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  CBS article - CBS radio television United States television networks cable television - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
CBS is a major radio and television network in the United States.
CBS was one of the three commercial television networks that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of cable television.
In 1938 radio was a major force in entertainment while the record industry was still in the doldrums from the Great Depression, and CBS purchased its former parent company Columbia Records.
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 CBS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States.
One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established a reputation for quality; prior to the fracturing of the market under cable television, CBS's television network was one of three which dominated broadcasting in the United States.
CBS would later revive the format for television in the 1990s to tell the story of asteroids crashing to Earth, but the television format allowed for disclaimers to air at every commercial break, avoiding a replay of what happened in 1938.
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 CBS
CBS made the first color broadcasts the following year, but using technology incompatible with existing fl-and-white television which would be rejected by the FCC a few years later in favor of competing a color television standard developed by RCA.
(Elements of the CBS eye logo later inspired the logo for Lew Grade's British television company, ATV.) From the 1940s until the 1970s, CBS was considered the most prestigious of the three major television networks and as a result was known as the Tiffany network.
In 2001, CBS had a major falling out with one of its news personnel who alleged a pattern of bias in reporting (see Bias).
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/c/cb/cbs.html   (553 words)

  
 CBS - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In the days of radio, it grew to acquire one of its original founders, Columbia Records, which it sold many years later; ironically, it was more recently acquired by a company itself founded by CBS, Viacom, who owns it today.
Les Moonves is Chairman of CBS and vice-chairman of parent Viacom.
CBS has a unique tradition of always recording its dramas and sitcoms on film, even after most companies went to videotape.
open-encyclopedia.com /CBS   (1112 words)

  
 CBS -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
CBS was one of the three commercial (Click link for more info and facts about television network) television networks that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of (Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver) cable television.
CBS first broadcast television in 1939, with 1 hour of programing per day in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
From the (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s until the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, CBS was considered the most prestigious of the three major television networks and as a result was known as the (United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933)) Tiffany network.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cb/cbs2.htm   (1628 words)

  
 CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater from 1974 to 1981.
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT) was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio in the 1970s.
Created by Himan Brown (who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on Inner Sanctum and other shows dating back to the 1930s), and aired on affiliate stations across the CBS Radio network, the series began its long run on January 6, 1974.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CBS_Radio_Mystery_Theater   (535 words)

  
 CBS
CBS experimental station WCBW in New York goes on the air with a nine-hour broadcast on the attack on Pearl Harbor, which is the first television news instant special.
Arthur Godfrey debuts on CBS Television with "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," (which is already on CBS Radio), followed by "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" (title later changed to "The Arthur Godfrey Show") on January 12, 1949; the show runs until April 28, 1959.
CBS News provides its first dual radio and television coverage of the political conventions: Radio coverage is nationwide, television coverage is primarily in the East.
www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/1940.shtml   (858 words)

  
 National Broadcasting Company
Unlike CBS, which was formed as an independent programming enterprise, NBC came into existence as the subsidiary of an electronics manufacturer which saw programming as a form of marketing, an enticement to purchase radio and television receivers for the home.
The power and influence of a national network aided RCA as it lobbied to see its technology adopted as the industry standard, particularly during the early years of television and in the battle over color television.
Previously, networks had functioned as conduits for sponsor-produced programming; this move shifted the balance of power toward the networks, which were able to exert more control over programming.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/N/htmlN/nationalbroa/nationalbroa.htm   (1651 words)

  
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CBS Radio Network Correspondent Charles Osgood has been called "one of the last great broadcast writers" by no less an authority than his late colleague Charles Kuralt.
Heard daily on the CBS Radio Network, Charlie Osgood anchors and writes "The Osgood File," four commentaries on headlines or obscure news stories of his own choosing.
He was presented with the prestigious Marconi Radio Award for Syndicated/Network Personality of the Year in 1993 and the Lowell Thomas Electronic Journalism Award, by the International Platform Association, in August 1995.
www.krld.com /show.cfm?content=CharlesOsgood   (290 words)

  
 Station Announcements of WLCR-AM Carrier Current, Lewisburg/White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Although the NBC and ABC Radio Networks also had exact time-tomes, indicating the beginning of the hour, the CBS Radio Network is the only network which continues this practice, today.
However, there are many local radio stations that now have their own hourly time-tones, such as KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh(as the nation's first commercial radio station, begun 1920 November 2, KDKA pioneered the broadcast of time signals with the daily broadcast of the "Anderson Time Signals").
Each CBS Radio Network News broadcast was preceded by a precise hourly time-tone, indicating the beginning of the new hour.
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 Radio Hall of Fame - Jim Bohannon, Talk Show Host
One of America's top talk show hosts offering his listeners a unique mix of topical issues and entertainment, the self-described "militant moderate" and "voice of reason" can be heard coast-to-coast over the Westwood One Radio Network.
A veteran of radio, Bohannon began his career at hometown station KLWT/Lebanon, MO in 1960.
Jim Bohannon was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003.
www.radiohof.org /newstalk/jimbohannon.html   (220 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHY
Works, a lightly-decorated, enlisted Vietnam Veteran, served as CBS Radio Network's principal military analyst during `Desert Storm' from 16 Jan - 6 March 1991, during the `Restore Hope' landings in Mogadishu of December 1992, and during the January 1993 No-Fly Zone Crisis in Iraq.
Since early 1991, he has also been a featured analyst for CBS Radio "Owned and Operated" and key affiliate stations, commenting in over 2,400 radio appearances of from 3-50 minutes, covering military and diplomatic affairs.
I made this point on CBS Radio's network coverage of the landings and during the ongoing mission as well.
www.siri-us.com /backgrounders/Archives-WorksColumns/Bio_Works.html   (1835 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - CBS World News Roundup
The show earned CBS a reputation for outstanding, in-depth reporting and made foreign news coverage a regular part of the network’s programming.
CBS World News Roundup remains on the CBS Radio Network today, making it America's longest-running radio news program.
The CBS World News Roundup was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.
www.radiohof.org /news/cbsworld.html   (210 words)

  
 Network Cue Tones
CBS Radio (for the REAL/ORIGINAL CBS Radio Network) appears to be the ONLY traditional network with a top-of-the-hour tone...
When NBC Radio was first swallowed up by Mutual in Arlington VA in Aug/Sept.1992, they stopped doing their approx.700-Hz hourly tone...
Before that, the only other tones I recall on the network (besides the 1Khz beep at the top of the hour, which an ABC engineer once told me ABC purchased from Western Electric) was a 400 Hz tone that was three seconds long, and started ten seconds before the feed.
www.broadcasting101.ws /tones.htm   (1129 words)

  
 CBS Sports Team - CBS SportsLine.com
He came to CBS after working as play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports' coverage of the NFL for four seasons.
He will be the NCAA Final Four play-by-play commentator for the CBS Radio Network and WestwoodOne for the third consecutive year working with CBS Sports' Bill Raftery and Hall of Fame Coach John Thompson.
He was born June 21, 1960 in Milwaukee and was raised in Green Bay, Wisc. Harlan graduated from the University of Kansas in 1982 with a degree in broadcast journalism.
cbs.sportsline.com /cbssports/team/kharlan   (422 words)

  
 Ginny Prior Media Services | Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ginny is a 30 year veteran of radio, tv and print media.
She has weekly columns in the Knight-Ridder owned Montclarion newspaper in Oakland, has written dozens of magazine articles including travel essays and profiles, hosted a number of tv shows and was part of the number one morning music radio show in San Francisco for almost a decade.
Specializing in radio and print journalism, she works by the hour or by the project.
www.ginnyprior.com   (199 words)

  
 GWU: School of Media and Public Affairs
Michael Freedman is a 30-year, award winning broadcast journalist, network executive, university administrator and teacher.
As general manager of CBS Radio Network News, managing editor for the broadcast division of UPI, and a local broadcaster in Detroit, Freedman and his teams received more than 85 journalistic honors including 14 RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Freedman also created and produced the 30-part series, "Walter Cronkite"s Postscripts to the 20th Century," and managed the network's coverage of such historic events as the impeachment of President Clinton, the armed conflicts in Iraq and Kosovo, Y2K, New Year's Eve 2000 activities worldwide and the 2000 Presidential campaign.
www.gwu.edu /~smpa/faculty/michael_freedman.cfm   (364 words)

  
 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He is the sports director of KMOX/CBS Radio and has announced the Cardinal Baseball games for 38 years.
Buck has received nationwide recognition through his appearances on Monday Night Football on the CBS Radio Network, NFL Football on CBS Television, and as the 1990-91 baseball play-by-play announcer on CBS Television, as well as his broadcasts of the 1965 and 1976 All-Star Baseball games and the Japanese All-Star games.
He has anchored the CBS Radio Network Broadcasts of the World Series since 1983 and announced the National League Playoffs for the network from 1978 to 1982.
www.mosportshalloffame.com /inducteebio.asp?inducteeid=47   (334 words)

  
 CBS
CBS Radio expands; CBS begins television broadcasts in New York
CBS Radio covers World War II; CBS Television Network is born; Ed Sullivan comes to CBS; CBS-TV broadcasts first regularly scheduled news program
CBS News covers terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq; David Letterman returns to the air after 9/11; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premieres; CBS ushers in the reality TV boom
www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline   (168 words)

  
 Converted from "5167.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I believe it is more likely that the Tribune Company, after their WB Network goes full time, makes an offer to petition the FCC to upgrade KDTN's license from non-commercial as it is now, and then "make a huge donation" in return for trading their KDAF (ch.33) to NTPB.
I believe it is more likely that the Tribune Company, after their WB Network goes full time, makes an offer to petition the FCC to upgrade KDTN's license from non-commercial as it is now, and then andquot;make a huge donationandquot; in return for trading their KDAF (ch.33) to NTPB.
Too bad the CBS Radio of today doesn't have the same class to recognize the value of good, solid broadcast journalists who have made the name of "CBS" mean something.
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 Converted from "5172.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
And Jack Smith is the son of the late Howard K. Smith of CBS and ABC.
However, I must add that there was so much confusion at CBS Radio Headquarters at the time of the first bulletin that any conjecture we may talk about here is just that...conjecture.
There are a number of airchecks of CBS News legends including Allan Jackson at www.Manfrommars.com/ I'm sure that this flash is on the tape from November 22, 1963.
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 Russ Wicks Official Web Page - CBS Radio Network
New York, NY - May 13, 2003 - CBS Radio News, distributed exclusively by Westwood One, and Wired Magazine are proud to announce the debut of the new daily feature, WIRED.
CBS Radio News is heard on more than 540 stations nationwide, in every major market including WCBS-AM New York, KNX-AM Los Angeles, WBBM-AM Chicago and WTOP-AM/FM Washington DC.
CBS Radio News features exclusive and breaking news coverage, as well as CBS News-on-the-Hour, CBS World News Roundup, “The Osgood File,” “Dan Rather Reporting” and “The Dave Ross Show.” Over the past four years, CBS Radio News has won 16 Edward R. Murrow Awards.
www.russwicks.com /cbs_radio_news.htm   (370 words)

  
 CBSRMT - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a dramatic series that aired nightly on the CBS Radio Network from January 6, 1974 through December 31, 1982.
I have worked in commercial radio broadcasting all of my adult life and I think CBS Radio Mystery Theater helped spark that initial interest in radio.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the Radio Hall of Fame.
www.cbsrmt.info /charlie   (1570 words)

  
 CBS Radio's Osgood advanced false claim that FD ... [Media Matters]
CBS Radio's Osgood advanced false claim that FD...
CBS Radio's Osgood advanced false claim that FDR favored private Social Security accounts
On the February 11 edition of Osgood's news commentary, The Osgood File, which airs daily on the CBS Radio Network and is syndicated by Westwood One, Osgood presented a clip of President Bush advocating private accounts during a town hall-style meeting on February 10, then invoked Roosevelt:
mediamatters.org /items/200502140003   (310 words)

  
 Learn more about CBS in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Learn more about CBS in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
However, the CBS Radio Network's news unit -- the home of the top-of-the-hour newscasts and the "Weekend Roundup" -- is still directly supervised by CBS itself.)
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/cb/cbs.html   (611 words)

  
 music.ca - radio network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Iowa is spending millions of dollars to beef up its law enforcement intelligence network so authorities are better equipped to catch terrorists before they strike.
Two powerhouses of urban radio are teaming up to launch an African-American-centered talk-radio network, the cornerstone of which will be programming hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
IBC Radio Network Announces New Affiliate, WIBQ-AM 1220 in Sarasota, F...
www.music.ca /radio-network/reference/search   (129 words)

  
 Gunsmoke
Yes, Howard was one of several who did auditions for the radio Gunsmoke, and he was chosen from the recordings with unnamed applicants to play Marshall Dillon.
He cut a record (Matt Dillon was known as Mark Dillon in it), but since Howard was playing the lead in "Straight Arrow" on Mutual Network, his contract with Mutual would not let him play the lead in the Gunsmoke show.
Many of the radio shows were reused as television episodes during the early years.
comp.uark.edu /~tsnyder/gunsmoke/gun-radio.html   (339 words)

  
 Business Wire: Medialink Expands Reach On CBS Radio Network An... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Medialink's corporate and public relations clients now can reach more than 3,200 radio stations on the CBS Radio Network and, for the first time, CNN Radio with their news and other announcements, a 20 percent increase in coverage from its existing service.
In addition, Medialink's audio services reach 2,100 subscribers to the ABC Radio Networks and thousands more on unaffiliated stations as well as Internet-based radio sites through its Newstream.com service.
In a recent radio seminar, held on October 30 for public relations professionals in New York and hosted by Medialink, Nomar Vizcarrondo, news editor for Radio WADO, called on public relations professionals to break the old perception about Hispanics.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:94203026&refid=ink_tptd_np   (723 words)

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