CBS Corp Company Description
This media conglomerate has its eye focused on the TV. CBS Corporation, one of the leading television broadcasting and production companies in the world, owns CBS Broadcasting, the #1 broadcast network in the US. The corporation also operates about 30 TV stations around the country and owns 50% of The CW Network. On cable, CBS owns movie channel Showtime and sports channel CBS College Sports Network. It creates and distributes programming through CBS Television Distribution Group and CBS Paramount Network Television. In addition to TV, the company owns CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor, and book publisher Simon & Schuster. Chairman Sumner Redstone controls CBS Corp. through his National Amusements movie theater chain.
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