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Comedy Partners
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Comedy Central.
1989–1991: The Comedy Channel and Ha!
Comedy Partners was originally a partnership of Home Box Office, Inc., the subsidiary of Time Warner that owned The Comedy Channel and HBO's half and Viacom Hearty Ha! Ha! LLC, the subsidiary that owned Ha! and Viacom's half of the network during its first years on air. Viacom bought out AOL Time Warner's half in April 2003 for $1.23 billion. Despite HBO's exit from the venture, the Paramount Media Networks division in charge of Comedy Central is still called Comedy Partners, currently being a partnership between Viacom International, copyright holder of the company's assets and Viacom Hearty Ha! Ha! LLC, the subsidiary that owned Ha! and Viacom's original half of the network.