KECO Entertainment

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 executives of Taft's.

In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications (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 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 the Sandusky, Ohio-based amusement park management company Cedar Fair Entertainment Company on June 30, 2006. As of January 2007, Cedar Fair has begun dropping the Paramount name from the individual parks and restoring their original KECO names with new Cedar Fair logos.

The Company owned:
*Canada's Wonderland, Toronto,Ontario, Canada (Sold to Paramount, now owned by Cedar Fair)
*Great America, Santa Clara, California (Sold to Paramount, now owned by Cedar Fair)
*Kings Island, Mason, Ohio (Sold to Paramount, now owned by Cedar Fair)
*Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina (Sold to Paramount, now owned by Cedar Fair)
*Kings Dominion, Doswell, Virginia (Sold to Paramount, now owned by Cedar Fair)
*Australia's Wonderland, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Sold to Sunway Group, now defunct)