The theater company and Viacom / CBS Corporation parent National Amusements is based in Dedham.

Associate Members from the United States include ABC, CBS, NBC, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Time Warner, and the only individual station, Chicago-based classical music station WFMT.

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Top 40 music is heavily criticized by some music fans as being repetitive and of low quality, and is almost exclusively dominated by large media conglomerates such as Clear Channel Communications and CBS Corporation.

** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

Paramount's home entertainment unit continues to distribute the Paramount TV library through CBS DVD, as both Viacom and CBS Corporation are controlled by Michael Redstone's National Amusements.

* 15-Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network.

It was later owned by CBS Corporation.

When Viacom split into two companies at the end of 2005, its over-the-air broadcasting interests, including UPN, became part of CBS Corporation.

On January 24, 2006, UPN parent CBS Corporation and Time Warner, owner of The WB, announced that they were to create a new broadcast network, The CW Television Network -- for all intents and purposes, a merger of UPN and The WB.

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* Joseph Ianniello, MBA, CFO, CBS Corporation

The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995 and eventually adopted the name of the company it had bought to become CBS Corporation.

In late 2005, Viacom split itself and reestablished CBS Corporation with the CBS television network at its core.

CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, its parent.

In 1938, CBS even acquired the American Record Corporation, parent of its onetime investor Columbia Records.

Fly's panel also forbade networks from owning artists ' representation bureaus, so CBS sold its bureau to Music Corporation of America and it became Management Corporation of America.

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NBC, which had held XXVII ( according the original rotation, NBC would have had XXVI and CBS XXVII, but the NFL allowed the networks to switch the two games in order to allow CBS a significant lead-in to its coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics ), was the only network to bid on XXVIII.

McGoohan had originally only wanted to produce seven episodes of The Prisoner, but Grade argued that more shows were necessary in order for him to successfully sell the series to CBS.

This proved somewhat less than satisfactory, however, because in order to accommodate CBS ' telecasts of late afternoon National Football League games, 60 Minutes went on hiatus during the fall from 1972 to 1975 ( and the summer of 1972 ).

On January 6, 1986, CBS relocated Press Your Luck in order to make room for a Bob Eubanks-hosted revival of Card Sharks.

The documentary, shown on January 23, 1982, and prepared largely by CBS producer George Crile III, alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated Viet Cong troop strength during 1967 in order to maintain US troop morale and domestic support for the war.

The reason given by CBS was based on the Smothers ' refusal to meet the pre-air delivery dates as specified by the network in order to accommodate review by the censors before airing.

Erhard later told Larry King in an interview that he dropped the suit after receiving legal advice telling him that in order to win it, it would not be sufficient to prove that CBS knew the allegations were false, but that he would also need to prove that CBS acted with malice.

Both CBS and Philip Morris initially balked at the idea, because of the higher cost that filming the show would incur, yet acquiesced only after the pair offered to take a one-thousand-dollar a week pay cut in order to cover the additional expense.

CBS, RCA's competitor, was about to order BCE machines when Ampex introduced the superior Quadruplex system ( see below ).

CBS suggested that in order to trim the production's $ 65, 000 per episode budget, six episodes should be produced in the cheaper videotape format, eventually transferred to 16-millimeter film.

CBS strongly suggested that in order to trim the production's $ 65, 000-per-episode budget, six episodes should be produced and telecast in the cheaper videotape format, eventually transferred to 16-millimeter film for future syndicated rebroadcasts.

RCA chairman David Sarnoff later charged that the NPA's order had come " out of a situation artificially created by one company to solve its own perplexing problems " because CBS had been unsuccessful in its color venture.

The reason given by CBS was based on the Smothers ' refusal to meet the pre-air delivery dates as specified by the network in order to accommodate review by the local affiliates before airing.

However, depending on the time zone it did or did not air ( some CBS affiliates skipped the Saturday morning edition for local newscasts, and some pushed up the timeslot of the Saturday morning children's program block after the newscast if it ended before 9: 00 a. m. in order to make up for it ).

First, CBS decided to air the episodes out of order.

Six months after the pilot's broadcast, the series debuted on CBS Friday October 4, 1957 as Leave It to Beaver with the episode third in production order, " Beaver Gets ' Spelled.

The most painful result of the raids was the jump of Jack Benny and Burns and Allen to CBS, forcing NBC to offer more lucrative deals to Bob Hope, Phil Harris and Alice Faye in order to keep them from defecting.

All three doors are opened, in order of increasing value ; however, the order of reveal often changes on the CBS version based upon the trader's selection.

In 1971, the Federal Communications Commission and the House Commerce Committee issued reports claiming that CBS News financially subsidized Project Nassau, a planned 1966 invasion of Haiti intended to overthrow then-dictator François Duvalier ; CBS News allegedly became involved in the plot in order to shoot the invasion for a television documentary.

In 1988, Nash offered to retire from his duties at The National in order to keep Peter Mansbridge from accepting an offer to host the morning news at the American network CBS.

For this release, CBS and Paramount used discs without any disc art, making them look like the " Season 1 Remastered " HD DVD / DVD combo discs, despite having content only on one side.

CBS Television Distribution currently holds rights to the series ; it is ( as of 2011 ) currently broadcast on CBS. com's video archives and is not broadcast on any linear channel but is currently available via Netflix streaming ( as of November 2011.

The plan relied on the vastly different tax rates between income and capital gains, so not only would the stars enjoy more than twice their income after taxes, but CBS would preclude any NBC counterattack because CBS owned the performers ' names.

) In addition to MNF, Buck called numerous playoff games for CBS Radio, including 17 Super Bowls ( the most of any announcer ).

CBS and Carruthers only banned the two Michael Larson episodes from being rerun ; however, USA took this a step further, not airing any episodes of the first home player Sweepstakes the episodes landed in.

The rights status to The Hardy Boys ( although it is presumable, but not confirmed, that these lie with CBS due to CBS owning Simon & Schuster, the current owners of the Hardy Boys copyright and book series on which this show was based ), Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, and Sport Billy are unknown at this time, nor is it known whether or not they survive in any form.

CBS was simply never able to come up with any new hits once the shows that anchored its late 1980s / early 1990s Saturday morning lineup — Muppet Babies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Garfield and Friends, etc .— ran their respective courses.

The segment before the break would be the last anyone would see of a CBS program – or any network's programming, for that matter-until Tuesday, November 26.

The first official release of any Terrytoons material by CBS DVD has been announced ( Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was issued January 5, 2010 ).

In July 1981, CBS Inc. sued Cheap Trick and their manager Ken Adamany for $ 10 million, alleging they were attempting to coerce CBS into re-negotiating their contract and had refused to record any new material for the label since October 1980.

( The same bong could be heard on the CBS Television Network, at the top of the hour immediately before the beginning of any televised program, in the 1960s and 1970s.

This allowed CBS and any affiliates to air the documentary without edits and without fear of facing stiff fines.

CBS would not make any serious attempt to program against Today for eight years.

Unlike its competitors The Today Show and Good Morning America, The Early Show did not carry a Sunday edition, nor were there any plans for one in the near future, due to the continued success of CBS News Sunday Morning, which has a distinctly different format with long form journalism reports and in-depth interview segments.

However, some CBS affiliates continued to air the full program on another co-owned sister station and continue to air their local morning news ; WWL-TV in New Orleans has never aired the Early Show or any of its previous versions, broadcasting all local newscasts instead, currently from 5 am to 9 am.

As more people bought monochrome sets, it was increasingly unlikely that CBS could achieve any success with its incompatible system.

Cuse said the vote " reaffirms for me a feeling I've had – namely that the Nielsens aren't accurately reflecting people's interest in this show ," adding that, given Fox's then relatively small share of the market, it was notable that the show got more votes than any of the programs from NBC, CBS, and ABC.

Popular CBS anchor Walter Cronkite stated during a news broadcast on February 27, " We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds " and added that, " we are mired in a stalemate that could only be ended by negotiation, not victory.

He vowed never to work in any type of show with CBS again, although he starred in In the Heat of the Night, which aired on CBS in that show's last three seasons.

" But due to good reviews and positive fan reaction, especially from disc jockeys, who immediately hailed it as the first show that accurately portrayed the radio business in a realistic manner, CBS decided to bring WKRP back without any cast changes.