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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.

Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead. I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

We value the loyalty this bowl has shown us. In this case, we know what we have in this bowl game and we like that. We know it's going to be there over a long period of time. We also like that the bowl works really well on TV. It looks great. The stadium, the surroundings, the weather is always pretty good ... All those things together make it a really good fit for CBS Sports.

We are looking forward to being part of a network driven by the exceptional talents at both CBS and Warner Brothers Entertainment.

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

Send your cards and letters to Jim Ryan, care of CBS 2.

She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an evening network newscast is so long overdue that it can hardly be regarded as making a powerful statement. ... CBS had a chance to revolutionize the evening news by totally remaking the show. Instead, they are putting a new person into an old, boring format.

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

My 40 years with CBS News have been a fascinating voyage of discovery. Thirty-seven years with '60 Minutes' have given me the chance to travel the globe, meet and report on world issues, and broadcast what I've learned to an audience at home that had long trusted CBS News reporters like Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid.

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different. Katie is a superb person, and she's a great pro. I'll be rooting for her, and I wish her well.

No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different.

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

NBC doesn't have the big shows now. We do. ABC does. CBS does. We weren't intimidated. NBC is vulnerable.

If we don't do our jobs right, we could be damaging the CBS News brand. We want to make sure that it's as good as anything else CBS News would put out there.

I announced last year that I won't be touring again. But CBS has given me the opportunity to take my music to the people in a new way, to have the fun of performing live, and to do it in such a way that I don't have to be away from home for long periods of time. It's going to be fun.

CBS was the only broadcast network to enjoy increased ratings across the board. We could not have enjoyed a more successful sweeps." ()

CBS Vision is a strategic way for us to get ahead of all the new technologies and challenges that are facing our industry, and to share our knowledge and these opportunities with our clients and partners.

CBS SportsLine.com and NFL.com subscribers will love this mobile application. Fantasy Football Companion gives team owners the ability to participate in their fantasy football leagues whenever and wherever the need or mood strikes. Whether it's a casual check of their fantasy teams' scoring, or the need to make roster changes in response to breaking news, the Fantasy Football Companion fulfills a real need for our dedicated fantasy football audience. We are pleased that MFORMA has built the Fantasy Football Companion to truly integrate with the online version and with a user interface that is very easy to learn and use. It is a perfect application for mobile and a necessary extension to our online fantasy football products.

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

CBS is obviously dealing from a position of strength. They've already renewed 14 shows, which is more than half of their prime-time schedule.

CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.

CBS has no problem with airing commercial after commercial advocating the consumption of fried chicken, pork sausage and fast-food burgers, even though eating these products are making Americans fat, sick and boring in bed.

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

CBS failed with David Lee Roth and they can't afford to take any more chances.

CBS called everything the Road to the Final Four. The season was just leading up to the Final Four. The office pools started to grow. It became a social interaction phenomenon.

I loved and continue to love that job, but this unique -- and unexpected -- opportunity with CBS News is one I became more and more intrigued with and ultimately decided I couldn't pass up.

I have been lucky and blessed over these years to have what is, to me, the best job in the world and to have it at CBS News, ... Along the way, I've had the honor of working with some of the most talented, dedicated professionals in the world, and I'm appreciative of the opportunity to continue doing so in the years ahead.

If CBS and NBC continue in their current models, Dave will beat Jay, ... and I also don't think it matters. Dave's place in talk show history is secure no matter what happens.

I feel that I'm not losing the game for our team. I'm trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didn't play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports' Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

I expect to rely on him broadly to help me strategize, operate and drive results at the various business units which will make up the new CBS Corporation. He was absolutely instrumental in the formation of the new enterprise.

Giving the Olympics their greatest exposure is a continuing goal for us and we're pleased that CBS has made this possible. We're looking forward to airing our third Winter Olympics on TNT,

He has symbolized the 'CBS Evening News' for nearly a quarter century, ... He'll continue to apply his talents to everything he does at CBS News.

There is no bigger stage than the one we were on last weekend. There's a reason CBS is paying $6.3 billion (over 11 years) to broadcast the tournament.

We're off to a great start in 2006 for broadband events, first with this year's Olympics, and now with March Madness. CBS had a great opportunity to stream out-of- market content to office workers during a high point of the college sports year, and managed to take advantage of the confluence of high consumer interest, great content and the inability of office workers to leave their desks.

Having been a fan of him on the weekend CBS News in the '70s . . . he's good at what he does, comfortable with it, and in changing times has the impossible-to-rush benefit of being familiar to the audience. Plus, all former Rotisserie League commissioners make great news anchors.

Having a roster of the best on-air talent in the business remains a top priority at CBS Sports. James Brown is a viewer favorite in terms of knowledge, credibility and likeability. His return to CBS Sports improves the team in the studio and in the field.

Going to Rupp and playing in a nationally televised game on CBS is a great opportunity for us. I know our kids are real excited about it.

Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.

I think it's a great move. I think they will take it more seriously than CBS did. There has never really been extremely aggressive promotion. There was always this perception that it was a mainstream network and if the audience is not primarily Spanish why should we be touting this?

It had become pretty clear throughout the month of December (2005) and especially at the (January 2006) press tour that CBS was looking in a different direction.

I think we can invigorate the place, just like we did at CBS Sports eight years ago,

I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

I was very uncomfortable in the habit-all that starched white stuff. I smoked at the time and used to love to walk down the halls of CBS with a cigarette dangling out of my mouth. People were just aghast.

I went to work at CBS when I was 23-years-old, and every time I walked into the building in New York, I saw a plaque with his name on it. It's very true to say that journalists at CBS call him a touchstone.

I will never forget April 13, 1986. It was my first Masters, and just as it ended, (CBS analyst) Ken Venturi drove me back to the CBS compound and said, 'Jimmy, you may be lucky enough to broadcast 50 Masters, but you'll never live to see a greater one than the one you saw today.' I think he was right.

It is an honor that our show's continued ratings success has become part of television history, ... 'Survivor' has been, and continues to be, a wonderful experience for me and for my production crew, and that has remained unchanged since our beginnings. I look forward to continuing as part of the CBS family, and in keeping our loyal Thursday night audience entertained and enthralled for many more years to come.

Our groundbreaking partnership with CBS brings together two industry leaders to better serve both AOL members and viewers of CBS News programs. CBS's unparalleled tradition of news leadership promises a new landmark in innovative online news programming for our members. And AOL's integration into CBS News programs will provide their audiences with a fresh, interactive dimension to the viewing experience.

Over the next 12 months, AOL members will view half a billion pages with the CBS News logo framing our editorial content, ... That's a tremendous number of impressions, in a medium that augments our more traditional television and radio audience.

Our team has always enjoyed a great fan following in Austin, and we know that CBS 42 will be able to satisfy the tremendous thirst for Cowboys information and programming in the state capital.

Station ownership rules could constrain certain buyers like CBS and NWS, which own a large number of TV stations. However, we believe it's possible that UVN could spin-off or sell the TV station business separately from the networks or the conglomerates.

My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope John Paul . The screening is at the Vatican on the 17th, and I've got to be on the plane on the 16th, so I'm hoping we can conclude the deal by the 15th, which is deadline, so I can please Hideki and please my wife ? and meet the pope.

Look at the assets we bring together, ... We bring together a great studio and the most powerful cable networks in the world. We add that to CBS network, CBS' wonderful television station, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor Advertising and soon we're adding (syndication company) King World to it. There's no company in the world that has that mix of assets. This will be the fastest-growing media company in the world.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn't let CBS Radio sell 'The Stan Freberg Show' to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced.

I think he really felt it was 'Siskel & Ebert,' and that's the way it always should have been, ... Although I wonder if Dave would stop doing his show if Paul (Shaffer, the music director for the CBS Orchestra) left, but that's his choice to make. So, if and when we go on with Dave, I think he's probably going to be a little rough on me. But, again, that would be pretty cool -- Dave Letterman taking a shot at you.

I sure hope CBS has something to do with selections in the future, because we make for great TV.

Joining CBS is a unique opportunity that came at the right time for me. I'm thrilled to become part of the rich tradition of CBS News.

The accusation that there was bias in CBS News' reporting of election night results is completely without foundation.

The amount of money that we pay to the anchor will not have any effect on the amount of money we spend on other resources. There is not a direct comparison between how much money we pay an anchor person or a correspondent of CBS News and our resources around the world.

We're well aware of that game. It was a CBS game, and it actually hurt us this year when Coach Pearl was trying to get us some air time.

When Gary is commentating I wish CBS would give him a little more but they know it could drop them over the edge because he's very witty and very smart. The wit is almost slightly over the top.

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

Tom Kane is a consummate professional whose experience in local television, both as a general manager and in sales, has benefited us greatly since he joined our group two years ago, ... The positive growth at CBS and UPN continues to provide great advantages for us at the local level, and I'm counting on Tom to seize those opportunities to improve our positions in all the markets where we compete.

Today's announcement is the culmination of a process that began with the merger of Viacom and CBS and realizes an important opportunity to bring new efficiencies to the broadcast business, while maintaining the distinct voices of CBS and UPN,

When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

The radio division at CBS is in a shambles.

While I am naturally disappointed that the show didn't fare better in the ratings, I am pleased with the quality of the broadcast we created. I remain grateful for the opportunity I had to make CBS a competitive presence in the morning.

You have to think about it. CBS plays that commercial like every day. I'm trying to get excited about this tournament. But every time I try to watch something about it, that commercial is on there.

What did this do to CBS brand credibility? Credibility is really your brand.

We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it and we thought the best way to do that was in English,

Bob is respected. He's trusted, and he's very, very comfortable giving the news. We think at CBS News that the news should be delivered in a respectful and a comfortable way, not as if you were preaching the gospel from Mount Olympus.

Don't give it to Katie. Give it to a bunch of reporters and make CBS News the best news operation in the world.

During the quarter, we announced acquisitions in virtually all operating areas of the company -- in television stations, the Internet, outdoor advertising and syndication, ... We believe these new investments will create significant value at both CBS and Infinity in the years ahead.

feel bound by the traditional definition of what makes a CBS News anchor.

There should be at any time at any network a small group of people who ... can fill in the (anchor) job quite admirably, but we quite honestly are not in that situation at CBS news.

There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television.

These series are the foundation of a schedule that is broader and deeper than any on television. From the start of the night through 11PM, from Monday through Sunday, CBS is populated with successful programs on every night and in every time period - many of which are number one in their time period, and some even number one on the entire night.

The significant strengths of new Viacom to deliver consistent double-digit, bottom-line growth and the proven cash generation ability of CBS Corp. will underpin their performance and define their attractiveness to investors.