CBS Broadcasting Inc.
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TVNewsCheck - 'Chiller Drive-In' Goes National On Retro TV
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 14 hours 31 minutes ago
Michigan-based Chiller Drive-In will now air nationwide on RTV, the Retro Television Network, beginning Saturday, Nov. 28.
TVNewsCheck - Syndies Mixed In First Full Sweeps Week
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 12 hours 39 minutes ago
News coverage of the Fort Hood massacre and election day, as well as the final two games of the Yankees-Phillies World Series provided unusually strong competition for syndication in the week ending Nov. 8.
TVNewsCheck - NABEF Calls For Service To America Entries
TVNewsCheck | 5 days 11 hours 13 minutes ago
The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) announced today that entries are being sought for the Celebration of Service to America Awards, an event that recognizes outstanding community service by local broadcasters.
Sinclair Announces Completion and Results of Tender Offers [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 17 days 9 hours ago
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TVNewsCheck - 2010 Retrans Rallying Cry: 'A Buck A Sub'
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 10 hours ago
Fox is engaged in some serious retrans negotiations with Time Warner, the second largest cable operator in the land, and the word is that it is aiming for a buck a sub per month.
TVNewsCheck - TNT Lands Syndication Rights to The Mentalist
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 16 hours 7 minutes ago
TNT has acquired exclusive syndication rights to The Mentalist from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, beginning in 2012. Currently in its second season on CBS, The Mentalist was the No. 1 new program of the 2008-09 television season among total viewers and households and won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Drama.
TVNewsCheck - TV's Full Potential Requires Spectrum
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 17 hours ago
Editor: I read with interest both your editorial ("Et Tu, Consumer Electronics Industry?" Oct. 30) and Gary Shapiro's letter to the editor in response ("CEA Not Advocating a Spectrum Grab," Nov. 2).
TVNewsCheck - Cold Weather Heats Up Syndie Numbers
TVNewsCheck | 27 days 14 hours 18 minutes ago
Talk shows were hot in the week ending Oct .18 as PUT levels jumped with cooler weather stretching across much of the country. Courtrooms, magazines and games also heated up.
TVNewsCheck - Telco Productions Slates Three New Green Shows
TVNewsCheck | 21 days 10 hours 24 minutes ago
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Telco Productions Inc. has signed up more than 100 stations for It's A Green Christmas, a one-hour holiday special featuring green holiday products and stories. The program includes several Hollywood celebrities including two-time Emmy-winning actor Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle, Breaking Bad), and energy expert T. Boone Pickens.
TVNewsCheck - Broadcasters Meet With FCC On Spectrum
TVNewsCheck | 20 days 13 hours 44 minutes ago
Broadcasters have begun making their opposition to the FCC's cash-for-spectrum plan known in visits with FCC officials.
TVNewsCheck - 'Sunny' Syndie Clearances Hit 45%
TVNewsCheck | 20 days 10 hours 32 minutes ago
Twentieth Television today announced that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, recently entering the broadcast syndication marketplace, has increased its roster to 23 markets, representing 45% of the country.
TVNewsCheck - PAM Boosts Effeciency And Bottom Line
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 17 hours ago
Today's broadcasters and media companies must keep pace with an ever-increasing need to create content in the field, the newsroom or the studio and publish immediately to all audiences.
Broadcasters Seek Cable-TV Fees
Wall Street Journal, The | 27 days 6 hours 13 minutes ago
Television-network owners News Corp. and CBS Corp. are pushing cable operators to pay monthly fees to carry their broadcast TV stations.
TVNewsCheck - Debbi Thompson Steps Up At WSAV
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 8 hours 52 minutes ago
Debbi Thompson has been named vice president and general manager of WSAV, Media General's NBC affiliate in Savannah, Ga., it was announced today.
TVNewsCheck - WNEP Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Adding Retro TV
TVNewsCheck | 17 days 14 hours 35 minutes ago
Local TV's ABC affiliate WNEP Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa. (DMA 54) will be adding The A Team, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Magnum P.I. to its lineup. Those are just a few of the shows that will premier on the station's digital subchannel WNEP2 starting Monday, Nov. 9, when it becomes a Retro Television Network affiliate.
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Company Overview
| Company: | CBS Broadcasting Inc. |
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| Industry: | Television Cable, Pay & Broadcast Networks |
| Website: | http://www.cbs.com |
The forensic evidence shows this company is tops in the TV ratings. A unit of CBS Corporation, CBS Broadcasting operates the CBS Television Network, the #1 watched broadcast network in the US. Its top shows include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its two spin-offs, as well as NCIS and a host of prime time comedy shows. The network boasts more than 200 affiliate stations around the nation. CBS Broadcasting also oversees 50%-owned The CW Network (a joint venture with Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment) and production and distribution operations including CBS Television Distribution Group. In addition, CBS owns and operates about 30 TV stations across the country.
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| Fiscal Year-End | December |