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Westinghouse renamed to CBS Corporation: 2000: Viacom acquires UPN and CBS Corporation: 2005: Viacom splits into second CBS Corporation and Viacom: 2006: CBS Corporation shuts down UPN and replaces it with The CW: 2017: CBS Corporation sells CBS Radio to Entercom (now Audacy) 2019: CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge as ViacomCBS: 2022 ...
CBS is swapping the stations and US$170 million in cash for 7.59 million shares of CBS common stock held by Liberty Media. On February 26, 2007, CBS began investing in Electric Sheep, which is a virtual world content developer.
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which held the namesake flagship channel CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (merged with The WB to form the CW, co-owned by Time Warner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV, Simon and ...
CBS Outdoor International – sold to Platinum Equity in 2013; CBS Outernet – renamed Outfront Media Outernet; CBS Radio – merged with Entercom (former CBS Corporation shareholders received a 72% stake in Entercom) List of broadcast stations owned by CBS Radio; Boston Bruins Radio; CBS Altitude Group; Eventful; New York Yankees Radio; New ...
15 Previously owned by CBS Corporation, and before 2019, half of the share was owned by Lionsgate. Formerly known as TVGN, TV Guide Network, and TV Guide Channel. 16 Established by Viacom's Showtime Networks in 1992 and later became part of CBS Corporation following Viacom's split in 2006.
[12] [13] In 1952, CBS formed CBS Television Film Sales, a division which handled syndication rights for CBS's library of network-owned television series. This division was renamed CBS Films in 1958, again renamed CBS Enterprises in January 1968, and finally renamed Viacom (an acronym of Video and Audio Communications) in 1970.
CBS Corporation retained the over-the-air broadcasting, television production, pay television subscription service, and publishing assets, which were previously owned by the first Viacom. The second Viacom was the world's ninth-largest media company in terms of revenue and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan , New York City .