There was a moment during last week's Super Bowl conference call that revealed the prevailing mood at CBS Sports these days. Asked by a reporter for the network's coverage plans for Sunday's broadcast, CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus responded like a man holding pocket aces in a Texas hold 'em game. "This year we're going to do nothing interesting or surprising," McManus cracked. "It will be the same old crap you see on pregame shows."
The midterm elections are nine months away, but it's not too early to begin handicapping them -- from a dollars and cents vantage point, that is.
Super Bowl network CBS rejected an ad Friday from ManCrunch.com, a gay dating Web site.
So many years, so much noise. Here's our best and worst of the decade in sports broadcasting.
Longtime fans of the soap opera "As the World Turns" are mourning the loss of their daily date with the folks in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, after CBS announced the cancellation of the long-running daytime drama this week.
Plummeting advertising sales have severely wounded media companies, but CBS is scoring big with the broadcast of this season's Super Bowl XLIV.
Last week, I posed five questions worth considering through November. We won't know the answers to four of them until later this month, but on the issue of Fedor Emelianenko's marketability, there appears to be some movement, at least anecdotally.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS, in which the television news anchor accused his former employer of breach of contract.
Tonight's 61st ceremony features new host Neil Patrick Harris and new nominees
Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as "Uncle Walter" for his easygoing, measured delivery and "the most trusted man in America" for his rectitude and gravitas, died Friday night in his New York home, CBS reported.
There was a moment during last week's Super Bowl conference call that revealed the prevailing mood at CBS Sports these days. Asked by a reporter for the network's coverage plans for Sunday's broadcast, CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus responded like a man holding pocket aces in a Texas hold 'em game. "This year we're going to do nothing interesting or surprising," McManus cracked. "It will be the same old crap you see on pregame shows."
The midterm elections are nine months away, but it's not too early to begin handicapping them -- from a dollars and cents vantage point, that is.
Super Bowl network CBS rejected an ad Friday from ManCrunch.com, a gay dating Web site.
So many years, so much noise. Here's our best and worst of the decade in sports broadcasting.
Longtime fans of the soap opera "As the World Turns" are mourning the loss of their daily date with the folks in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, after CBS announced the cancellation of the long-running daytime drama this week.
Plummeting advertising sales have severely wounded media companies, but CBS is scoring big with the broadcast of this season's Super Bowl XLIV.
Last week, I posed five questions worth considering through November. We won't know the answers to four of them until later this month, but on the issue of Fedor Emelianenko's marketability, there appears to be some movement, at least anecdotally.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS, in which the television news anchor accused his former employer of breach of contract.
Tonight's 61st ceremony features new host Neil Patrick Harris and new nominees
Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as "Uncle Walter" for his easygoing, measured delivery and "the most trusted man in America" for his rectitude and gravitas, died Friday night in his New York home, CBS reported.
The case of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" on national television -- and subsequent fines against CBS -- will be re-examined at the order of the Supreme Court.
The venerable CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" will go dark in September after 72 years and 16,000 episodes, the network announced Wednesday.
Two new national polls suggest that support for an $800 billion stimulus plan to pump up the economy has slipped since mid-January, but may have stabilized in the past week.
A federal appeals court threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction"
A Philadelphia appeals court Monday threw out the $550,000 indecency fine levied on CBS in connection with Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl.
The drama around the possible defection from Paramount of the cinematic powerhouses behind DreamWorks is headline-grabbing - but it's only a distraction from what must really be driving Sumner Redstone crazy: In tough times for media giants, Viacom and CBS are doing even worse than their peers.
The violent sport of mixed martial arts was once banned in nearly every state. Now it's getting prime exposure on CBS. Get ready for the real blood
A decade after teaming up to cover the Nagano Winter Olympics for CBS, commentator Gus Johnson and Showtime boxing and mixed martial arts producer David Dinkins Jr. are together again.
Britney Spears, who proved she's worth a cool million viewers to How I Met Your Mother, is paying another visit to the CBS sitcom
Is Sumner Redstone simply looking for leverage in his negotiations with CBS's Showtime? It sure looked that way Monday when Redstone's Viacom announced that its movie studio Paramount Pictures is in talks with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Lionsgate to create a new premium pay-tv cable channel - potentially making it a direct competitor to its current cable distributor and former corporate sibling over at CBS.
Richard Butler, the CBS journalist rescued by Iraqi soldiers in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, described a quick escape and "brilliant" military work that ended his two long months of captivity.
Though her contract ends in 2011, the anchor could exit in January 2009
You like him. You hate him. And if you are one of the nearly 5,400 people who signed this petition, you want him off the air immediately.
SI.com's Richard Deitsch checks in every Monday with the latest doings in TV, radio and the Web.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to jump back into the free speech debate over whether broadcast television networks should be penalized for indecent or vulgar language that slips through inadvertently on a live or unscripted broadcast.
It's no secret that the Internet, digital video recorders and video games are sucking audiences away from broadcast television and radio. Just how painful that shift is for traditional media hit home Tuesday when CBS, owner of the country's most popular television network, released its earnings.
Media conglomerate CBS Corp. will release quarterly earnings for the final three month-period of 2007 Tuesday. Whatever its final numbers look like for 2007, they are sure to be better than those the company will tally in the foreseeable future, say analysts.
Military prosecutors say unaired footage of a CBS interview given by a Marine squad leader contains admissions of crimes in an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians
The Hollywood writer's strike has ended, but that leaves the question of when favorite shows will return to television
1. Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn, ESPN reporters: Investigative reporting is hardly a glamorous endeavor. Where sports columnists and television personalities are the gliteratti of the profession, most reporters who specialize in muckraking rarely see the klieg lights of Pardon The Interruption or the seven-figure salaries of Kornheiser-Wilbon Inc. But such reporters are invaluable when it comes to the collective gravitas of a news organization.
About 500 unionized news writers, employees of CBS News television and radio, could soon join their creative colleagues on the picket line
On the night before the Colts-Panthers game last weekend, a group of CBS staffers including NFL on CBS coordinating producer Lance Barrow, game announcer Jim Nantz and analyst Phil Simms sat down with Colts coach Tony Dungy for the network's traditional pre-game information session with the head coaches. "So I guess you guys are doing the game next week," Dungy said to the CBS crew. Told the network was indeed broadcasting the Colts-Patriots game, Dungy smiled. "Who are we playing again?"
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather says the $70 million lawsuit he filed Wednesday against his former employer is an effort to strike a blow against political and corporate influence that he believes threatens the independence of American journalism.
Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.
CBS Corp. should not be fined for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction" because the stunt was both fleeting and unauthorized, a lawyer for the company argued Tuesday.
CBS announced Tuesday that its board has approved an increase in the quarterly dividend as well as a $1.6 billion stock buyback.
Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating with WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there
U.S. broadcaster CBS has settled its termination dispute with fired radio shock jock Don Imus, the company said Tuesday, a possible step toward Imus going to work for a rival broadcaster.
CBS Corp. on Tuesday said second-quarter earnings fell sharply from a year ago, when it was helped by a tax benefit and the sale of its Paramount Parks, but it still beat expectations on stronger results from its publishing and outdoor divisions.
Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show The Price Is Right
News Corp. has MySpace. Walt Disney has ESPN and its cozy relationship with Apple and iTunes. Viacom owns MTV. Time Warner is the parent of the hot celebrity site TMZ.com.
Ahhh spring. With apologies to Lord Alfred Tennyson, it's a time when many a TV executive's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of advertising dollars.
CBS said Thursday it fired Don Imus from his radio show after a public outcry regarding slurs he used about the Rutgers' women's basketball team last week.
CBS has fired Don Imus. But Dan Mason is still walking into the toughest job in the media business.
This has been a nerve-racking year for investors, with oil prices up, growth slowing and worries that the meltdown in the subprime-mortgage market could spill over into other parts of the economy. ...
If the person or persons who coined the phrase "Selection Sunday" happen to be reading this column, please contact SI.com immediately. I'd like to send you something nice from the gift closet (an autographed photo of Seth Davis?) for birthing such an alliterative title. As best as I can find, the phrase dates back to 1985 when Chicago Tribune writers Skip Myslenski and Linda Kay used it in a college basketball column two days after the tournament draw was announced. "Some lucky teams are granted this home-court luxury every year on Selection Sunday," wrote the Tribune reporters, referring to those fortunate souls playing opening round games in their campus gyms.
It's March. And you know what that means. For many Americans the world will stop and the only thing that will matter to them is what their brackets look like in their college basketball office pools.
It's a month away, but I can already tell you that Masters Sunday will be special. I know this because it's going to begin with Arnold Palmer winning the Masters.
"If you've been disrupted, it means your business model is broken."
CBS is counting on a "Super"-sized audience to tune into this Sunday's big game between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears.
CBS was supposed to be the boring investment once it became a standalone public company a year ago.
Remember these dumbest moments? Here are some of the highlights of stupidity in 2004.
The chief executive officer of Sirius Satellite Radio told investors Wednesday that he would be open to a combination with his company's top rival, XM Satellite Radio.
Frank Stanton, the broadcasting executive who as president of CBS for 26 years helped build it into the "Tiffany Network," died on Sunday at age 98.
CBS is getting back into the record business - eighteen years after it first exited the music industry.
Ed Bradley, the longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent whose probing questions and deceptively relaxed interviewing manner graced some of that show's most notable reports, has died. He was 65.
Nearly 13.6 million people tuned into watch Katie Couric in her debut as the host of CBS's nightly news telecast on Tuesday, the network said Wednesday.
Katie Couric is finally making her long-awaited debut as the anchor of the CBS Evening News on Tuesday. But while that may be big news on Main Street, analysts say it doesn't mean much for Wall Street.
The calendar says August. But for big TV networks, the leaves might as well have already changed colors.
XM Satellite Radio has crashed and burned and now some are starting to wonder if the company could be a takeover target. Shares have plummeted more than 60 percent this year.
CBS is launching a new advertising campaign by the carton this fall.
Television advertising executives are biting their nails this year as advance ad sales fall short of last year's tally, according to a report Wednesday.
There has been a lot of chatter about how network television is starting to lose some of its allure thanks to the growing popularity of online video and digital video recorders that allow people to fast forward through ads.
The crackdown on broadcast indecency that began with an exposed breast turns out to have legs - as well as serious consequences for the television business.
CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier arrived Wednesday in the United States, where she will receive further treatment for wounds suffered in a Baghdad car bombing last week.
It's the 12th day of filming at a combat hospital for CNN cameraman Dominic Swann and me. In all the days spent there -- the last thing we ever thought we'd see is a colleague lying on one of the beds -- fighting for her life.
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier remained in critical but stable condition Friday, four days after she was severely injured in a Baghdad car bombing, hospital officials said. She is expected to return to the United States on Sunday.
Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, who was critically wounded Monday in a Baghdad car bombing, has begun communicating, asking family members about the fate of her crew, CBS News said Thursday.
CBS gets a bad rap.
CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was "doing as well as can be expected" a day after being critically wounded in a roadside bomb attack that killed two colleagues, according to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
Four people, including a U.S. soldier and two members of a CBS News crew, were killed Monday when a bomb ripped through the U.S. military convoy in which they were traveling.
The major TV networks trotted out their biggest stars and presented their fall schedules to advertisers this week during lavish presentations in New York City known as the upfronts.
$9.1 billion.
Leslie Moonves has spent his entire career trying to get people to watch television. He's been pretty good at it too. When he was president of Warner Bros. Television in the early '90s, he oversaw ...
The media industry was shaped by moguls who wanted more of everything -- more newspapers, more radio and TV stations, more studios, more power. The great empire builders included William Randolph Hearst and Al Neuharth, David Sarnoff and William Paley, Steve Ross and Lew Wasserman, Walt Disney and Michael Eisner, Rupert Murdoch and -- yes -- Sumner Redstone.
Leslie Moonves has spent his entire career trying to get people to watch television. He's been pretty good at it too. When he was president of Warner Bros. Television in the early '90s, he oversaw the development of hit shows like Friends and ER, which became part of NBC's Thursday night "Must-see TV" lineup. He leaped to CBS in 1995 and proceeded to break the Peacock network's hold on Thursday night with phenomenally popular shows like Survivor and CSI.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - After months (that seemed like years) of speculation, Katie Couric has finally announced that she will jump ship from NBC to CBS.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Online video has arrived in a big way.
Veteran CBS correspondent Mike Wallace is retiring from "60 Minutes" after more than 40 years at the network, it was announced Tuesday.
(This story originally ran on March 9)
Half way there folks ...
Leslie Moonves got a little carried away last year talking about the changes he was mulling for the CBS Evening News after the departure of Dan Rather. "On the one hand we could have a newscast lik...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - There has been a lot of talk on Wall Street about one media megalith breakup that probably isn't going to happen. But there recently was another media split that did happen, and investors will soon get their first glimpse of just how it's working out.
CBS is looking to sell its theme parks, which account for about $1.1 billion in annual sales, according to a published report.
Thinking about networks and copiers this morning ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Who will be the big winner from the creation of the new CW television network? Here's a hint. It might not be CW or even the other major TV networks.
Warner Brothers and CBS Corp. announced plans Tuesday for the creation of a new broadcast television network, called CW, that would replace the WB and UPN networks in the fall of this year.
The critical November sweeps period for television networks is drawing to a close. But so far, there haven't been too many surprising plot twists.
ABC, NBC and CBS may embrace the idea of video on demand, typically only found in the realm of cable TV, in an attempt to boost revenue, according to a news report published Monday.
This weekend, Reese Witherspoon stars as a disembodied spirit in "Just Like Heaven."
CBS News -- apparently worried that TV news is on the way out and that high-speed Internet news is the way of the future -- Tuesday announced plans to expand its news presence online.
CBS announced Thursday that its on-again, off-again Martha Stewart movie is back on -- and timed to take advantage of a heavy dose of Martha planned for the fall.
CBS and Fox are on track to post solid advertising gains for the 2005-06 television season, according to newspaper reports Friday.
Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, recalling the stinging criticism he and the network received after airing a controversial story on President Bush's National Guard service, admits he was a victim of his "own shortcomings."
CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves has an unexpected scapegoat for the network's expected No. 2 finish behind rival network Fox in a key ratings fight: New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera.
CBS has canceled the Wednesday edition of its news magazine "60 Minutes," CBS spokeswoman Kelly Edwards said Wednesday.
Television viewers hungry for the inside scoop on Martha Stewart's recent prison stay will have to wait.
A CBS stringer has been arrested as a suspected insurgent, U.S. military officials said Friday.
NBC Universal CEO Robert Wright said Thursday that talk of the impending death of evening news shows on broadcast television have been greatly exaggerated, and criticized rival CBS for thinking about ending the traditional format.
Veteran anchorman Dan Rather sent a memo to his CBS News colleagues Tuesday calling for "a renewed dedication to journalism of the highest quality."
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