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Aug 9, 2016 · January 1929: Columbia Broadcasting System President William S. Paley completes a circuit feeding the West Coast, turning CBS into a national network for the first time. He changed the programming emphasis from high-brow music to more mainstream tastes, signing the Paul Whiteman Band and a young singer named Bing Crosby.
CBS was founded as a radio network in 1927 and then expanded to television in the 1940s. Although it primarily remained an independent company throughout most of the 20th century, Paramount Pictures temporarily held a 49 percent ownership stake from 1929 to 1932.
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The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was bought by William S. Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System.
CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. The name is derived from an abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name. The company became known as CBS, Inc. in 1971, and as CBS in 1997.
May 6, 2015 · A. Brad Schwartz. May 6, 2015. Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G. Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds. The broadcast, which aired on October 30, 1938, and claimed ...
Feb 10, 2023 · Where did the idea come from? Welles’s CBS series Mercury Theatre on the Air was low-budget without a sponsor. It broadcast fresh adaptations of literary classics, but for Halloween week in 1938, Welles came up with the idea of doing a radio broadcast where it would seem that a crisis was actually happening, “broadcast in such a dramatised ...
Oct 26, 2021 · Almost 85 years ago – Oct. 30, 1938 – “War of the Worlds” was broadcast on CBS Radio, including KNX (1070 AM) here in Los Angeles. In his radio adaption of H. G. Wells’ book for his ...
