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CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that is the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global.
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| Type | Radio and television network |
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| Country | United States |
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| Headquarters | CBS Building, Manhattan, New York City, New York |
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| Language(s) | English |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Global |
| Parent | CBS Entertainment Group |
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| Sister channels | List
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| History | |
| Founded | September 18, 1927 (95 years ago) (1927-09-18) |
| Launched |
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| Founder | Arthur Judson |
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| Website | cbs.com |
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| 1912 | Famous Players Film Company is founded by Adolph Zukor |
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| 1913 | Lasky Feature Play Company is founded by Jesse Lasky |
| 1914 | Paramount Pictures is founded as a film distributor by W. W. Hodkinson |
| 1916 | Famous Players & Lasky merge as Famous Players-Lasky and acquire Paramount. |
| 1920 | Group W forms with the launch of KDKA-AM |
| 1927 | CBS is founded; Famous Players–Lasky assumes Paramount name |
| 1929 | Paramount buys 49% of CBS |
| 1932 | Paramount sells back shares of CBS. |
| 1950 | Desilu is founded & CBS distributes its television programs |
| 1952 | CBS creates the CBS Television Film Sales division |
| 1958 | CBS Television Film Sales renamed to CBS Films |
| 1966 | Gulf+Western buys Paramount |
| 1968 | Gulf+Western acquires Desilu and renames it Paramount Television; CBS Films becomes CBS Enterprises |
| 1970 | CBS Enterprises renamed to Viacom |
| 1971 | Viacom is spun off from CBS as a separate company |
| 1985 | Viacom buys full ownership of Showtime & MTV Networks |
| 1986 | National Amusements buys Viacom |
| 1989 | Gulf+Western renamed to Paramount Communications |
| 1994 | Viacom acquires Paramount Communications |
| 1995 | Westinghouse buys CBS |
| 1997 | Westinghouse renamed to CBS Corporation |
| 2000 | Viacom buys CBS Corporation |
| 2001 | Viacom buys BET Networks |
| 2005 | Viacom splits into second CBS Corporation and Viacom |
| 2019 | CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge to form ViacomCBS |
| 2022 | ViacomCBS changes its name to Paramount Global |
Headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City, it has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and the headquarters of owner Paramount at One Astor Plaza (both also in that city) and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. The network is part of the "Big Three" television networks. It is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Network in reference to the company's trademark symbol which has been in use since 1951.[1] It has also been called the Tiffany Network which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenure of William S. Paley.[2][clarification needed] It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in the former Tiffany and Company Building in New York City in 1950.