Day grudgingly persevered ( she needed the work to help pay off her debts ), but only after CBS ceded creative control to her and her son.

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.

You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on radio on ABC ( which aired it from 1947 – 49 ), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman ; and then on CBS ( 1949 – 50 ), and finally NBC, continuing until May 1961 — on radio only, 1947 – 1950 ; on both radio and television, 1950 – 1960 ; and on television only, 1960-1961.

Another TV show, Tell It To Groucho, premiered January 11, 1962 on CBS, but only lasted five months.

In the US, CBS is currently the only major network airing daily national game shows.

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.

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 ).

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.

This was followed two months later by Out There on CBS only lasting twelve episodes.

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.

NBC's national Nielsen rating of 48. 6 was the second-highest for a Super Bowl broadcast, trailing only the 49. 1 garnered by Super Bowl XVI on CBS the year before.

This would be the first Super Bowl broadcast on ABC to have the broadcast team of Michaels, Gifford, and Dierdorf in the booth ( as the 1987 season was the first year the trio was together, with Dierdorf moving to ABC from CBS ; Gifford was the only holdover from ABC's Super Bowl XIX telecast ).

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

In an August 1967 article, Dorothy Manners reported that CBS had asked McGoohan to produce 36 segments, but that he would only agree to produce 17.

CBS News claims that in the United States women who are ages 30 to 44 and hold a university degree make only 62 percent of what similarly qualified men do, a lower rate than in all but three of the 19 countries for which numbers are available.

* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

* December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

Each of the big four U. S. television networks, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, directly owns and operates a high-definition television station in Chicago ( WBBM, WLS, WMAQ and WFLD, respectively ).

CBS Television Distribution presently owns distribution rights to the entire series ( including the more widely seen and aforementioned 1965 – 72 CBS episodes ).

Paramount now also owns the theatrical rights, while Lionsgate Entertainment ( Republic's video licensee and successor to Artisan Entertainment, previously LIVE Entertainment ) holds the home video rights, and Trifecta Entertainment & Media now holds most major TV rights on behalf of Republic / Paramount ( aside from other major and minor / low budget film, TV, and video companies that distribute the public domain cartoons )-- CBS Television Distribution ( as well as its predecessor companies Paramount Domestic Television and Worldvision Enterprises ) formally held such TV rights until 2009.

* CBS Corporation owns CBS, CBS Radio ( formerly Infinity Broadcasting ), Simon & Schuster editing group, a 50 % ownership stake in The CW, etc.

In July 2008, it was reported that CBS, whose sister company owns the rights to The Streets of San Francisco, had commissioned a pilot script for a new version of the series.

On April 19, 2011, Bosley's estate and four of his Happy Days co-stars, Erin Moran, Don Most, Marion Ross and Anson Williams, filed a $ 10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show, claiming they had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts.

CBS Television Studios owns most ancillary rights to Republic's television output ( while sharing the copyrights with Republic itself ), while the theatrical side is owned outright by Viacom's Paramount Pictures.

* Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears cartoons that are based on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy are owned by CBS Television Distribution, along with The Little Rascals cartoons co-produced with King World and Harlem Globetrotters ( although WB / Turner owns The Super Globetrotters, though both Globetrotters series have been less frequently seen in recent years due to intellectual property issues ).

CBS Radio, Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States, third behind main rival Clear Channel Communications ( which owns many of the stations that were previously owned by former CBS parent Viacom before 1997 ) and Cumulus Media.

CBS Radio owns around 130 radio stations across the country.

It is currently part of CBS Corporation, which also owns the CBS radio and television networks, and jointly owns the CW Television Network.

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.

Astral Media also owns numerous billboards for outdoor advertising through its Astral Media Outdoor division, and is a major competitor to CBS Outdoor.

On June 18, 2012, Hall and CBS Television Distribution ( which now owns the Paramount Television library ) signed a deal to produce a new late-night talk show, targeted to debut in September 2013.

* Rambo and the Forces of Freedom is owned by StudioCanal ( who owns the Rambo film series ) as they are the successors to co-producers Carolco Pictures, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling DVD distribution and CBS Television Distribution handling TV distribution ;

* Early Edition ( 1996 – 2000, CTT 1999-2000 ; SPT only owns international rights, US rights are with CBS Television Distribution )

* The Guardian ( 2001 – 2004 ) ( SPT 2002-2004, co-production by CBS Productions, SPT only owns international rights, US rights are with CBS Television Distribution )

American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled " What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League " set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.

In 1973 Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60 % of American households, many seeing or hearing about homosexuality for the first time.

* Hack ( American TV series ), a CBS television series

* 1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).

Abdul kicked off 2011 by serving as lead judge, executive producer, creative partner, mentor and coach on CBS ' new dancing competition, Live to Dance ( formerly Got to Dance ) Abdul said that unlike American Idol, her new show is less about " competition " and more about " celebration.

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

* 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

* September 3 – The American soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS.

** William S. Paley, American businessman ( CBS ) ( died 1990 )

** Paula Zahn, American television journalist ( CBS News )

* January 8 – Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator ( CBS Sunday Morning )

Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States and then one of the big three American broadcast television networks.

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

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

Since there was no blueprint or precedent for real-time news coverage, early efforts of the new division used the short-wave link-up CBS had been using for five years to bring live feeds of European events to its American air.

Before the onset of World War II, CBS recruited Edmund A. Chester from his position as Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press to serve as Director of Latin American Relations and Director of Short Wave Broadcasts for the CBS radio network ( 1940 ).

It featured such popular radio broadcasts as Viva América which showcased leading musical talent from both North and South America accompanied by the CBS Pan American Orchestra under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini.

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman.

* The Dome was a location for the 2005 American CBS television series The Amazing Race 7 ( Episode 10 ), for a roadblock where the teams had to drive a double-decker bus around the car park

Dreams is an American television series that aired in 1984-1985 for one season on CBS.