50 Facts About CBS Broadcasting

1. In 2006, CBS Broadcasting announced it would air only three of its NFL games per week in high definition.

2. CBS Broadcasting is shown outside North and Central America on a channel in its own right, it even began terrestrial coverage in the Philippines and the United Kingdom on October 1, 2006.

3. In 2001, CBS Broadcasting began a deal with Nickelodeon to air its original programming under the banner Nick on CBS.

4. CBS Broadcasting presently operates on an 87½-hour regular network programming schedule.

5. CBS Broadcasting is currently the most watched television network in the United States, with the prime draws being the CSI and Survivor franchises.

6. CBS Broadcasting can trace its origins to the creation, on January 21, 1927 in Chicago, of the "United Independent Broadcasters" network.

7. In 2000, CBS Broadcasting came under the control of Viacom, which coincidentally had begun as a spin-off of CBS in 1971.

8. In 1974, CBS Broadcasting dropped its full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995 and eventually adopted the name of the company it had bought to become CBS Corporation.

9. In 2008, CBS Broadcasting started the process of paring down its station holdings, with a particular focus on ridding itself of stations in mid-sized markets, and markets where there are no television stations for synergistic advantages.

10. CBS Broadcasting continues the struggle to turn around its ratings slump.

11. In 1946 CBS Broadcasting submitted its color-television broadcasting system to the Federal Communications Commission for approval.

12. CBS Broadcasting entered the record business in 1938 with the purchase of the American Record Corporation.

13. CBS Broadcasting boasted five of the top ten programs, including the number one 60 Minutes, which became the only show ever to rank first in three separate decades.

14. CBS Broadcasting entered the 1990s absent Paley, who died in 1990.

15. CBS Broadcasting went to court again in 1982 after it aired the documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.

16. In 1979 CBS Broadcasting finally began to divest itself of some of its diverse holdings, selling at least one business every year for the next few years.

17. In 1946 CBS Broadcasting submitted its color television broadcasting system to the Federal Communications Commission for approval.

18. CBS Broadcasting entered the recording business in 1938 with the purchase of the American Record Corporation.

19. CBS Broadcasting is committed to ensuring an environment where all voices are represented, engaged and empowered.

20. CBS Broadcasting has a strong legacy of success and a long-term plan for continued growth.

21. CBS Broadcasting owns the most-watched television network in the US and one of the world's largest libraries of entertainment content.

22. In 1968, though, CBS Broadcasting went to more of a merit system, which is still in use today.

23. CBS Broadcasting owns the most-watched television network in the US and one of the world's largest libraries of entertainment content, making its brand—"the Eye"—one of the most-recognized in business.

24. CBS Broadcasting is looking at achieving $100 million in operational savings by streamlining some operations and administrative functions at various divisions.

25. CBS Broadcasting has had good relations with the league ever since it reacquired football rights in 1998, after being outmaneuvered by Fox in 1993.

26. CBS Broadcasting will suspend its buyback program for the first half of 2019 to support content development.

27. CBS Broadcasting has no intention of letting its NFL rights deal lapse after its AFC-heavy package expires at the end of the 2022 season.

28. CBS Broadcasting would prefer to stick with its current AFC package, he said, because of the location of many of its affiliated stations and the results to date.

29. CBS Broadcasting programs are shown outside the United States, through various branded international networks and content agreements, and in two North American countries, through US-based CBS stations.

30. CBS Broadcasting provides video on demand access for delayed viewing of the network's programming through various means, including via its website at CBS.

31. CBS Broadcasting maintains a sizeable number of subchannel-only affiliations, the majority of which are with stations in cities located outside of the 50 largest Nielsen-designated markets; the largest CBS subchannel affiliate by market size is KOGG in Wailuku, Hawaii, which serves as a repeater of Honolulu affiliate KGMB.

32. CBS Broadcasting was the original broadcast home for the primetime specials produced by the National Geographic Society.

33. CBS Broadcasting was the original broadcast network home of the animated primetime holiday specials based on the Peanuts comic strip, beginning with A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965.

34. On February 24, 2009, it was announced that CBS Broadcasting renewed its contract with Cookie Jar for another three seasons, running through 2012.

35. In September 1998, CBS Broadcasting began contracting the time period out to other companies to provide programming and material for its Saturday morning schedule.

36. CBS Broadcasting has aired the most soap operas out of the Big Three networks, carrying 3½ hours of soaps on its daytime lineup from 1982 to 2009.

37. CBS Broadcasting made a brief, unsuccessful move into film production in the late 1960s, through the creation of Cinema Center Films.

38. CBS Broadcasting developed an early home video system called EVR, but was never able to launch it successfully.

39. CBS Broadcasting aired The Wizard of Oz twice in 1991, in March and again the night before Thanksgiving.

40. In 1949, CBS Broadcasting offered the first live television coverage of the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly.

41. CBS Broadcasting had become mired in debt as a result of a failed takeover effort by Ted Turner, which CBS chairman Thomas Wyman successfully helped to fend off.

42. CBS Broadcasting scored an early hit with his study "Memory for Advertising Copy Presented Visually vs Orally", which CBS salesmen used to great effect bringing in new sponsors.

43. CBS Broadcasting would buy the stars' names as a property, in exchange for a large lump sum and a salary.

44. CBS Broadcasting spent much of his time seeking social connections and in cultural pursuits; his "hope was that CBS could somehow learn to run itself".

45. CBS Broadcasting was indeed reporting on the survival of the English-speaking peoples.

46. CBS Broadcasting was mentored in microphone technique by Robert Trout, the lone full-time member of the News Division, and quickly found himself in a growing rivalry with boss White.

47. CBS Broadcasting believed in the power of radio advertising since his family's "La Palina" cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio.

48. In 2000, CBS Broadcasting came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971.

49. CBS Broadcasting is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the company's iconic symbol, in use since 1951.

50. CBS Broadcasting is an American English language commercial broadcast television and radio network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.