CBS had not asked the Estate for permission.

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

The opening instrumental " Fire On High ", with its mix of strings and blazing acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as background music on CBS Sports Spectacular montages, though most viewers had no idea of the song's origins.

Within days it was reported that Fox had been excluded from an interview with administration official Ken Feinberg, with bureau chiefs from the White House press pool ( ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN ) coming to Fox's defense.

A friend of Roberts was Kathryn Kuhlman, another popular faith healer, who gained fame in the 1950s and had a television program on CBS.

Though the show had respectable ratings ( it sat at # 16 for the 1970-71 season ), it was dropped in July 1971 by CBS as part of the so-called " Rural Purge " ( along with fellow country-themed shows The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R. F. D.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

After some TV commercial and radio appearances, including the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974, Patinkin had his first success in musical theater, where he played the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979.

Just before his death, Moore had secured a job for him in the CBS mailroom.

The FCC had briefly approved a different color television standard, starting in October 1950, which was developed by CBS.

Meanwhile, CBS, ABC, and NBC had each acquired the maximum of five stations by the mid-1950s.

In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well.

Television rights to Paramount's library, included properties owned outright, and those only for certain media, are currently held on Paramount's behalf by Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( Trifecta had inherited this library from CBS Television Distribution in 2009 ).

In 1965, he was invited to appear on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret, where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built.

However, the Emmy award-winning success of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine led many to believe that she had broken the curse.

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.

Super Bowl XXVI was not originally in CBS ' rotation ; since it had just broadcast Super Bowl XXIV two years earlier.

Instead, the NFL made an exception for CBS, which had acquired the rights to the 1992 Winter Olympics, and allowed the network to air the Super Bowl as a lead-in program for its Olympics coverage.

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.

Buck wasn't intended to be the main play-by-play announcer for CBS baseball telecasts when the network acquired the sport from NBC and ABC.

Around the same time, Viacom bought out Spelling Entertainment, incorporating its library into that of Paramount itself ( in a twist of irony, Spelling's holdings contained most of the programming assets once owned by Taft, which, as mentioned before, owned the theme parks and some of the TV stations that were later acquired by Paramount ; additionally, CBS had owned a former Taft station that TVX intended to keep, WFOR-TV-formerly WCIX-in Miami, but would be sold to the network instead in 1988 ).

CBS intended to test the waters with The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special, which aired in prime time in 1995.

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.

The song was not intended to be released, but after it was used in the television special, allegedly thousands of telephone calls to CBS asking about it convinced Alpert to release it as a single, two days after the show aired.

In a May 11, 2004 interview with Denver CBS affiliate television station KCNC-TV, England reportedly said that she was " instructed by persons in higher ranks " to commit the acts of abuse for psyop reasons, and that she should keep doing it, because it worked as intended.

The U. S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld the decision in November 1958, but CBS had already consummated its deal for channel 4 several months earlier, renaming the station KMOX-TV — the call letters intended for channel 11 — and operating it for 28 years ( it is now Belo Corporation-owned KMOV ).

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It went on the air at 2: 30 p. m. on July 1, an hour after rival WNBT ( formerly W2XBS and now WNBC-TV ), making it the second authorized fully commercial television station in the United States, although the FCC issued permits to CBS and NBC at the same time and intended WNBT and WCBW to sign on simultaneously on July 1 so no one station could claim to be " first ".

CBS initially intended to show those games on Saturday afternoons, with only the interested markets receiving the broadcasts.

Originally intended to be only a set of three TV specials, the show was picked up by CBS for the 1989 fall season after two specials aired on April 18 and May 9 of that year.

CBS did not retract anything that had been said in the broadcast, but stated that it had " never intended to assert, and does not believe, that General Westmoreland was unpatriotic or disloyal in performing his duties as he saw them.

As a result, the station added the "- FM " suffix on July 29, allowing CBS to temporarily place the WBMX call letters on the former WFNA ( 1660 AM ) in Charlotte, North Carolina ; additionally, during " Mix "' s final week on 98. 5, it used the WBZ-FM call letters intended for the new station.

Aging ( it was completing its 12th season ) and declining in the ratings, CBS planned to cancel the western, but protests from viewers and even members of Congress lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall — displacing Gilligan's Island, which initially had been renewed for the fall but is canceled instead.

In 1967, the show's 12th season, CBS planned to cancel the series, but widespread viewer reaction ( including a mention in Congress and the behind-the-scenes pressure from the wife of CBS's president ) prevented its demise.

However, these replacements could not stop the ratings slide which caused CBS to cancel the series in 1993.

After dismal ratings in a Sunday night and a Thursday night time slot, CBS placed it on hiatus and was ready to cancel the show, but a viewer campaign saved the show and returned it to its Monday night slot.

Now not only being scheduled opposite NBC's Cheers, but also rival soap Knots Landing on CBS, The Colbys finished a dismal 76th for the year prompting the network to cancel the show.

Pontiac management was ordered to cancel the VOE option by GM's upper management following a TV commercial for the GTO that aired during Super Bowl IV on CBS January 11, 1970.

After just one season, Gleason and CBS agreed to cancel The Honeymooners, which aired its 39th and last original episode on September 22, 1956.

after five seasons, prompting producers Aaron Ruben and Sheldon Leonard to ask CBS to cancel it, because he desired to move to something else, " reach for another rung on the ladder, either up or down.

CBS daytime head Fred Silverman, who was not a personal fan of the genre, had seen enough by Spring 1967 and decided to cancel Password.

The producers of the series quickly responded to this new American perspective on world affairs, but CBS chose to cancel the show shortly after the second season's final episode.

In November, with affiliate pre-emptions mounting from key affiliates such as KPIX, and an economic recession causing a decline in ad revenues, CBS made the decision to cancel the serial in favor of a less-expensive game show, Tattletales.

As a result of Benaderet's death in 1968 and the void she left which the producers unsuccessfully tried to fill with Lockhart, CBS originally was going to cancel Petticoat Junction in the spring of 1969.

In February 1973, with the network locked in a battle with NBC for daytime ratings supremacy, CBS decided to cancel it, along with another “ underachiever ,” Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, in a bid to bring up the daypart ’ s overall rating.

With a primetime slot between All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights, the situation comedy was # 5 in the ratings among all shows for that television season and obtained a 24. 2 rating, tying with The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie CBS executives decided to cancel the show in response to hate mail from viewers who objected to the inter-religious marriage depicted on the series.

One new advertiser, Focus on the Family, aired a commercial featuring 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother that elicited criticism from some women's groups who demanded CBS cancel the ad because they claimed it would be divisive, under the impression that it would mention Tebow's mother was advised, for health issues, to abort her son Tim, but she chose to give birth to him.

Although slow to rise in the ratings ( he got very frustrated and asked head of CBS Daytime Bud Grant to cancel the serial ), but CBS had faith in the show and gave it a chance.

In 1986, he began working on creating another soap for CBS Daytime, but plans were halted until the end of the year when the network decided to cancel the soap Capitol and needed a replacement.

CBS wanted to cancel the show but they had Van Dyke under a three-year contract.