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Upon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, now WCBS-TV) in 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell (journalist).
In the fall of 1934, CBS launched an independent news division, shaped in its first years by Paley's vice-president, former New York Times columnist Ed Klauber, and news director Paul White. Since there was no blueprint or precedent for real-time news coverage, early efforts of the new division used the shortwave link-up CBS had been using for ...
The Evening Stars: The Making of the Network News Anchor. New York City: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-31714-9. William Paley (1979). As It Happened: A Memoir. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-14639-6. Michael J. Robinson & Margaret Sheehan (1983). Over the Wire and On TV: CBS and the UPI in Campaign '80. New York City: Russell Sage ...
The first of these services, CBSN New York, launched on December 13, 2018, with Los Angeles following in June 2019. [53] Eleven other markets launched, most recently CBS News Miami in January 2022. [54] CBS and Viacom then merged for the second time, forming ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), on December 4, 2019. [55]
It was the world's eighth largest entertainment company in terms of revenue and headquartered at the CBS Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [ 4 ] CBS Corporation announced on August 13, 2019, that it would merge with Viacom for the second time to form ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global ). [ 5 ]
On December 31, 2005, American mass media company Viacom split into two companies: the second CBS Corporation, its successor (the first being a short lived rename of Westinghouse Electric) which held the namesake flagship channel CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports, Showtime Networks, UPN (merged with The WB to form the CW, co-owned by Time Warner), Smithsonian Channel, Channel 10, PopTV, Simon and ...
Paramount Pictures, CBS, and Viacom each had a history of being associated with one another through a series of various corporate mergers and splits. [10] Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company. [11]
WCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS New York, is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York –licensed independent station WLNY-TV (channel 55).