What became of Desilu Productions?
In 1962, Arnaz resigned as president and sold his holdings to Ball, who succeeded him as president. This made her the first woman to head a major studio, and one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time.later founded Desilu Sales,Inc (now part of CBS Television Distribution) For a number of years, Ball served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Desilu, while at the same time starring in her own weekly series. Eventually tiring of the stress, in 1967, Ball sold the company to Gulf+Western, which merged it with its other production company, (and Desilu’s next-door neighbor), Paramount Pictures and renamed it Paramount Television, (now called CBS Paramount Television), around December 1967. As a result, Star Trek was no longer a Desilu production but a Paramount production. Desilu/Paramount TV’s holdings are currently owned by CBS Corporation, incidentally the eventual owner of the pre-1960s shows. Desilu Productions Inc. was reincorporated in Delaware in 1967, and stil
