* 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become " the most trusted man in America ".

Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

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 %.

Bixby took the role of young reporter Tim O ' Hara in the 1963 CBS sitcom, My Favorite Martian, in which he co-starred with Ray Walston.

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.

The show was the inspiration for the short-lived The George Wendt Show, which aired on CBS in the 1995-96 season.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

He hosted his own variety hour on CBS television, The Danny Kaye Show, from 1963 to 1967, which won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award.

In 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

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.

* About 200 Years Ago: This skit which ran during 1975-76 ( to coincide with the Bicentennial Year 1976 ) was a parody of CBS ' " Bicentennial Minutes "; in it, Grandpa Jones would deliver a fractured historical " fact " about the Revolutionary era.

Before Seinfeld, he starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom called Everything's Relative in 1987 which lasted six episodes.

In 1984, Mr. T released an album titled Mr. T's Commandments ( Columbia / CBS Records ), in much the same tone as his 1984 educational video, which instructed children to stay in school and to stay away from drugs.

A CBS news article describes a 2009 US case in which police shot and killed a man in Times Square after he opened fire on police officers with a Mac 10.

In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS ' Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.

About this time, she also made a one-off musical / variety special for CBS, titled Mary's Incredible Dream, which featured John Ritter, among others.

In the 1985 – 86 season, she returned to CBS in a series titled Mary, which suffered from poor reviews, sagging ratings, and internal strife within the production crew.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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

CBS rescinded its system in March 1953, and the FCC replaced it on December 17, 1953 with the NTSC color standard, which was cooperatively developed by several companies, including RCA and Philco.

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.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

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.

She also served as one of three co-hosts ( along with Roy Clark and Glen Campbell ) on the CBS special Fifty Years of Country Music.

Sullivan also appeared as himself on other television programs, including an April 1958 episode of the Howard Duff and Ida Lupino CBS sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

This single FCC action would render all Armstrong-era FM receivers useless within a short time as stations were moved to the new band, while it also protected both RCA's AM-radio stronghold and that of the other major competing networks, CBS, ABC and Mutual.

He is TNT's lead NBA voice, calls NFL games for CBS, and also calls NCAA tournament action for CBS and Turner Sports.

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.

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.

He also directed the CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, starring Howard Duff and Ida Lupino.

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

" The Israeli CBS also collects statistics on the rest of the West Bank and the Gaza District.

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.

CBS also debuted the theme music that would later be used for their college football coverage during this game, as well as its open that was used through 1990.

Cross would also be dropped from pregame coverage after this game and moved to the broadcast booth for the remainder of his tenure at CBS, while Bradshaw moved from the broadcast booth to co-host of The NFL Today with Musburger's replacement, Greg Gumbel.

60 Minutes is also aired via CBS Radio on several of their radio stations at the same time as the television broadcast ( in each station's own local market ), such as WCBS in New York, KNX in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, WWJ in Detroit, KCBS in San Francisco, and other stations owned by CBS.

The program's video also streams several hours after broadcast on CBSNews. com and CBS Interactive property CNET TV.

It has also been called the " Tiffany Network ," which alludes to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of its founder William S. Paley.

Other owned-and-operated stations were KNX Los Angeles, KCBS San Francisco ( originally KQW ), WBBM Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia, WJSV Washington, D. C. ( later WTOP, which moved to the FM dial in 2005 ; the AM facility today is WFED, also a secondary CBS affiliate ), KMOX St. Louis, and WCCO Minneapolis.

CBS was also hit, though not as severely: Paley's brilliant 1928 affiliate contract which had given CBS first claim on local stations ' air during sponsored time — the network option — came under attack as being restrictive to local programming.