In a similar vein, CBS-backed iWon. com gave away $ 10 million to a lucky contestant on an April 15, 2000 half-hour primetime special that was broadcast on CBS.

Though CBS gave up on daytime game shows in 1968, the other networks did not follow suit.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

CBS then gave serious thought to building a stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands before selling the Yankees to George Steinbrenner in 1972 for $ 10 million.

He adopted his stage name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen.

He appeared casual in front of Western media, and gave an unprecedented interview with Mike Wallace of CBS in 2000 at Beidaihe.

After the battle for The Tonight Show, when NBC gave it to comedian Jay Leno, Letterman decided to take an offer from CBS for a late night talk show to compete with The Tonight Show.

During its campaign for FCC approval, CBS gave the first demonstrations of color television to the general public, showing an hour of color programs daily Mondays through Saturdays, beginning January 12, 1950, and running for the remainder of the month, over WOIC in Washington, D. C., where the programs could be viewed on eight 16-inch color receivers in a public building.

In February 1941, Lomax spoke and gave a demonstration of his program along with talks by Nelson A. Rockefeller from the Pan American Union, and the president of the American Museum of Natural History, at a global conference in Mexico of a thousand broadcasters CBS had sponsore to launch its worldwide programming initiative.

In 2003, after the televised NCAA Men's Basketball championship, CBS Sports gave " One Shining Moment " a new look.

When series creator Leonard Freeman died in 1974, the show's ownership was shared among Lord, CBS, and Freeman's estate, with a contract that made Lord executive producer and gave him complete control over content.

The finale received a 3. 9 / 8 rating share which gave ABC a third place finish behind NBC's Dateline ( 5. 8 / 11 ) and CBS ' Joan of Arcadia ( 4. 9 / 10 ), which starred Ritter's son, Jason.

Its first episode, on November 18, 1951, opened with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission from both the East Coast ( the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor ) and the West Coast ( the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay ), as reporters on both sides of the North American continent gave live reports to Murrow, who was sitting in the control room on CBS ' Studio 41 with director Don Hewitt.

On October 7, 2009, CBS gave the series a full-season pickup, extending the first season from 13 to 22 episodes.

On the April 4, 2007, broadcast of the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric gave a one-minute commentary about the importance of reading.

Godfrey made such an impression on the air that CBS gave him his own morning time slot on the nationwide network.

So, instead of renewing her contract to continue performing in a series of specials for the next several years, CBS gave Burnett an ultimatum.

In the 1930s, he gave early tutelage to a budding CBS Radio announcer, Mel Allen, who, like Husing, would become a legendary sportscaster.

One week before his death, Wilson gave an interview to CBS Radio which was reprinted in Chicago newspapers.

CBS gave Griffin a late-night show opposite Johnny Carson in 1969, a move which proved disastrous.

That same year, it became one of the first 16 stations in the CBS network ; two years later CBS bought KMOX, and began the process of getting approval to build a 50, 000-watt transmitter tower ; when completed, it gave the now-clear-channel station a signal that could be heard as far away as New Zealand and the Arctic Circle, making it one of the first international radio stations.

With Goodson-Todman established as a reliable producer of high-rated games for CBS, including What's My Line ?, To Tell the Truth, and I've Got a Secret, the network confidently gave the new word-association game the 2: 00 PM ( 1: 00 Central ) time slot, replacing the courtroom-themed game Face the Facts.

Instead of buying a magazine like Soap Opera Digest, in which all soap operas are covered, Soaps In Depth gave the soap viewer and potential shopper three choices: ABC Soaps In Depth, CBS Soaps In Depth, and NBC Soaps In Depth.

CBS gave the group a television variety show in the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run.

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

On 3 October 2010, CBS Sunday Morning aired an in-depth interview with Lennon that covered much of his life, including his relationship with his parents and sibling, his career, and his experience growing up as the son of one of the world's most famous celebrities.

The show was originally made for CBS but was picked up by its sister channel The CW in May 2011.

Broadcasting the events of these games provided his superstation the ability to provide Olympics-style sports programming that had been offered by only one of the three major networks ( ABC, CBS and NBC ) up to that time.

However, on the West Coast ( and all of the Mountain time zone ), because the actual end of the live games is much earlier in the afternoon in comparison to the Eastern and Central time zones, 60 Minutes is always able to start at its normal start time of 7 pm Pacific Time ( 6 pm Mountain Time ), leaving affiliates free to broadcast local news, the CBS Evening News, and other local or syndicated programming leading up to 60 Minutes.

In 1939, he showed colour television using a cathode ray tube in front of which revolved a disc fitted with colour filters, a method taken up by CBS and RCA in the United States.

Walter Cronkite, who started with United Press in Kansas City, gained fame for his coverage of World War II in Europe and turned down Edward R. Murrow's first offer of a CBS job to stay with UP, but who later went on to anchor the CBS Evening News, once said, " I felt every Unipresser got up in the morning saying, ' This is the day I'm going to beat the hell out of AP.

While trying to interview a Georgia delegate who was being escorted out of the building, CBS News correspondent Dan Rather was grabbed by security guards and was roughed up.

CBS shot a second pilot hosted by Sandy Baron, but chose not to pick up the program with either host.

The IBTE aired former CBS reporter Dan Rather's interview with Saddam Hussein as well as the news from Baghdad Bob during the run up to the US invasion of Iraq.

In 2005, Viacom and CBS announced its intention to split up only six years after Viacom bought the network and its television assets.

In February 2009, Strikeforce announced a three-year broadcast agreement with Showtime, allowing it to broadcast up to 16 events per year, as well as a deal with sister network CBS for an option to produce up to four events for them.

Therefore, CBS assured Sherwood Schwartz that Gilligan's Island would definitely be picked up for a fourth year.

* On the day the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles wrapped up their respective League Championship Series in 1969, a feature story on the CBS Evening News showed telecast clips of the ALCS game ( albeit with no original sound ).

He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

Originally, CBS opted only to pick up the series for a set of six two hour movies.

Kreuk was involved with two pilots that did not get picked up: an NBC 2010 sitcom entitled Hitched ( which was co-created by Josh Schwartz, who was also the creator of Chuck ) and a 2011 CBS drama series called 17th Precinct, which was developed by Ronald D. Moore.

Likewise the CBS network was hurt by affiliation switches in late 1994 relating to Fox picking up CBS's National Football League rights, stunting the Late Show just as it was beginning to gain traction.

Browne was born in New York City, New York to CBS radio personalities Cecil Margaret Davis and Edson Bradford Browne and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

* Jim Nantz ( born 1959 ), lead NFL and NCAA men's basketball commentator for CBS, grew up in Colts Neck.

* Leslie Moonves, president of CBS, grew up in Valley Stream

However for cable television, it picks up Time Warner Cable of Albemarle, Stanly County which means that it only gets Charlotte television stations plus WFMY, the CBS affiliate in Greensboro.