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 | | }} CBS (an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. |
 | | A.C. Nielsen estimated in 2003 that CBS can be seen in 96.98% of all American households, reaching 103,421,270 homes in the United States. |
 | | CBS became the center of a new company, CBS Corporation, which included the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations, Viacom Outdoor advertising (renamed CBS Outdoor), Showtime, Simon & Schuster, and Paramount Parks - although the company announced plans to divest itself of the parks division in January of 2006. |
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