Onetime CKSO employee Judy Jacobson was the first woman in Canadian broadcasting history to work on air as a television weather reporter.

In July 2008, VirtualTourist. com, Inc. and sister site Onetime were acquired by global Internet travel company Expedia ( owners of Tripadvisor. com ) for a reported $ 85 million.

The publicity surrounding the commercial landed her in a front page article in The Wall Street Journal in June 1983 entitled A Onetime Choirgirl Rules as Sex Goddess On Puerto Rican TV.

Onetime Lizzy Borden guitarist Joe Holmes also played with David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne, and Swedish-born bassist Marten Andersson has also toured and recorded with Lynch Mob and Legacy.

* 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 ".

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.

An academic content analysis of election news later found that coverage at ABC, CBS, and NBC was more favorable toward Kerry than Bush, while coverage at Fox News Channel was more favorable toward Bush.

* Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg ( 2001 )

* 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.

* 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U. S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

* CBS News article-' Shadow Government ' News to Congress March 2, 2002

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

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.

* Ryan Smith, CBS News, 48 Hours

Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.

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

Initially, 60 Minutes aired as a bi-weekly show hosted by Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10: 00 p. m.

Hewitt, who had been a producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, sought out Wallace as a stylistic contrast to Reasoner.

However, the initial season was troubled by lack of network confidence, as the show did not garner ratings much higher than that of other CBS News documentaries.

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.

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.

The show's success has led CBS Sports to schedule the Masters Tournament, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and other events leading into 60 Minutes and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, thus ( again, except on the West Coast ) pre-empting the Sunday editions of the CBS Evening News and affiliates ' local newscasts.

CBS News engineers prepare a remote: Justice Hugo Black's 1937 denial of Klan ties

* CBS News

In 1969, the veteran reporter became the co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, first with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, Harry Reasoner.

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.

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

* Frank Stanton – Researcher from CBS sent to help the project, went on to become president of CBS.

Dr. Frank Stanton, second only to Paley in his impact on CBS, president 1946 – 1971

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Jack Sussman, CBS's senior vice president in charge of specials, said the Tony show sold almost all its advertising slots shortly after CBS announced it would present the three hours.

One of these efforts, the Digital Audio Recorder Copycode Act of 1987 ( introduced by Sen. Al Gore and Rep. Waxman ), instigated by CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff, involved a technology called CopyCode and required DAT machines to include a chip to detect attempts to copy material recorded with a notch filter, meaning that copyrighted prerecorded music, whether analog or digital, whether on LP, cassette, or DAT, would have distorted sound resulting from the notch filter applied by the publisher at the time of mastering for mass reproduction.

However, under pressure from network president William S. Paley and his wife Babe, along with many network affiliates and longtime fans of Gunsmoke ( which had been airing late on Saturday nights ), to reverse its threatened cancellation, CBS rescheduled the Western to an earlier time slot on Monday evenings at 7: 30 P. M. As a result, Gilligan's Island was unceremoniously canceled at practically the last minute even though the cast members were all on vacation.

This was done against the wishes of Carson, who had always seen Letterman as his rightful successor, according to CBS senior vice president Peter Lassally, a onetime producer for both men.

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.

In a press conference held hours before the suit was filed, Stern said it was nothing more than a " personal vendetta " against him by CBS president Leslie Moonves.

* Frank Stanton, past president of CBS

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

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

* John Royston Coleman, economist, president of Haverford College, and host of CBS program Money Talks ; innkeeper of The Inn at Long Last in Chester

Ailes also hired former CBS executive Dennis Swanson in October 2005 to be president of the Fox Television Stations Group.

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 book " Flashbacks " wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and " harangued " Safer's boss, CBS president Frank Stanton, about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War.

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 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.

CBS News chairman Jeff Fager and CBS News president David Rhodes stated that the new show would " redefine the morning television landscape.

The 40-year media industry veteran and former president of CBS Digital Media, is tasked with developing a new strategy for the paper as it seeks to increase revenue from its digital operations.

Peter Roth, at that time the president of Stephen J. Cannell Productions, obtained a copy of Carter's pilot script for Cool Culture, and although the series was never picked up, Roth was interested in hiring Carter to work on the CBS series Palace Guard.

CBS president William S. Paley convinced Gleason to leave the DuMont Network and bring his show to CBS.