part of Disney phasing out the "Fox" brand to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation. On October 28, 2021, ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) announced that it is acquiring a majority stake in TeleColombia S.A. from Disney, with the acquisition closed on November 23 of that year, making it a sister station to Nickelodeon. On October 22, 2022, Paramount Global changed the company's name to TIS along with Estudios TeleMexico being absorbed with the rebrand.

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* Television production companies of Colombia Former News Corporation subsidiaries {{ViacomCBS Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company Paramount Global subsidiaries Paramount International Networks 2021 mergers and acquisitions Entertainment companies of Colombia