CBS

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CBS

Founded	1939
President	Les Moonves
Company	CBS Corporation
Current Popular Series	60 Minutes The Amazing Race CSI Survivor Two and a Half Men

CBS is a national broadcast network in the USA. The acronym originally stood for Columbia Broadcasting System but since 1995 is longer officially an acronym as the network no longer has an affiliation with the Columbia brand now owned by Sony. The TV side was founded by William S. Paley in 1939; CBS radio was founded in 1927 by Columbia Records.

1 History
2 In-Depth
3 Current Shows (2009–2010 Season)
- 3.1 Primetime
- 3.2 Non-Primetime
4 Current Primetime Schedule
5 Current Non-Primetime Schedule
6 External Sites

[edit] History

In April of 1927 the Columbia Phonographic Manufacturing Company (also known as Columbia Records but not affiliated with Columbia Pictures until Sony purchased both in the late 1980s) purchased the start-up radio network United Independent Broadcasters and renamed it the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. It went on the air September 18, 1927 on flagship station WOR in New Jersey and 15 affiliates. A week later unable to sell enough ad time Columbia sold the radio network to William S. Paley who dropped the Phonographic portion of the title arriving at the acronym still used today. Paley used finesse in attracting advertisers to the network, stars to its radio shows and lining up affiliates in a hurry. Ten years later CBS would buy its former investor Columbia Records outright (it would later sell Columbia Records to Sony in 1988).

The TV component started in a limited capacity, airing one hour a day on New York experimental station W2XAB (today flagship WCBS/channel 2). CBS had bought Hytron laboratories to develop a color TV system, but their process was turned down by the FCC in favor of RCA (NBC's parent company). CBS lagged behind DuMont and NBC in shoring up programming, starting up new affiliates nationwide once NBC made black-and-white broadcast universal. One of those new affiliates was Los Angeles' KTTV/channel 11, in which CBS owned a 50% stake. Due to a duopoly law with DuMont, CBS would sell its stake in KTTV, buy DuMont affiliate KTSL/channel 2 and move CBS there. It was renamed KNXT (after its radio counterpart KNX). Today it is west coast flagship KCBS.

In the 1950s as CBS began to pick up steam, the famous Eye logo came into the fold. It was designed in 1951 by William Golden and was inspired by a Shaker drawing and a Dutch hex sign in Pennsylvania. CBS was still behind NBC when it came to color broadcasting; RCA had developed approved color cameras and CBS was not going to co-op with the competition. CBS continued in black-and-white through the mid 60s, except where sponsors would pop for the occasional nighttime special. By 1965, CBS had graduated to color but only by necessity.

During the ensuing decades, CBS had been owned by Westinghouse and Paramount-Viacom. They are now self-owned, having been divested from Viacom earlier in the 2000s but both companies are still technically controlled by Sumner Redstone's National Amusements. On May 4, 2006 CBS started their online content delivery site, innertube.

[edit] In-Depth

Program Listing: A listing of shows aired on CBS.

[edit] Current Shows (2009–2010 Season)

[edit] Primetime

Scripted Series

Accidentally on Purpose (Season 1)
The Big Bang Theory (Season 3)
The Bridge (Season 1) (mid-season)
Cold Case (Season 7)
Criminal Minds (Season 5)
CSI (Season 10)
CSI: Miami (Season 8)
CSI: NY (Season 6)
Flashpoint (Season 3) (mid-season)
Gary Unmarried (Season 2)
Ghost Whisperer (Season 5)
The Good Wife (Season 1)
How I Met Your Mother (Season 5)
Medium (Season 6)
The Mentalist (Season 2)
Miami Trauma (Season 1) (mid-season)
NCIS (Season 7)
NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 1)
The New Adventures of Old Christine (Season 5)
NUMB3RS (Season 6)
Rules of Engagement (Season 4) (mid-season)
Three Rivers (Season 1)
Two and a Half Men (Season 7)

Non-scripted Shows

48 Hours Mystery (Season 6)
60 Minutes (Season 42)
The Amazing Race (Season 15)
Arranged Marriage (Season 1) (mid-season)
Big Brother (season 12) (summer 2010)
Survivor (Seasons 19-20)
Undercover Boss (Season 1) (mid-season)

[edit] Non-Primetime

Daytime Dramas

Daytime News

Daytime Talk / Game / Reality Shows

Late Night Shows

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (Season 6)
Late Show with David Letterman (Season 16)

Saturday Morning Children Shows (Kewlopolis)

[edit] Current Primetime Schedule

Day	7:00	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
Monday		How I Met Your Mother	Accidentally on Purpose	Two and a Half Men	The Big Bang Theory	CSI: Miami
Tuesday		NCIS		NCIS: Los Angeles		The Good Wife
Wednesday		The New Adventures of Old Christine	Gary Unmarried	Criminal Minds		CSI: NY
Thursday		Survivor		CSI		The Mentalist
Friday		Ghost Whisperer		Medium		NUMB3RS
Saturday		Crime Time Saturday		Crime Time Saturday		48 Hours Mystery
Sunday	60 Minutes	The Amazing Race		Three Rivers		Cold Case

[edit] Current Non-Primetime Schedule

[edit] Morning

Day	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	10:30	11:00	11:30
Weekday	The Early Show						The Price Is Right
Saturday	Busytown Mysteries	Noonbory and the Super 7	Busytown Mysteries	Sabrina, the Animated Series (repeats)	The Early Show		Busytown Mysteries	Noonbory and the Super 7
Sunday					CBS News Sunday Morning	Face the Nation

[edit] Afternoon and Evening

Day	12:30PM	1:00PM	1:30PM	2:00PM	2:30PM	3:00PM	3:30PM	4:00PM	4:30PM	5:00PM	5:30PM	6:00PM	6:30PM
Weekday	The Young and the Restless		The Bold and the Beautiful	As the World Turns		Let's Make a Deal							CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Weekend	Various Sports												CBS Evening News with Russ Mitchell