| Curtis Media Acquisitions Complete CBS Sell-Off | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:11:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | CBS Radio has sold off the last of its stations that were put up for sale back in May. Curtis Media Group has acquired three News/Talk stations in Greensboro, NC (WSJS, WMFR and WSML) for a total of $8.38 milion. According to MarketWatch, the total sale of CBS stations in ten markets brought in $668 million to the company. "We are delighted to have this family of great News/Talk Stations join our group of North Carolina Stations. We feel that along with our existing operation at WZTK, News/Talk 101, and our presence in the State Capitol with WPTF, we will be able to offer the listeners in the Triad an even better list of choices in the News/Talk arena," stated Donald Curtis, President of Curtis Media Group. In May, CBS CEO Les Moonves announced that the company would sell 35 stations, primarily in small markets, allowing them to better focus on large market stations.... | |
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| | | CBS Newsman Ed Bradley Dies | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:11:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (AP) -- Ed Bradley, the award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced. Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris. Producer Don Hewitt, in his book "Minute by Minute," was quick to appreciate Bradley's work once he joined the "60 Minutes" crew. "He's so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he's on it that I wonder what took us so long," Hewitt wrote. Bradley's consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till.... | |
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| | | CBS report raises BP plant safety | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 11:42:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) -- Safety experts for oil major BP PLC warned their bosses of the potential for a "major site incident" 2 1/2 years before an explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 people, according to a broadcast report. CBS' "60 Minutes" also reported Sunday that the Texas City plant manager, Don Parus, told his bosses in the company's London headquarters that most workers at the refinery felt the plant was unsafe. According to CBS, one worker wrote, "This place is set up for a catastrophic failure." BP's top refinery executive, John Manzoni, has said under oath he didn't know of serious safety concerns until the explosion in March 2005. "They didn't do much," said Brent Coon, an attorney representing several victims suing BP.... | |
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| | | Longtime CBS newsman Christopher Glenn dies of cancer | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:09:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Christopher Glenn, a longtime CBS news correspondent, who anchored coverage of the space shuttle Challenger explosion and was the voice of the children's program "In the News," in 1970s and 80s, died Tuesday of liver cancer less than three weeks before his induction into the Radio Hall of Fame, the network said. Glenn, a Norwalk resident, died in Norwalk Hospital. He was 68. The award-winning newsman retired in February after 35 years with CBS and was to be enshrined on Nov. 4 into the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. He garnered many national awards, the latest in 2005 was the Radio Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow award for best newcast. His distinctive voice was familiar to those who remember the Emmy-award winning "In the News." The 2 1/2-minute feature on one topic was broadcast every half hour during Saturday childrens programming on CBS.... | |
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| | | CBS salutes "Unit" with additional order | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 3:11:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS has given a full-season pickup to "The Unit," the No. 1 new drama last season with more than 15 million viewers weekly. As a midseason entry earlier this year, "Unit" had received an initial order of 13 episodes for 2006/07; the pickup brings its complement to 22 episodes. In its most recent airing, the military drama averaged 13.2 million viewers. It stars Dennis Haysbert and Scott Foley. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter .... | |
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| | | Fool on the Street: CBS | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:15:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's a tumultuous time for mass media. CBS (NYSE: CBS - News) may have parted ways with its former parent, media giant Viacom (NYSE: VIA - News), but for the last several months, investors have been rather sweet on CBS stock, despite the challenges facing the company and its fellow media firms. What's the outlook for the company with an all-seeing eye for its logo? CBS President and CEO Les Moonves took on questions earlier this week at a Goldman Sachs conference. .... | |
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| | | Interview On CBS Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 5:19:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | QUESTION: And good morning again. On this day before the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we begin with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Madame Secretary, thank you so much for coming. SECRETARY RICE: Of course, Bob. QUESTION: Let me ask you this. After 9/11, we went to Iraq because we were told Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and because Iraq was a place that harbored terrorists. We've known for a long time now that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction and now in this bombshell report that the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee released Friday, we find that U.S. intelligence agencies concluded long ago that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. So it begs the question: Was this whole thing a colossal mistake? SECRETARY RICE: Well, first of all, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is very important and better for the world.... | |
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| | | CBS Slaps 'CSI' Staff's Wrists After Ruining The K-Fed Surprise | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:22:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | Realizing, like Survivor, that their own, aging CBS series could use a little free publicity by way of a headline-grabbing controversy, the producers of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation wisely opted out of launching a spinoff entitled CSI: Black People, and instead cast Vanilla Ice-channeling couchhusband Kevin Federline in a guest-starring role. (Plot details are under wraps, though we hear he plays a murder victim ironically strangled to death in his sleep with his own wife-beater by the wealthy dimwit he's been sponging off for years.) Arrangements had been made to give People the exclusive non-story, but a leak occurred, resulting in a stern missive from CBS' publicity department being issued to the entire "CSI Team." A Defamer operative forwarded the e-mail to us: Dear CSI Team -- In an ongoing effort to effectively publicize the show in the best way possible, we wanted to re-remind you of a press point.... | |
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| | | The CBS reality show "Survivor" sparked a lot of controversy this ... | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 5:45:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | The CBS reality show "Survivor" sparked a lot of controversy this week when it announced that the contestants on the latest installment of the show, which debuts Sept. 14, will be segregated by race. The 13th edition of the show will feature an Asian-American team, Hispanic team, African-American team and a white team. The show's host Jeff Probst has said that the idea came about after the show was criticized for not being ethnically diverse enough. Of course, there also are those declining ratings that have plagued the show in recent years. The finale of the most recent edition of the reality show, "Survivor Panama: Exile Island," pulled in the smallest finale audience in the show's history. 1. This movie studio announced last week that it was terminating its relationship with Tom Cruise due to his off-screen behavior.... | |
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| | | CBS to simulcast evening news online | | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:15:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | CBS said Thursday it will become the first network to simulcast its evening news broadcast online, starting on the night of Katie Couric's debut as anchor Sept. 5.All of the broadcast networks have aggressively pushed onto the Web over the past two years to interest more people in what they do, particularly at a time the audience for their evening newscasts is growing smaller and older.ABC streams a "World News" unique to the Internet audience in the midafternoon. NBC's Brian Williams contributes to both a video and written Web log during the day. However, NBC doesn't make a replay of "Nightly News" available until 10:30 p.m., after it is shown on television throughout the country.The concern among network affiliates that Web simulcasts would slice into their TV audiences -- making their advertising time less valuable -- has been a barrier to TV networks doing this.But CBS News President Sean McManus said the network was able to reach a deal with its affiliates by arguing that the programs will reach a different audience online.... | |
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