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CBS Corporation. The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
December 4, 2019. Resulting entity. ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) The 2019 merger of CBS Corporation and Viacom was announced on August 13, 2019, and was completed on December 4, 2019. The merger of equals reunited CBS Corporation and Viacom into a single company known as ViacomCBS (today known as Paramount Global) after their separation ...
In 2007, CBS Corporation announced its intent to re-enter the feature film business, slowly launching CBS Films and hiring key executives in the spring of 2008 to start up the new venture. The CBS Films name had been used previously in 1953, when it was briefly used as CBS's distributor of off-network and first-run syndicated programming to ...
On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which holds the namesake flagship channel Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (Replaced by the CW, co-owned by TimeWarner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV ...
CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent a merger with Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) and strip the proposal’s strongest advocate of significant voting power. The lawsuit ...
Les Moonves. Leslie Roy Moonves (/ ˈmuːnvɛz /; born October 6, 1949) [1] is an American media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation [2][3] from 2003 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse. [4] He has been married to TV personality Julie Chen ...
CBS Radio is one of the oldest units within CBS Corporation, and has been around since 1928. [2] However, the actual CBS Radio Network (now CBS News Radio) was launched in 1927, when CBS itself was known as United Independent Broadcasters. [3] Columbia Records later joined in and that company was renamed the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting ...