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CBS All Access Bulks Up With Originals as It Prepares to Take on Hulu and Netflix

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During CBS' last earnings call in July, analysts who were expecting CBS Corp. CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves to do little more than brag about his network's big upfront gains [...]


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Blackout Has Negligible Impact on CBS Ratings

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While the four-day blackout of the CBS signal in select Time Warner Cable markets thus far has had a negligible impact on prime-time ratings, the broadcaster did see some shrinkage [...]

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Time Warner Cable Pulls the Plug on CBS

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CBS has gone dark in New York. In the latest development in the ongoing carriage dispute between CBS and the Time Warner Cable, the local affiliate went off the air [...]

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Marketing to Kids Is an Obstacle Course

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If you’re advertising in the $1 billion kids marketplace, you’ll need to accommodate a bit more in the way of oversight, both from traditional antagonists like watchdog groups and from [...]

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Summertime Blues: New Off-Season Broadcast Series Founder

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Like a Band-Aid floating in a public swimming pool, broadcast’s new summer series are turning out to be a total bummer.

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Shattered ‘Glass’: Poor Showing For ABC Reality Show

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In a nod to a rival network’s attempts to block the launch of The Glass House, ABC on Monday night introduced its new reality series as “the show they didn’t want [...]