Minneapolis is the only city and the Metrodome is the only arena to host all three events in a 12-month span ( all three of these events aired on CBS, who would go on to purchase their Twin Cities affiliate, WCCO-TV, later in the year ).

It is said that Viacom's purchase of CBS was the " death knell " for the FCC's " no duopolies at all rule ".

CBS suggested it would be interested in Henson's proposal as a syndicated series it could purchase for its owned-and-operated stations, to run one night a week in that time slot.

Scherick had joined the fledgling ABC television network when he persuaded it to purchase Sports Programs, Inc. Scherick had formed this company after leaving CBS when the network would not make him the head of sports programming, choosing instead William C. McPhail, a former baseball public-relations agent.

Around this time, Viacom, Gannett, Disney, Republic Pictures, General Electric, CBS, Time Inc., Hearst, News Corporation, TCI, Globo of Brazil, Aaron Spelling's Spelling Entertainment and Sony all tried to purchase MGM / UA.

Filipacchi and Lagardère then expanded Hachette Filipacchi Magazines in the U. S. with the purchase of Diamandis Communications Inc. ( formerly CBS magazines ), including Woman's Day, Car and Driver, Road and Track, Flying, Boating, and many others.

English Columbia continued to distribute American Columbia sister labels Okeh and Epic until 1968 when American Columbia's then parent CBS moved distribution of all its labels to the then new CBS Records created from the purchase of Oriole Records ( UK ) in late 1964.

Filipacchi and Lagardère then expanded Hachette Filipacchi Magazines in the U. S. with the purchase of Diamandis Communications Inc. ( formerly CBS magazines ), including Woman's Day, Car and Driver, Road and Track, Flying, Boating, and many others.

Despite being co-owned with Disney Channel — and targeting a similar audience, very little of Disney Channel's programming has aired on ABC Family ( except for reruns of Boy Meets World and Sister, Sister which have previously aired on that network ; in fact, episodes of Sister, Sister that aired on ABC Family until it was removed from the lineup in April 2010 were the edited Disney Channel versions as ABC Family did not purchase the original syndicated prints of the show from CBS Television Distribution ).

CBS would eventually purchase its own more powerful West Coast flagship station, 50, 000 watt KNX, and part company with KHJ.

During their partnership, the Times turned down at least two offers CBS made to purchase KTTV outright.

On May 16, 1986, former CBS subsidiary and future parent company Viacom completed its $ 122. 5 million purchase of the station and renamed it KMOV almost a month later on June 18th.

But eight months later CBS decided instead to purchase its existing St. Louis affiliate, KWK-TV ( channel 4 ).

As a condition of the channel 4 purchase, the FCC required CBS to relinquish the channel 11 license and construction permit.

After CBS ' purchase of the company, Eyemark Entertainment, the successor to Group W Productions following the CBS / Westinghouse merger, was folded into King World.

The purchase of WCAU by CBS in 1958 prompted Zacherle to leave Philadelphia for WABC-TV in New York, where the station added a " y " to the end of his name in the credits.

In June 1950, CBS teamed up with the Washington Post to purchase WOIC from Bamberger / Macy's for $ 1. 4 million.

In 1997, Westinghouse ( now CBS Corporation ) would purchase WBLK and all of ARS ' stations for $ 2. 6 Billion.

Following the purchase of Embassy's parent label, Oriole, by CBS Records in late 1964, the label was discontinued, with the final Embassy release of the 1960s being " Keep Searchin ' ( We'll Follow The Sun )" by Paul Rich and The Beatmen ( b / w " The Special Years " by Burt Shane ) in January 1965.

On December 12, 2011, CBS Television Stations announced its intent to purchase WLNY-TV, creating a duopoly with the CBS network's flagship station WCBS-TV ; terms of the purchase were originally not made public, though an FCC application for the purchase later revealed that CBS was purchasing WLNY for $ 55 million.

By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS and became its majority owner with 51 % of the business.

The Fox affiliate body features fewer stations that produce their own newscasts in comparison to stations aligned with NBC, ABC and CBS, whose vast majority of their affiliates operate their own news departments.

CBS expanded its magazine group by acquiring Fawcett Publications in 1977, and the majority of the Ziff Davis magazines in 1984.

Copyright proponents such as Sumner M. Redstone of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, majority owner of CBS Corporation, Viacom, MTV Networks, and BET, argue that copyright drives the economy by compelling creativity, and is a fundamental right for both creators and consumers.

For the majority of its run, the show had aired on Thursday nights, whether on ABC or CBS.

In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by nine corporations: News Corporation ( the Fox family of channels ), The Walt Disney Company ( which includes the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands ), CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast ( which includes the NBC brands ), Time Warner, Discovery Communications, E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision, or some combination thereof ( examples including the aforementioned The CW as well as A & E Networks, which is a consortium of Comcast and Disney ).

debuted on The CW Television Network, a joint venture between CBS Corporation ( owner of UPN ) and Warner Bros. Entertainment ( a subsidiary of Time Warner, majority owner of The WB ).

National Amusements is the majority owner of the CBS Corporation and the " new " Viacom.

Ziff Davis sold the majority of its magazines to CBS in 1984, keeping its tech magazines.

CBS Radio owns the majority of stations in the United States that broadcast the Jack FM format, a radio format that incorporates all types of popular music from the mid-50s to the present.

CBS ' radio stations, including WBZ, were spun off into a new public company, Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, in 1998 ( a move that removed the Group W name from the station's license ); Viacom announced its acquisition of the publicly held stake in Infinity on August 15, 2000 ( shortly after it merged with CBS Corporation ), a transaction completed on February 21, 2001 ( though Viacom, and CBS before the merger, had always held a majority stake in Infinity ).

Since 2000 Speed Channel has broadcast the majority ALMS races, including the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans, while some of the series ' other races have been broadcast on ABC, NBC, and CBS.

National Amusements retains majority control of both CBS and the new Viacom.

KXTV aired All My Children at 3 p. m. in the early years as an ABC affiliate ( probably because it previously aired a soap from CBS in that timeslot and to maintain a similar type of show in that slot ), before finally following the niche of airing it at noon alongside majority of the ABC stations — only after the midday newscast moved an hour earlier from noon to 11 a. m.

Ultimately, CBS dumped the four man crew and resumed the 1962 – 63 method for the great majority of games in 1965, 1966 and 1967.

Since CBS holds the rights to the AFC contract, the majority of Jets games are carried on that network.

Group W and CBS formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of channel 3, with Group W retaining majority interest.

With the current concentration of media ownership in the U. S., the NFL thus holds broadcast contracts with four companies ( CBS Corporation, NBCUniversal, News Corporation, and The Walt Disney Company, respectively ) that control a combined vast majority of the country's media.

* Westinghouse and CBS formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of KYW-TV, KCNC, KUTV and WFOR, with Westinghouse as majority owner.

National Amusements retains majority control of both CBS Corporation and Viacom.

Due to the NFL's contract with CBS, Channel 19 will continue to air the majority of the Browns ' regular season games.

CBS bought a majority interest in the Yankees in 1964, and sold the club to George Steinbrenner in 1973.