CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc.
TypeRadio and television broadcaster
CountryUnited States
Broadcast areaWorldwide
Affiliates
HeadquartersCBS Broadcast Center, Manhattan, New York City, United States
Programming
LanguageEnglish (US)
Picture format1080i HDTV
Ownership
OwnerParamount Skydance
ParentCBS Entertainment Group
Key people
  • George Cheeks (President and CEO, CBS Entertainment Group)
  • Amy Reisenbach (President, CBS Entertainment)
  • Bari Weiss (Editor-in-chief, CBS News)
  • David Berson (President and CEO, CBS Sports)
Sister channels
History
FoundedJanuary 27, 1927 (1927-01-27)
LaunchedJuly 1, 1941 (1941-07-01)
Founder
Former names
  • United Independent Broadcasters, Inc. (1927)
  • Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (1927–28)
  • Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1928–74)
  • CBS, Inc. (1974–97)
Links
Websitecbs.com
Availability
Streaming media
Affiliated Streaming Service(s)Paramount+
Pluto TV
DirecTV StreamChannel 390 (CBS HD East)
Channel 391 (CBS HD West)
Service(s)DirecTV Stream, FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Paramount+, YouTube TV
Evolution of Paramount Skydance
1886Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
1912Famous Players Film Company is founded
1913Lasky Feature Play Company is founded
1914Paramount Pictures is founded
1916Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount
1927Famous Players–Lasky is renamed Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation; CBS is founded with investment from Columbia Records
1929Paramount acquires 49% of CBS
1930Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation is renamed Paramount Publix Corporation
1932Paramount sells back its shares of CBS
1934Gulf+Western is founded as the Michigan Bumper Corporation
1935Paramount Publix Corporation is renamed Paramount Pictures
1936National Amusements is founded as Northeast Theater Corporation
1938CBS acquires Columbia Records
1950Desilu is founded and CBS distributes its television programs
1952CBS creates the CBS Television Film Sales division
1958CBS Television Film Sales is renamed CBS Films
1966Gulf+Western acquires Paramount
1967Gulf+Western acquires Desilu and renames it Paramount Television (now CBS Studios)
1968CBS Films is renamed CBS Enterprises
1970CBS Enterprises is renamed Viacom
1971Viacom is spun off from CBS
1987National Amusements acquires Viacom
1988CBS sells Columbia Records to Sony
1989Gulf+Western is renamed Paramount Communications
1994Viacom acquires Paramount Communications
1995Paramount Television and United Television launch UPN; Westinghouse acquires CBS
1997Westinghouse is renamed CBS Corporation
2000Viacom acquires UPN and CBS Corporation
2005Viacom splits into the second CBS Corporation and Viacom
2006Skydance Media is founded as Skydance Productions; CBS Corporation shuts down UPN and replaces it with The CW
2009Paramount and Skydance enter an agreement to co-produce and co-finance films
2017CBS Corporation sells CBS Radio to Entercom (now Audacy)
2019CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merge as ViacomCBS
2022ViacomCBS is renamed Paramount Global
2025Skydance acquires National Amusements and merges with Paramount Global as Paramount Skydance
2026Paramount Skydance enters into a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, the Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network and the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Skydance. It is one of Paramount Skydance's three flagship subsidiaries, along with Paramount Pictures and MTV.

Founded in 1927, headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City and being part of the "Big Three" television networks, CBS has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and One Astor Plaza in New York City, and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. It is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, after the company's trademark symbol of an eye, which has been in use since October 20, 1951, and also the Tiffany Network, which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenure of William S. Paley (and 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).