{"id":20208,"date":"2014-10-05T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T23:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:24:11","slug":"cbs-corp-tv-broadcast-cable-properties-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/2014\/10\/05\/cbs-corp-tv-broadcast-cable-properties-only\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Corp. (TV broadcast & cable properties only)"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Mike Liebenson<\/pre>\n
\"CBS<\/a>
[1]<\/a> CBS \u00a0Logo<\/p><\/div>\n
CBS Headquarters
\n51 W. 52nd Street
\nNew York, NY 10019-6188
\n1-212-975-4321 [1.5]<\/a><\/p>\n
KEY EXECUTIVES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\"CBS<\/a>
[2] <\/a>Leslie Moonves- President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation<\/p><\/div>
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[3]<\/a> Sumner M Redstone- Executive Chairman<\/p><\/div>
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[4] <\/a>Joseph Ianniello- Chief Operating Officer<\/p><\/div>
\"Anthony<\/a>
[5]<\/a> Anthony G. Ambrosio, Senior Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, CBS Corporation.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
OVERVIEW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
CBS Corporation<\/a> is an industry-leading mass media company that creates and distributes content across a multiple platforms to audiences worldwide. Spanning virtually every field of media and entertainment, CBS\u2019s operations include cable, film, radio, publishing, local TV, and interactive\/social media. [6]<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0Network Portfolio<\/span><\/p>\n
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[7] <\/a>All of CBS’s Assets<\/p><\/div>\n
CBS is home to one of the world\u2019s largest libraries of media content, making it one of the most recognized brands in business. Specific to television, CBS\u2019s businesses include CBS Television Network<\/a>, The CW<\/a>, Showtime Networks<\/a>, TVGN<\/a>, CBS Sports Network<\/a>, Smithsonian Networks<\/a>, CBS Television Studios<\/a>, and CBS Television Stations<\/a>\u00a0[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u00a0CBS CURRENT FALL SEASON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\"One<\/a>
[8]<\/a> One of the Thursday Night Football games featuring San Diego at Denver.<\/p><\/div>\n
The 2015 season has been kind to \u201cThe Big Eye,\u201d with the network averaging 12.2 million viewers daily. This puts the network ahead of every other network, with NBC <\/a>trailing behind at 9.8 million\u00a0[9]<\/a>. Part of this is due to their addition of Thursday Night Football<\/em><\/a> to their fall line-up. Each week their installment of football, which replaced conventional series for the first two months of the season, topped Thursday nights for total viewership. The final game aired earned a 13.2 rating and 23 percent share [10]<\/a>. That’s slightly less than the all-time high overnight household rating of 13.7 when the season opened on September 11. While Thursday Night Football<\/em><\/a> has done well, analysts projected it to do even better. Yesterday RBC Capital Markets<\/a>\u2019 David Bank dropped\u00a0his earnings forecast for CBS<\/a> by 27 cents to $3.07 because of the ratings letdown\u00a0[8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Newcomers<\/span><\/p>\n
Among CBS<\/a>\u2019s five other newcomers for the 2014-2015 season, only one was a half-hour sitcom. The Mccarthys<\/em><\/a>, which debuted 1.7\/5 in the 18-49 share and 8.08 total million viewers [12]<\/a>, but has fallen to 1.4 and 6.53 total million viewers [13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n