Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

In the fall of 1965, CBS began televising the weekly programs in color.

Frankenheimer began his directing career in live television at CBS.

The Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) began an experimental RGB field-sequential color system in 1940.

On January 20, 2000 the SOAPnet network began retransmitting soap operas originally aired on ABC, NBC and CBS.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

Later, in 1972, he began managing Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and finally in 1976 Agnetha Fältskog ( until December 1975, Fältskog was still bound to Cupol / CBS Records under a contract ).

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

However, when Richard Nixon began targeting press access and reporting, even Safer, formerly the CBS News bureau head in Saigon and London, began to do " hard " investigative reports, and during the 1970 – 71 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the South Vietnamese Army, draft dodgers, Nigeria, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.

With Dynasty at the height of its success, Collins began producing and starred in the 1986 CBS miniseries Sins and Monte Carlo.

The show began as a black-and-white pilot episode filmed for CBS on April 21, 1965.

In 1964 he began calling National Football League games for CBS television, following a four-year stint doing telecasts of the rival American Football League for ABC.

On the CBS version, the challenger always began round 2 ( unless that contestant had matched all six stars ; in this situation, the champion selected from the two questions available ).

The CBS daytime version had returning champions and the gameplay " straddled " between episodes, meaning episodes often began and ended with games in progress.

During this time she began acting for CBS ' popular Lux Radio Theater, making 22 appearances between 1935 and 1954.

Basie's 14-man band began playing at the Famous Door, a mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air conditioning.

In Westmoreland v. CBS, Westmoreland sued Wallace and CBS for libel, and a lengthy legal process began.

When Letterman moved to CBS and began Late Show, several of Late Nights long-running comedy bits made the move with him.

" Viewer Mail " on NBC became the " CBS Mailbag ", and Larry " Bud " Melman began to use his real name, Calvert DeForest.

In 1998, US television network CBS began to broadcast Martial Law ( 1998 – 2000 ) on Saturday nights, an action-drama built around Hung.

Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time.

CBS began to adapt the popular novel as a miniseries, but the historians Virginius Dabney ( a direct descendant of Jefferson's sister Martha ) and Dumas Malone successfully campaigned against it directly with the network's president William S. Paley, and persuaded him to kill the project.

* 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.

The station was also simulcasted nationally on Viacom ( which at the time owned CBS ) cable network VH1 that day.

It also is the only Super Bowl to have been simulcast in the United States by two networks: NBC had the rights to nationally televise AFL games while CBS held the rights to broadcast NFL games ; it was decided that both networks could televise the game.

Ed Ingles and Jim Kelly called the game nationally for CBS Radio.

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

* March 24 – The first regularly scheduled nationally broadcast rock & roll show, Rock ' n Roll Dance Party, with Alan Freed as host, premières on the CBS Radio Network.

The game was nationally televised on CBS the day after Thanksgiving and thus had a huge audience.

In 1975, Connors won two highly-touted " Challenge Matches ", both arranged by the Riordan company and televised nationally by CBS Sports from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CBS picked up the show nationally from Washington for eight months in 1957 under the name, The Morning Show.

The winners of the fan voted awards were showcased nationally in an awards gala broadcast on CBS and later, The Nashville Network.

He moved on to become a stringer for the CBS Evening News and later, an anchor of the morning newscast at WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio, where his interviews with Jimmy Hoffa and Billie Sol Estes were picked up nationally.

Following his playing career Dean became a well-known radio and television sportscaster, calling baseball for the Cardinals ( 1941 – 46 ), Browns ( 1941 – 48 ), Yankees ( 1950 – 51 ), and Atlanta Braves ( 1966 – 68 ) and nationally with Mutual ( 1952 ), ABC ( 1953 – 54 ), and CBS ( 1955 – 1965 ).

During the concert, which was broadcast nationally on CBS, Tyler, Perry, and the orchestra performed a medley of " Walk This Way ", " I Don't Want to Miss a Thing " and " Dream On ".

Most of the first races were nationally televised on ESPN, TNN, WTBS, ABC, and CBS.

In October, Seattle Slew and Affirmed met again in the 1½-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont, which was televised nationally on the CBS network.

In the National Football League, Allen served as play-by-play announcer for the Washington Redskins in 1952-53 and for the New York Football Giants on WCBS-AM in 1960-with some of the latter broadcasts also being carried nationally by the CBS Radio Network.

In 1933, KMOX covered the first post-Prohibition case of Budweiser beer leaving Anheuser-Busch for the White House, a story carried nationally by CBS.

In addition, The NFLPA Game will be nationally televised live on CBS College Sports starting in 2011.

He was appointed in 1975 by the National Basketball Association to serve nationally as its commissioner, where he directed the successful ABA-NBA merger that brought the American Basketball Association into the NBA, negotiated television-broadcast agreements with CBS Television, and saw game attendance increase significantly.

Greg Aiello, an NFL spokesperson, stated that NBC and CBS would not have agreed to present the simulcast without clearing the game nationally, including the aforementioned markets.

He has also appeared nationally on the CBS Morning News.

Additionally, on September 15, 2011, a game against Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania was nationally televised on the TV channel CBS Sports Network as the NCAA Division II game of the week.

She was also responsible for media relations, special projects and public affairs objectives in all aspects of CBS, and managed the CBS / TIME millennium symposium project, which resulted in the production of a series of nationally broadcast television shows.