CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
A 1951 advertisement for the CBS Television Network introduced the Eye logo.
Television in the United States
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4%, in the 1996–1997 season. In 1948, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one television; in 1955, 75 percent did. In 1992, 60 percent of all U.S. households had cable television subscriptions.
The bottom product is a set-top box, an electronic device which cable subscribers use to connect the cable signal to their television set
Jon Stewart (right) hosting an episode of The Daily Show in 2010 with Admiral Michael Mullen
Matthew Weiner and the cast of Mad Men at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards
Satellite TV receiver dishes
