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CBS Corp. (CBS) is in the Media Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $14.0B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $1.2B
- Market Cap
- Aug 22 2008
- $10.4B
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Digital Age Savvy: Brand for the Buck
Diane Mermigas submits: Forget the Olympic ratings; we knew they would be through the roof. One of the goals of NBC Universal's GE Olympics was reestablishing its brand in a global media world in which fickle consumers pass click-quick judgment on content and multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns based on impulse and...
NBC Beijing '08 Online Metrics: High Viewership, Little Revenue
J.P. Hannan submits: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that NBC's (NYSE: GE) decision to limit the amount of footage from the recent Olympic Games it showed on its websites significantly impacted their online revenues for the games. According to research firm eMarketer, Inc., the network's efforts only brought in...
ESPN Will Pay $2.25 Billion For Some SEC Rights: Report
As a former card-carrying member of the SEC (woof, woof, woof for anyone who cares), I can only look at these numbers in awe ... ESPN (NYSE: DIS) will announce later today a major deal for the SEC TV rights not held by CBS (NYSE: CBS), according to...
CBS Scores Olympic MBA Keeth Smart
CBS Scores Olympic MBA Keeth Smartoff topic questionMichael,Will Jenna Miller be returning to this blog?RE: CBS Scores Olympic MBA Keeth SmartSadly, no.
This Mobile Life: Roeding's World Travels: South Africa
Our dear friend Cyriac Roeding, the former EVP of mobile at CBS (NYSE: CBS), is on a world tour of about 10 countries in seven weeks. After leaving CBS earlier this year, he is on to the next new thing, and for inspiration-- and to unwind-- and at our...
TV Networks Reach a Fork in the Digital Road
J.P. Hannan submits: Last week, Bloomberg reported that "Walt Disney Co. DIS, the second-largest U.S. media company, may sell its 10 ABC television stations, fetching as much as $4.8 billion, said David Miller, an analyst at Caris & Co. who has covered the company since 2000." This was pure...
CBS Scores Olympic MBA Keeth Smart
Tip o' the hat to Columbia Business School's Public Offering Post, which last week published an interview with U.S. Olympic silver medalist, Keeth Smart. Smart brought home the silver in saber fencing, one of the fastest and most intellectually demanding sports. (Imagine playing chess. Now imagine...
ESPN Wants U.S. Rights For 2014, 2016 Olympics; Would Air More Live; Tape Delays 'Not Our Culture'
The cauldron for the 2008 Olympics is still burning in Beijing and NBC has the next two locked in already but ESPN's (NYSE: DIS) John Skipper is thinking ahead—and making promises that sound pretty good to people frustrated by the time-delayed broadcasts. Skipper tells Richard Sandomir the Disney sports...
TidalTV and AFT to broadcast Spanish news online
Broadband video service TidalTV is partnering with news agency Agence France Presse AFP to broadcast an online Spanish news channel in the US. TidalTV claims it will be the first US web company to establish an online news channel aimed...
Mobile Ad Firm Rhythm New Media Pulls Out of UK
Heavily-backed mobile advertising firm Rhythm NewMedia, based in Mountain View, CA, has pulled out of UK, and closed its offices there, according to NMA, citing sources. The pull out is surprising considering the company is UK's largest supplier of pre-roll mobile video advertising and handles ad sales for operators...
Fox News Gets Closer To Facebook; ABC News Pulls Plug On Politics App
As Fox News preps an updated version of its Facebook page, NYT wonders why the cable channel isn't turning to its News Corp (NYSE: NWS). sibling, MySpace. It's not because of rival MSNBC's relationship with Fox Interactive social net, Joel Cheatwood, SVP, development at Fox News, responds that it's...
CBS to broadcast live online coverage of presidential conventions
CBS News and CNET are set to broadcast live online coverage of the US Republican and Democratic presidential conventions later this month. Following the CBS Evening News' nightly broadcast, CBSNews.com and CNETTV.com will broadcast the new online programme live starting at 11pm EST. Katie Couric, CBS News anchor, will...
Looking Inside the New Ben Graham ETN Baskets
Rick Konrad submits: Exchange traded notes [ETN] are a fairly new investment product that share some characteristics of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. They are simply direct debt obligations issued by a bank or investment firm rather than an interest in a pool of securities that define an ETF.A bank...
Olympics Sports News WAP Review: ESPN Gets Gold; Silver For Fox Sports; NBC And CBS Tie For Bronze
In our second of a series first is here of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites – ESPN (NYSE: DIS), NBC Sports, CBS (NYSE: CBS) Sports and Fox Sports – to see which is providing the best...
Broadband Content Bits: Katie Couric; MRC-MommyCast; Metacafe; Comcast-Metro; Entourage-iTunes
-- Katie Couric anchoring *CBS* web specials: Katie Couric will anchor live web exclusives from the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, scheduled to air right after the primetime coverage she will anchor on CBS (NYSE: CBS). The 15-to-30 minute webcasts for CBSNews.com and CNET.com will feature a behind-the-scenes...
CNET: We're Gettin' It Done, Under CBS
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), the don't-call-us-CNET (NSDQ: CNET), has reported some Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) numbers on its first month under the CBS brand after the integration of CBS Interactive and CNET Networks, and at least on the traffic side, all this integration and TV-and-radio callout seems to be helping:--...
CBS Sports Mobile Launches Mobile App, New WAP Site Coming Soon
As Football season approaches, CBS Sports Mobile is trying to grab more of that low-hanging fruit – sports and anything related to sports – by launching a new mobile application on AT&T's deck, revamping its WAP site and refreshing its alert offerings. The $5 a month CBS (NYSE: CBS)...
Broadband Content Bits: Whedon's Sing-Along; Hulu HD; Bebo Series; 'Scary City'; 'Tropic Thunder'
-- Joss Whedon's 'Sing-Along' resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don't, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedon's web series, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, is now available in its entirety on Hulu for four months. A few weeks ago Whedon released the...
Finding Value in the P/B Ratio
Dividends4Life submits: These are the days that value and dividend investors long for. There have been times in the past where I struggled to find stocks worthy of purchasing. Now, the challenge is to pick the best available stocks that will maximize my chances of future...
Cablevision Gets a Win in Its Legal Struggle Over DVR Rights
Julia Boorstin submits: Monday, a federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling that prohibited Cablevision CVC from offering "Network DVRs". This technology allows cable customers to time shift programs and skip ads without a set top box, eventually allowing pretty much anyone with cable to easily and less...
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CBS is a mass media company. Co.'s Television segment consists of CBS Television, comprised of several entities including, the CBS® Television Network, its 30 owned broadcast television stations, CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Television Distribution, as well as its television production and syndication operations. Co.'s Radio segment owns and operates 140 radio stations in 30 U.S. markets through CBS Radio®. The outdoor segment displays advertising on media, while its Publishing segment consists of Simon & Schuster, which publishes and distributes consumer books under imprints such as Simon & Schuster®, Pocket Books®, Scribner® and Free Press®.
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Board of Directors
Ms. Shari Redstone
Vice-Chairwoman
Ms. Linda M. Griego
Ms. Arnold Kopelson
Mr. Leslie Moonves
Mr. Doug Morris
Mr. Frederic V. Salerno
Mr. Sumner M. Redstone
Mr. David R. Andelman
Mr. Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Mr. William S. Cohen
Mr. Gary L. Countryman
Mr. Charles K. Gifford
Mr. Leonard Goldberg
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