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Date "CBS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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What became CBS was founded as The "Columbia Broadcasting System" in 1927 as a joint venture by Columbia Records and New York City talent agent Arthur Judson. It originally went on the air on September 18 1927 as The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System with 47 radio stations. This radio network lost money in its first year, and on January 18 1929 Columbia Records sold out its interests in the radio network to a group of private investors for US$400,000, headed by William S. Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer. The radio network was renamed The Columbia Broadcasting System. For the next nine years Columbia Records and CBS were independent unrelated companies.
This third radio network soon had more affiliates than either of the NBC networks, though the signals were weaker than NBC Red. (The NBC Red and CBS radio networks are now both distributed by Westwood One, a unit of Infinity Broadcasting, owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS Television. However, the CBS Radio Network's news unit -- the home of the top-of-the-hour newscasts and the "Weekend Roundup" -- is still directly supervised by CBS itself.)
Founder Paley saw an opportunity to win audiences through news programming, and spent substantial amounts of money to achieve dominance in that area. He hired Edward R. Murrow as "Director of Talks" as part of this effort. Together with William L. Shirer, Murrow practically invented broadcast journalism as we know it today.
In 1938 radio was a major force in entertainment while the record industry was still in the doldrums from the Great Depression, and CBS purchased its former parent company Columbia Records.
CBS first broadcast television in 1939, with 1 hour of programing per day in New York City. CBS made the first color broadcasts the following year, but using technology incompatable with existing black-and-white television which would be rejected by the FCC a few years later in favor of competing a color television standard developed by RCA. Television would remain a minor part of CBS until after World War II.
Since the outset of the television era, its logo has been an unwinking eye. (Elements of the CBS eye logo later inspired the logo for Lew Grade's British television company, ATV.) From the 1940s until the 1970s, CBS was considered the most prestigious of the three major television networks and as a result was known as the Tiffany network. CBS's dominance was broken in the 1970s by ABC, although CBS retook the top ratings spot from 1979 to 1984 and again during periods in the early 1990s and 2000s.
In 1988, CBS sold the CBS Records Group (including the venerable Columbia label) to Sony, which renamed the group Sony Music Entertainment. The company dropped "Columbia" from its legal corporate name, which was shortened to "CBS Inc."
In 2001, CBS had a major falling out with one of its news personnel who alleged a pattern of bias in reporting (see Bias).
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CBS | English | Chronic Brain Syndrome | N/A |
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Crosswords: CBS |
| Specialty definitions using "CBS": Landspout. (references) |
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Clever | What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song music. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1973) CBS Children's Film Festival (1967) The CBS Morning News (1963) CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962) WPRI CBS 12 News at 5 (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Composite of two photographs of Ezra Stone at CBS microphone. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Harold L. Ickes, standing, half-length portrait, facing left; in Chicago making "quarantine" speech into CBS microphones, with Franklin D. Roosevelt seated behind him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Introducing Miss Christopher Welles / CBS photo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Behind the camera during filming at a CBS news desk, map of New England in background] / World Journal Tribune p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by James Kavallines.. |
 | Members of the New York City Ballet portray Noah, his sons and their wives in the world premier of Igor Stravinsky's dance drama, "Noah and the flood" [...] on the CBS Television Network. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Edward G. Robinson and Beatrice Straight appearing in the CBS Playhouse 90 production of "Shadows Tremble". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thomas Gomez as Malenkov and E.G. Marshall as Beria, two of the conspirators in "The Plot to Kill Stalin," on CBS Playhouse 90. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Seale / Brodie '69 CBS. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. CBS station in Wheaton I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Spain | Among broadcast media, CBS, ABC and CNN are all represented by stringers; the AP bureau includes the television operation APTN. (references) |
Nigeria | In addition, there are 1,014 community banks (CBs). Community banks were first established in 1990, rose sharply to 66 in 1991, 879 in 1993 and peaked at 1,368 in 1996. By mid-2001, the number of community banks had fallen to 1,052. The main objectives in setting up the CBs included the mobilization of rural savings, promotion of rural development and the enhancement of micro enterprises, especially, in the rural areas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Dan Rather | This is CBS News continuing live coverage of the apparent terrorist attacks today here in New York City and in Washington, D.C. |
Don Hewitt | Well, I still intend to die at my desk. I never said where that desk was. I would like it to be at CBS. I think it will be at CBS. If it's somewhere else, it will make me very unhappy, and I would like to believe it will make them very unhappy. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number. |
Walter Cronkite | I did. We had one, unfortunately, at CBS many years ago, who worked in the near Middle East and Greece, in that area, Turkey and so forth. And it turned out later that he confessed that he had been working for the government as a spy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CBS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.12% of the time. "CBS" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 87.12% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Noun (plural) | 11.66% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | CBS Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "CBS": CBS DRX cycle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CBS": Cbs-chongjin. | |
Ending with "CBS": pre-cbs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cbs | 11,317 | 2 cbs | 144 |
cbs sportsline | 7,796 | cbs television | 139 |
cbs news | 4,531 | cbs news.com | 134 |
cbs sportsline.com | 3,901 | cbs morning show | 130 |
cbs sports | 2,571 | cbs morning sunday | 117 |
cbs marketwatch | 2,508 | cbs sports.com | 111 |
cbs daytime | 1,647 | cbs the young and the restless | 103 |
cbs soap | 963 | cbs market | 102 |
cbs big brother | 328 | bold and beautiful cbs | 100 |
cbs sport | 308 | cbs marketwatch.com | 100 |
cbs market watch | 306 | cbs sports line | 93 |
survivor cbs | 235 | cbs radio | 91 |
cbs soap opera | 227 | 11 cbs | 87 |
4 big brother cbs | 210 | chicago cbs | 86 |
cbs tv | 178 | cbs 60 minutes | 77 |
cbs home | 178 | cbs real estate | 74 |
cbs early show | 172 | cbs soaps.com | 71 |
cbs sportline | 164 | cbs daytime soap | 71 |
cbs jag | 164 | cbs evening news | 64 |
amazing cbs race | 159 | cbs.com daytime | 63 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | ciclo de recepción discontinua del servicio de difusión celular (CBS DRX cycle, cell broadcast service discontinuous reception cycle), ciclo CBS DRX (CBS DRX cycle, cell broadcast service discontinuous reception cycle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-s" | |
+1 letter: cabs, cobs, cubs, scab. | |
+2 letters: backs, basic, becks, bices, blocs, bocks, bucks, carbs, chubs, clubs, cobbs, combs, crabs, cribs, cubes, curbs, scabs, scrub, scuba. | |
+3 letters: abacas, abacus, baches, bacons, bancos, basics, becaps, biceps, binocs, bisect, blacks, blocks, bocces, boccis, boches, borsch, braces, brachs, bracts, bricks, brocks, broncs, buckos, buncos, bustic, cabals, cabers, cabins, cables, cabobs, carbos, carobs, casaba, casbah, cebids, ceibas, celebs, chimbs, cibols, climbs, cobias, cobles, cobras, combes, combos, coombs, crumbs, cubebs, cubers, cubics, cubism, cubist, cubits, ibices, rebecs, sacbut, scabby, scarab, scribe, scrubs, scubas, sorbic, xebecs, zebecs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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