When Viacom split into two companies at the end of 2005, its over-the-air broadcasting interests, including UPN, became part of CBS Corporation.

When Reasoner left CBS to co-anchor ABC's evening newscast ( he would return to CBS and the show in 1978 ), Morley Safer joined the team in 1970, and he took over Reasoner's duties of reporting less aggressive stories.

When Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after twenty years of pantomime, he chose CBS air to do it on

When CBS revamped Match Game in 1973 with more of a focus on risqué humor, ratings more than doubled in comparison with the NBC incarnation.

When Letterman moved to CBS and began Late Show, several of Late Nights long-running comedy bits made the move with him.

When Lombardo switched to NBC, Burns and Allen took over his CBS spot with The Adventures of Gracie beginning September 19, 1934.

When The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, aka The Burns and Allen Show, began on CBS Television October 12, 1950, it was an immediate success.

When asked to comment, the CBS star said that he wouldn't consider presenting Presley before a family audience.

When CBS was purchased by Viacom, which also owned Nickelodeon, Viacom simply repurposed much of the Nick Jr. lineup — in addition to adding a Saturday edition of the CBS morning-news program The Early Show.

" When I flew to New York and showed it to Mike Wallace, the star reporter of CBS ' 60 Minutes, he agreed.

When CBS testified before Congress in March 1953 that it had no further plans for its own color system, the National Production Authority dropped its ban on the manufacture of color television receivers, and the path was open for the NTSC to submit its petition for FCC approval in July 1953, which was granted on December 17.

When she was 17 years old, two of her teachers urged her to enter a contest on Gateway to Hollywood, broadcast from the CBS Radio studios in Hollywood, California.

When the NTSC proposed that their new standard be ratified by the FCC, CBS dropped its interest in its own system.

When the named reaction is difficult to pronounce or very long as in the Corey-House-Posner-Whitesides reaction it helps to use the abbreviation as in the CBS reduction.

When the series moved to CBS in 1965, the latter network assumed full production responsibilities ( in association with Fedderson Productions ) until the end of the series in 1972.

When the deal with CBS / Fox ( inherited from Magnetic Video ) expired in 1989, the UA films began to be issued through MGM / UA Home Video.

When the show debuted in CBS's Monday night lineup in 1986, it garnered respectable ratings ; however, CBS moved the show several times to other time slots.

When CBS tried to sue, Ward uttered the aforementioned statement.

When she refused, General Foods cancelled their sponsorship, and CBS dropped it from their schedule by June 1951.

When the show reformatted with new hosts and set they used an instrumental version of Sting's 1999 hit, " Brand New Day " until late October 2006, when it was replaced by the CBS Evening News theme from James Horner.

When CBS re-formatted the early morning broadcast, the CBS Morning News became a pre-dawn 30 minute news broadcast.

When CBS canceled its Block Party line-up with shows such as Family Matters, and Step By Step, the network moved the show to its 8: 00 p. m timeslot.

When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

When Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil Corporation in 1999, the newly merged company ended enrollment in Mobil Corporation's domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of employees, and it rescinded formal prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation by removing it from the company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting signed on to sponsor the program, the organization's chairperson was Frank Pace.

When he died in 1937, the painting was offered to the Corporation of Hampstead.

When Informix Corporation acquired Illustra and made their database engine an object-SQL DBMS by introducing their Universal Server, both Oracle and IBM followed suit by changing their database engines to be capable of object-relational extensions.

When it was evident he was not coming back, Mae went to work for the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ).

When Anne Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend Louis Dell ' Ollio, became head designer of the house.

When the city lost the bid for the Olympics, revitalization plans were rolled over to the Coney Island Development Corporation ( CIDC ), which came up with a plan to restore the resort.

When the magazine editor said that subscribers wanted to buy the program, Bruce Artwick set to work to create it and incorporated a company called subLOGIC Corporation in 1977. subLOGIC began selling flight simulators for several computer platforms including the 8080, Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080.

When Burger King Corporation began franchising in 1959, it used a regional model where franchisees purchased the right to open stores within a geographic region.

When his producer Ned Marin moved from First National to the Fox Film Corporation Korda followed him.

* Barry Yeoman, When Is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave ?, Mother Jones

When the managing editor Marcus Brauchli resigned on April 22, 2008, the committee said that News Corporation had violated its agreement by not notifying the committee earlier.

When this bill was defeated for the third time, Barbauld wrote one of her most passionate pamphlets, An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.

The British Broadcasting Corporation writes, " When considering abortion, the Hindu way is to choose the action that will do least harm to all involved: the mother and father, the foetus and society.

When Texaco ( now Chevron Corporation ) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.

When Vitaphone was abandoned in favor of sound-on-film systems — and record industry sales plummeted due to the Great Depression -- Warners leased the entire Brunswick record operation to the American Record Corporation ( ARC ) in December 1931.

When Owen D. Young of the General Electric Company arranged the purchase of American Marconi and turned it into the Radio Corporation of America, a radio patent monopoly, Sarnoff realized his dream and revived his proposal in a lengthy memo on the company's business and prospects.

When asked in a 2001 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the resurgence of the PC Party if he would ever consider running for the PC leadership, MacKay quipped, " If there's one thing I've learned in politics it's ' never say never.

When Paul Desmarais acquired control of Power Corporation in 1968, the two companies were merged to become Consolidated-Bathurst Inc.

When working for the Emergency Fleet Corporation he read John Woolman's journals.

When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. ( which included the video game divisions ) to Jack Tramiel ( who named his company Atari Corporation ), Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division ( Atari Coin ), renaming it " Atari Games ".