the networks that were a part of warner-amex are owned by numerous parties. the pay-per-view unit remained under the ownership of warner cable, which became time warner cable after the merger of their parent company warner communications and publisher time, inc. (time warner cable was spun off as a separate company before charter communications acquired it in may 2016) and has undergone numerous transformations before its current incarnations as in demand and the differing video on demand on-demand service. mtv and nickelodeon (and later video hits one or vh1 for short, which launched shortly before the sale) became the core units of viacomcbs's viacom media networks. over the decades, it has expanded into separate units, including: