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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) TV Network in USA

                                                            America's Most Watched Network

CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS)(name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System).
CBS started TV telecast from  July 1, 1941. CBS's first television broadcasts were experimental, often only for one hour a day, and reaching a limited area in and around New York City. By the fall of 1967, nearly all of CBS's TV programs were in color.
In 1949 CBS offered the first live television coverage of the proceedings of the UN Feneral Assembly
CBS was the top-rated network, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.CBS bumped from first place only by the rise of ABC in the mid-1970s.

CBS's most popular shows

M*A*S*H  is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS.The series premiered in the US on September 17, 1972, and ended February 28, 1983.
The final episode aired on February 28, 1983 and was 2½ hours long was viewed by nearly 106 million Americans (77% of viewership that night) which established it as the most watched episode in United States television history, a record which stood until the broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV in 2010, also on CBS.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show
is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.The program was a television breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as the central character: "As Mary Richards, a single woman in her thirties, Moore presented a character different from other single TV women of the time.It has also been cited as "one of the most acclaimed television programs ever produced" in US television history. It received high praise from critics, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row (1975–77)




All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years.


The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978
 



Barnaby Jones is a television detective series ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980 starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles


Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera and the show debuted in April 1978 as a five-part miniseries on the CBS network, and then was subsequently broadcast for thirteen seasons from April 2, 1978 to May 3, 1991


 The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera premiered on March 23, 1987 for CBS Daytime . Since its premiere the show has become the most-watched soap in the world and continues to hold on to the second-placed position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas.



CBS Game Shows
The Price Is Right is an American game show in which contestants compete to identify the pricing of merchandise to win cash and prizes.The original version of The Price Is Right aired from 1956 until 1965. The current version of the series premiered on September 4, 1972 on CBS, originally titled The New Price Is Right to distinguish itself from the original.


 Bob Parker hosted the show(1972-2007)
Drew Allison Carey hosted the show(2007 - present)
Let's Make a Deal is a television game show based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host.
 
 CBS Talkshows
The Early Show is morning news talk show broadcast by CBS live from 7 to 9 a.m.

 Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954. It is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television.

 

 The Talk show premiered on October 18, 2010 on CBS as a part of CBS Daytime. The show is similar to ABC's The View

 




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