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  Online NewsHour: The NFL Scores -- January 14, 1998
NFL leaders meet to discuss the planned move of the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
CBS outbid NBC for the rights to air the American Football Conference or AFC games for the next eight years, paying an unprecedented $500 million per year.
And, in effect, CBS in getting, you know, the football contract away from NBC, is declaring to the ad community and, you know, others that it's still very much in the game and willing, and that's gauged in television nowadays by your ability to lose money.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/jan-june98/nfl_1-14.html   (1768 words)

  
  NFL back on CBS after four years
CBS is adopting some of Fox's innovations, including the continuous time-score box that NBC refused to carry, slick new graphics and a one-hour pregame show.
CBS' return to the NFL isn't the only change in televised football in the first year of the new $17.6 billion, eight-year contract.
CBS' decision not to hire an accomplished veteran like Collinsworth means the network that defined pregame shows in the '70s and '80s will be playing catch-up to Fox and ESPN in the '90s.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/fb/nfl/98/08/30/cbs.owl-0.html   (848 words)

  
 NFL on CBS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CBS scored a 47.2/67 national household rating/share, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date.
Phyllis George was replaced by the 1970 Miss Ohio Jayne Kennedy from the 1978 to the 1979 NFL season.
CBS apparently underestimated the value of its rights with respect to its advertising revenues and to its promotionial opportunities for other network programming.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NFL_on_CBS   (2440 words)

  
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CBS Sports broadcasts Super Bowl IV with Kansas City beating Minnesota, 23-7, with Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson connecting with Otis Taylor on a 46-yard play for the final Chiefs touchdown.
CBS News' controversial documentary, "The Selling of the Pentagon," is broadcast and then rebroadcast a month later with a 20-minute postscript that included Vice President Spiro Agnew's views and a rebuttal by CBS News President Richard Salant.
That same day, CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton said the network would give the committee only the material that was contained in the broadcast, claiming the same First Amendment rights for broadcast journalists that print journalists enjoyed.
www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/1970.shtml   (1280 words)

  
 NFL Notebook: CBS reports Titans' Henry to be suspended   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CBS said on its pregame show that Henry would be disciplined.
They also are closing in on the NFL record for touchdown passes between a quarterback and receiver.
Williams, the first NFL rookie to start his career with three consecutive 100-yard games, has 434 yards rushing this season, besting Ameche's mark of 410 set in 1955 for the Baltimore Colts.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05269/577824.stm   (610 words)

  
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CBS News Correspondent Bob Simon is taken hostage by the Iraqis, and he and three CBS News colleagues are held for 40 days before being released.
CBS Corporation is traded under the "CBS" symbol, as the "WX" of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation is retired.
CBS News presents the first news program in HDTV, a "CBS News Special Report" on the launch of the space shuttle Discovery with John Glenn.
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 Zap2it - TV news - CBS, FOX Extend NFL Deals
CBS and FOX have each agreed to new six-year contracts with the league to continue broadcasting AFC (CBS) and NFC (FOX) games on Sunday afternoons.
CBS and FOX aren't discussing specifics of their individual deals, but the NFC package, which features more large-market teams, typically costs more than the AFC package.
The extension of the CBS, FOX and DirecTV deals mean that only Disney-owned ABC and ESPN, which carry "Monday Night Football" and the league's Sunday prime-time game, have yet to renew their agreements.
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 CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
CBS 5's Eye On Blogs is your one-stop source for hot topics and discussions happening on Bay Area blogs.
In an interview with the CBS News program 48 Hours at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, 44-year-old Hans Reiser said he was sorry he lied on the witness stand during his trial when he maintained he had nothing to do with 31-year old Nina Reiser's death.
CBS 5 - The San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports is always on with breaking news alerts and a full offering of other e-mail news updates.
cbs5.com   (640 words)

  
 The NFL In HD: CBS Calls an Audible
If CBS continued to offer just three games a week in high-def, it could have had an impact on the ratings, starting this season.
CBS converted its primetime schedule to HD earlier than its broadcast network rivals.
But the paucity of NFL broadcasts in high-def had become an embarrassment, hurting the network's image as a high-def pioneer.
www.tvpredictions.com /cbsaudible042407.htm   (417 words)

  
 The Deadbolt News - 2008 NFL Broadcast Schedule on CBS
Entering into its 49th year of NFL coverage this coming Fall, CBS has released the network's official NFL broadcast slate for fans who want to mark all of the TV games on their calendars.
In the last couple of years there has been a lot of talk about NFL expansion into the Canadian market, so this year's Toronto game will be a good test to see how the crazy Canucks fair with the NFL in their own backyard next to the faster, pass-friendly, three-down CFL.
In Week 8 of the schedule, CBS heads across the pond for a match-up between the San Diego Charger and the New Orleans Saints on October 26 before the schedule and CBS head north to Toronto in Week 14 for a match-up between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills on December 7, 2008.
www.thedeadbolt.com /news/104372/nflcbs_news.php   (619 words)

  
 CBS Corporation
CBS Sports' Jim Nantz has been named the 2005 National Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
Jim Nantz, who has covered virtually every sport for the CBS Television Network since joining it in 1985, moved up to assume the lead play-by-play job for THE NFL ON CBS for the 2004 season joining lead analyst Phil Simms on the Network's number one NFL announce team.
By 1993, he was calling play-by-play for the Network's second-team coverage of THE NFL ON CBS and all regular-season and post-season broadcasts.
www.cbscorporation.com /news/prdetails.php?id=161   (823 words)

  
 CBS Sports and DirecTV Join To Present “The NFL On CBS” In HDTV
CBS Sports and DirecTV, Inc. will join to present CBS’s primary game each week of the 17-week 2003 NFL ON CBS regular-season schedule in high definition television live on the CBS Television Network.
The NFL on CBS’s primary game broadcast in digital television’s highest definition format, 1080i, also will be made available to subscribers of DirecTV’s exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket package throughout the 17-week regular-season schedule.
CBS Sports kicks off its 44th season broadcasting the NFL, highlighted by Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, on Sunday, Sept. 7 (12:00 Noon) with The NFL Today, the Network’s pre-game studio show, followed by a full slate of seven games in Week 1.
www.avrev.com /news/0803/06.cbs.shtml   (323 words)

  
 CBS SportsLine's New 'GameCenter' Headlines NFL Coverage
CBS SportsLine's revamped "GameCenter" headlines their NFL coverage and is a must for fans and fantasy football players around the world.
CBS SportsLine NFL Insiders: CBS SportsLine Senior Writers Pete Prisco and Clark Judge are back with all the latest NFL news, analysis and expert opinions from all the action in the league.
CBS SportsLine Heads Up Fantasy Football is open to registered users of a qualified CBS network site, 18 years of age or older who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, Washington DC and Canada (excluding Quebec) (for purposes of clarity, Puerto Rico is expressly excluded).
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-05-2006/0004426826&EDATE=   (1269 words)

  
 NFL on CBS ends, begins with Gumbel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When CBS welcomed back the NFL Saturday night for the San Francisco-Seattle preseason game, it was fitting that Greg Gumbel was the man at the microphone.
Gumbel, who came back from NBC to CBS with the NFL, had been looking forward to returning.
CBS went with a two-man team when the trend is toward putting three in the booth.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/08/17/spt_ijohnfay17.html   (622 words)

  
 NFL on CBS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The NFL on CBS is the brand name of CBS's coverage of the National Football League's American Football Conference games, produced by CBS Sports.
CBS' coverage began in the 1956 NFL season, before the 1970 merger of the NFL and the AFL (American Football League, not to be confused with Arena Football League).
Fox offered a then-record $1.58 billion to the NFL over four years for the rights, significantly more than the $290 million CBS was willing to pay.
www.beteagle.com /bet/mlb/2006mlbtentativeschedule.html   (540 words)

  
 NFL on CBS - Mahalo
CBS became the first network to gain exclusivity rights to broadcast league games in 1956, and the NFL on CBS was a fixture on the network for nearly four decades.
Today, the NFL on CBS is the broadcast home for primarily AFC games, as well the coverage for the AFC Playoffs.
CBS would cover the NFL through the 1960s, and when the league merged with the upstart American Football League, they would share broadcast rights with NBC.
www.mahalo.com /NFL_on_CBS   (393 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - CBS rails at NFL officials
CBS demonstrated Sunday that TV networks can be partners with the NFL but not buddies.
Game announcers and the NFL Today studio crew used such words as "fiasco" and "hosed" to describe the officiating foul-up in the Jacksonville Jaguars' 15-10 win against the Browns that resulted in Cleveland fans pelting the field and the game improperly terminated with 48 seconds left.
CBS replays and audio helped game analyst Brent Jones point out that despite the error in using instant replay after another play had been run, the officials correctly deemed a Browns pass incomplete late in the game.
www.usatoday.com /sports/comment/martzke/2001-12-17-martzke.htm   (899 words)

  
 Listings - CBS SPORTS SPECIAL on CBS | TheFutonCritic.com
THE NFL ON CBS continues its coverage of the 2008 American Football Conference Playoffs with the national broadcasts of the AFC Divisional Playoff games on Saturday, Jan. 12 (8:00 PM, ET) and Sunday, Jan. 13 (1:00 PM, ET) live on the CBS Television Network.
CBS Sports' lead announce team of Jim Nantz and Phil Simms call the Jaguars-Patriots action live from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
CBS Sports' coverage of the AFC Playoff games is in HDTV, the highest definition television format - 1080i lines of picture resolution - along with 5.1 digital audio.
www.thefutoncritic.com /listings.aspx?id=20080109cbs02   (1761 words)

  
 CBS Sports and DirecTV partner for “The NFL on CBS” in HDTV
The HD broadcasts of the 17-week 2003 NFL On CBS game schedule will be seen on both the CBS network and via satellite on DirecTV.
The HD games will be regionalized on the CBS Television Network, but “Sunday Ticket” will be subject to the NFL’s hometown flout rule only when the hometown stadium is not sold out.
The agreement between CBS and DirecTV is for the 2003 regular-season only and will be evaluated for renewal after the season.
bth.broadcastengineering.com /ar/broadcasting_cbs_sports_directv   (383 words)

  
 Six Top Quarterbacks Compete In NFL Quarterback Challenge--AllYourTV.com
July 10th, 2001-- Six of the NFL’s top quarterbacks including Super Bowl XXXV hero Trent Dilfer, the Indianapolis Colts’ Peyton Manning, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Donovan McNabb, the Arizona Cardinals’ Jake Plummer, the San Francisco 49ers’ Jeff Garcia and the Buffalo Bills’ Rob Johnson compete in the 12th annual NFL QUARTERBACK CHALLENGE presented by DIRECTV.
CBS Sports broadcasts the competition on Saturday, July 14 (5:00-6:00 PM, ET) and Sunday, July 15 (4:00-5:00 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
CBS Sports’ lead NFL broadcast team of Greg Gumbel and Simms, along with Bonnie Bernstein, call the action.
www.allyourtv.com /pressreleases/cbs/07102001nflquarterbackchallenge.html   (229 words)

  
 Patriots-Giants broadcast to be available nationwide - USATODAY.com
The NFL Network, televising eight prime-time games this season just as it did for the first time last year, reaches about 43 million of the nation's 113 million TV households.
With the NFL campaigning to get cable TV operators to include the NFL Network in their basic packages (not as a pay-extra feature), the availability of those games has become a point of controversy.
Under NFL policy, the game also had been scheduled to be available on local TV in New York, Boston and Manchester, N.H. One of those stations, My9 WWOR in New York, did not welcome the NFL decision, saying it was in "clear violation" of the agreement.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2007-12-26-patriots-giants_N.htm   (536 words)

  
 NFL Football Transactions - CBS SportsLine.com
Suspended CB Adam Jones for one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for various off-field incidents.
Waived CB Dennis Davis from the practice squad.
CBS "eye device" is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
images.sportsline.com /nfl/transactions   (408 words)

  
 CBS Sports and DIRECTV Join to Present 'The NFL on CBS' in HDTV
CBS Sports kicks off its 44th season broadcasting the NFL, highlighted by Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, on Sunday, Sept. 7 (12:00 Noon) with THE NFL TODAY, the Network's pre-game studio show, followed by a full slate of seven games in Week 1.
In June 2001, CBS became the first to broadcast HD in Daytime when it commenced daily weekday HD broadcasts of television's leading daytime drama "The Young and the Restless." CBS is also the leader in HD sports broadcasts.
CBS broadcasts, on average, 25 hours per week of High Definition programming, more than any other broadcast network, and more original HD programming per week than any other network, broadcast or cable or satellite.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-05-2003/0001995683&EDATE=   (877 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV Daily - NFL Helps CBS Win Saturday
Three of the four networks aired Christmas-themed movies and specials Saturday, but it was football that helped push CBS to the top of the ratings.
CBS and FOX tied for third at 2.2.
At 8 p.m., the overrun of CBS' Saturday NFL game averaged 7.6/15; the network then dropped off to 3.6/7 at 8:30 with a "Robbie the Reindeer" special and averaged 5.6/11 for the hour.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,617|85288|1|,00.html   (280 words)

  
 CBS Adds James, Cross and Glanville to The NFL Today
The "we" is the new team that CBS has assembled for its flagship studio show.
CBS made sure that inexperience wouldn't be a problem this year by signing guys used to being in front of the camera.
As for those who were on last year's show, Seifert returned to the NFL as head coach of the Carolina Panthers, Allen will produce weekly features for this year's show and Jones has moved to the broadcast booth, paired with Gus Johnson.
www.armchairqb.com /NFL_preview_cbs.html   (847 words)

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