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33 unusual facts about CBS


1963 NFL season

No NFL games were telecast, since on the afternoon of the 22nd, just after the president had been pronounced dead, CBS President Frank Stanton ordered that all regular programming be pre-empted until after Mr. Kennedy was buried.

Adam Stefan Sapieha

In the 2005 CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, Archbishop Sapieha was portrayed by American actor James Cromwell.

Alfred H. Grebe

) He set up a broadcasting company called the "Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation" (changing WAHG to WABC on November 1, 1926) which operated his stations until he sold them to CBS in January 1929.

Avery Fisher Hall

The program concentrated on concert hall acoustics, and, like the opening night concert, was shown over the CBS television network.

Bill Stegmeyer

He arranged for WXYZ, a Detroit radio station, from 1948 to 1950, and following this arranged for Your Hit Parade (1950-58) and CBS (early 1960s).

Bob Latford

From 1979–2000, Latford was the statistician for all NASCAR broadcasts on CBS.

Bussum

Bussum has 32.483 inhabitants (as of 1 April 2011, source: CBS) residing on an area of only 8 km².

CBS Theatrical Films

CBS Theatrical Films was the film production branch of the U.S. television network, CBS, in the 1980s.

Chava Alberstein

After a guest appearance on Moadon Hazemer, recorded on Kibbutz Beit Alfa, she signed a recording contract with CBS.

Dallas Sportatorium

From 1948 until 1966, the Sportatorium was also the site of the Big D Jamboree, a weekly country music showcase similar in format to the Grand Ole Opry and Louisiana Hayride; portions of the Jamboree were broadcast nationally on the CBS Radio Network.

E. Power Biggs

Between 1942 and 1958, he also hosted a weekly radio program of organ music (carried throughout the United States on the CBS Radio Network) that introduced audiences to the pipe organ and its literature.

Farrell, Pennsylvania

Because of Farrell's location near the Pennsylvania/Ohio border, it is served by WKBN-TV (CBS), WFMJ-TV (NBC), WYTV (ABC), WYFX-LD (Fox) and WBCB (CW), all broadcast from nearby Youngstown, OH.

Fishing Creek, Maryland

Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007 CBS reality television series Pirate Master.

Ford EcoBoost 300

The 1995 event was the first race held at the newly opened Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsport Complex, and was covered by CBS from 1995–97.

Fort Pitt Tunnel

The view was also the inspiration for the news open on CBS affiliate KDKA-TV for several years in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ida Lou Anderson

"This is London" became a phrase familiar to the world as Murrow broadcast on CBS during the Nazi blitzkrieg of London during the early days of World War II.

One of Anderson's earliest and most impressive students was Edward R. Murrow who went on to a legendary broadcasting career at CBS.

Jean Sablon

That same year, he went to the United States, where he sang on live radio broadcasts for CBS and made several records in the English language.

Lavern Roach

Only a small audience of 1,832 waded through sleet and snow to see the middleweight battle in the ancient midtown club, but hundreds of thousands of shocked television viewers saw the tragic ending of the fight over the CBS network telecast.

Mark Twain Tonight

He won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for that appearance and an Emmy Award nomination for the 1967 television broadcast (which was produced by David Susskind) on CBS.

Marlo Lewis

Marlo Lewis (1916 – June 1993) was an American executive producer for variety and comedy shows for CBS and is well known for co-producing the famous Ed Sullivan Show.

Mel Ferber

Subsequently, he earned Emmy nominations for his work as executive producer and creator of Good Morning America and executive producer of CBS' Calendar.

Overseas Highway

One of animated television's Wacky Races was The Overseas Hi-Way Race, which first aired on December 28, 1968, on CBS, covering the entire actual route from Key Largo to Key West.

Sam K. Harrison

Harrison was the subject of a radio play entitled "The Empty Sleeve" by Irve Tunick which aired on an hour long nationwide broadcast in August 14, 1951 on the CBS network.

Sparkling Cyanide

In 1983, CBS adapted the book for television, directed by Robert Michael Lewis, set in the modern day and starring Anthony Andrews as the central character, Tony Browne.

Stephen Strimpell

His most famous film role may have been in the 1967 CBS comedy series Mister Terrific, in which he played Stanley Beamish, an innocent gas station attendant, who morphed into the title character, a superhero with an ability to fly.

Strassner Editing Systems

At the time Mr. Strassner wrote the software, he was a working editor in Hollywood for shows like Entertainment Tonight and Real People, and companies like Paramount Pictures, CBS, NBC and Smith-Hemion.

The Barclays

Since the move to late August, the Barclays has traditionally closed CBS Sports' PGA Tour television schedule, due to the network's commitment to airing SEC College and NFL football, as well as the U.S. Open tennis tournament, during the fall months.

The Groop

The Groop arrived in the UK as Paul Jones' cover of "When I Was Six Years Old" was released and they secured a deal with CBS in England, then toured there and in Germany.

Transradio Press Service

After leaving CBS in 1934 Herbert Moore had an idea, why not set up a service to provide copy for radio news broadcasts.

Untererthal

The American television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971), featured a fictional Stalag 13, said to be near Hammelburg, possibly in or near Untererthal.

We're Going to Make you a Star

In this book she discusses the CBS failure and reflects on her adolescence and how it, among other things, led to her failure as a television news anchor.

William Schuman

William Schuman appeared as the opening guest on the CBS game show, What's My Line? on September 30, 1962 (episode No. 632).


8th Primetime Emmy Awards

John Monks, for The 20th Century Fox Hour, (Episode: "Miracle on 34th Street"), (CBS)

Abdul Rahman Yasin

With Yasin reportedly being held as a prisoner in Hussein's Iraq, Lesley Stahl of CBS interviewed him there for a segment on 60 Minutes on May 23, 2002 (see below).

AJ Tesler

He has also line produced Kevin Pollak's directorial debut, Vamped Out and served as a producer for VH1's Dance Cam Slam and writer/producer for CBS' Excused.

Anatomy of Greed

In 2003, CBS aired a television movie based on Cruver's book entitled The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron starring Brian Dennehy, Christian Kane and Mike Farrell, directed by Penelope Spheeris, which was a ratings hit for the network.

Ashley Webster

Webster also helped launch the news department of NBC affiliate WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1996 as the station's first anchor and news director, and also anchored at CBS affiliate KSWT-TV in Yuma, Arizona.

Bill Daily

After Richard Dawson's departure, Daily was a semi-regular for the final three years of the show's CBS and syndicated run.

Brad Johansen

Brad Johansen is the former radio play-by-play announcer for the Cincinnati Bengals, He is the current play-by-play TV announcer for Bengals preseason games along with, being the current play-by-play announcer for the Xavier University men's basketball telecasts and College Football on CBS Sports Network.

Brenda Barrett

However, a mere two weeks later, such "talks" were muted when Marcil landed the recurring role as Kim Marcus on the CBS primetime series Without a Trace.

Brian Bedford

Bedford appeared with James Garner in the 1966 film Grand Prix, and in 1967 he was a regular on the short-lived CBS television series Coronet Blue.

Brian Writes a Bestseller

It was watched by 6.59 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with the 38th Annual American Music Awards on ABC, Undercover Boss on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC.

Carol Saline

Her national television appearances include Oprah, Donahue, Larry King Live, American Journal, Inside Edition, CBS Good Morning, The Weekend Today Show and Good Morning America.

Carter DeHaven

In the 1959-1960 season, Carter DeHaven appeared four times in various roles and Gloria DeHaven once, as Rosemary Blaker in the episode "Love Affair", on the CBS western television series, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant.

Charlie Dimmock

She has also appeared on American television, presenting a gardening slot on The Early Show on CBS.

Douglas Edwards

CBS News historian Gary Paul Gates, in Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News, recorded a conversation between veteran CBS and NBC news executives musing over the shift from Edwards and Swayze to the Huntley-Brinkley and Cronkite newscasts, and Edwards's continuation at CBS compared to Swayze's later familiarity as a pitchman for Timex, after both men had fallen from their formerly lofty television perches.

Eduard Franz

In 1961, Franz and Scott Marlowe guest starred in the episode "The Duke of Texas" of CBS's western series Have Gun - Will Travel, with Richard Boone, as two Austrians involved in intrigue in the days of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

Erin Moriarty

In 1979-1980, Moriarty worked as a reporter for a Columbus-based NBC affiliate WCMH-TV, in 1980-1982 for the Baltimore-based CBS affiliate WJZ-TV and in 1982-1983, for CBS affiliate WJKW-TV in Cleveland.

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

James F. Reda

Reda regularly appears on business news segments and has been featured on Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox Business News, BBC World Radio Service, ABC News, Bloomberg TV, and the CBS Early Show.

Jeff Mercel

His work has appeared in numerous television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, and Showtime’s This American Life.

Jennifer Munson Donovan

Jennifer Louise Donovan (née Munson; previously Kasnoff) was a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.

Joan Peters

Joan Peters (born 1938) is a former CBS news producer of documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her controversial book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984, in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous to the area and therefore do not have claims to territory.

Joe Leahy

Upon leaving the service in 1945 he came to New York and signed with CBS as a staff conductor-arranger, doing script-show music, background music for radio dramas, and conducting the Skitch Henderson orchestra.

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

Keegan Allen

He also made an appearance in CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2011.

KFTA-TV

Much of the far northern part of the market got a better signal from KSNF in Joplin, Missouri (which, incidentally, switched from CBS to NBC in the same year as channel 24).

Lucinda Walsh

Lucinda Walsh (née Mary Ellen Walters; formerly Guest, Esteban, Dixon, Stenbeck and Wheatley) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.

Marshall Thompson

He co-starred with Annie Fargé in the 33-episode CBS sitcom Angel (1960–1961) about an American architect with a charming but scatterbrained French wife, who often got into zany, Lucy Ricardo-esque situations, caused in part by her lack of English; the show was canceled after 33 episodes due to low ratings, despite critical acclaim for French-born newcomer Annie Fargé.

Mercury Marquis

Metallic gold examples of the 1969 and 1970 model Marquis convertibles (very low production) were used for the final two seasons of the Green Acres TV series; these replaced the 1965-1967 Continental convertibles that were used earlier in the run of the CBS comedy series.

Moses Uvere

On the first of February 2013, CBS 11 This Morning (KTVT) named Uvere one of their "Texans with Character".

New Vision Television

On August 1, 2006, New Vision announced an agreement to acquire CBS affiliates WIAT in Birmingham, Alabama and KIMT in Mason City, Iowa from Media General for $35 million.

Nicole Brewer

Before joining CBS 3, Brewer had been a feature reporter and producer for the nightly news magazine Tempo at WLVT-TV, the PBS station in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Our Secret Weapon

CBS had begun a shortwave listening program in September 1939, on an experimental basis, at the National Lawn Tennis Championships at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York.

Peggy Wood

When General Foods cancelled the program, there was so much protest that CBS brought it back on Sunday afternoon, this time as a filmed series.

Peter Knecht

Knecht has appeared as a television analyst and consultant on criminal justice for major news outlets, including national CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX broadcasts, and locally for KCAL-TV-Channel 9 and KCOP-TV-Channel 13.

Phil Graham

The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Richmond Barracks

At the same time as the transfer of the barracks to the corporation, Christian Brothers purchased three of the buildings and turned two of them into class rooms and called it "St Michaels CBS", a national school opening in 1929.

Sam Rolfe

Samuel Harris Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the well-remembered television series Have Gun Will Travel, first appearing on CBS, as well as his work on the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour, both on NBC.

Someone Who's Cool

The song was also used as the theme song to the short-lived CBS music industry comedy Love Monkey.

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

The Courtship of Betty's Father

Despite a strong showing from CBS' Survivor: Tocantins — The Brazilian Highlands, the episode placed second with a 5.0/8 overall and a 2.3 among 18-49s, with 7.44 million viewers tuning in.

The New Adventures of Gilligan

It was based on the 1964–1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation using her image), and Dawn Wells, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter).

The Scope

Each month 23,000 copies are distributed across the St. John's metropolitan area (including Torbay, Mount Pearl, CBS, Paradise, and Portugal Cove-St. Philips).

The Sugar Mix Album

The Sugar Mix Album is the second remix album by Spanish duo Azúcar Moreno, released on CBS-Epic in late 1990.

Timeline of San Bernardino, California history

The Miss USA Pageant is held in San Bernardino on July 25, and televised on CBS.

WCPN

She interviewed people involved in stage, screen and television careers, such as actor Greg Morris of CBS-TV's Mission: Impossible series.

WKOB-LD

CBS, which ultimately selected Channel 33 for their post-transition operations, did not object and signed a Waiver Of Consent, ultimately accepting whatever interference a WKOB-LP operation over Channel 2 would have presented to WCBS-TV.

WMNS-LP

However, after CBS programming moved from WVXF to the cable-only channel TV2, WMNS-LP now provides over-the-air coverage for TV2.

WRID-LP

W48BI was one of two possible candidates for the network affiliate which declined the offer or launch a brand new station on channel 19 that later became an outlet for Charlottesville's CBS affiliate WCAV in 2004.

Ziad Asali

He has provided television commentary and interviews for CNN, CBS, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America and numerous syndicated cable programs.