CBS Leads in Ad Commitments for Fall Season
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Four networks manage to increase their rates as they complete their upfront sales.
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Two weeks into the fall prime-time season, new series such as ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are among the most-watched shows on network television.
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CBS has picked up additional episodes of its freshman comedies "Listen Up" and "Center of the Universe."
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CBS scored a clean sweep among young and old viewers during the third week of the new television season, while ABC showed signs that its two freshman successes may have staying power.
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- With more than a little help from the Olympics and the elections, advertising spending grew at a healthy 10 percent-plus pace in the first nine months of the year, one leading industry tracker reported Monday.
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CBS is enlisting eggs in its scramble to attract viewers. The CBS logo and slogans promoting the TV network and its series will appear along with coded expiration dates on eggs sold by grocers &amp;#151; just another promotional measure in the competitive world of television.
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A year ago at CBS&#39;  &quot;upfront&quot; presentation to advertisers, newly crowned network  star Katie Couric made a grand entrance amid hopes that her  anchorship of the &quot;CBS Evening News&quot; would boost the  third-place newscast.
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Television sports' drive toward product placement throughout the game threatens to damage its relationship with viewers, the president of CBS Sports said Wednesday.
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CBS Corp. CBS.N aims to boost   revenue and profit growth at faster than 2006's anticipated   levels, its top executive said on Tuesday.
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UPN is adding "Cuts" to its midseason schedule.
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By Michael Hiestand  CBS' NCAA men's basketball tournament coverage is one of the more unchanging formulas in TV sports, presumably delighting viewers who like their sports served straight, rather than as show biz.    But it could be tweaked.
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LOS ANGELES  - CBS was the Nielsen poll  winner again on Monday as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Two and a  Half Men" and "CSI: Miami" delivered strong numbers.
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NEW YORK  - CBS won the coveted double in the primetime ratings race last week -- total viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic -- and also scored six of the top 10 shows in the advertiser-friendly age group.
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CBS has set return dates for 14 prime-time series, including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men."
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CBS was hot as a pistol in the primetime ratings derby for the week ending Dec. 5, with six of its series hitting their best numbers of the season: "Everybody Loves Raymond," "CSI: Miami," "The King of Queens," "Judging Amy," "The Amazing Race" and "NCIS."
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NEW YORK  &#151; While CBS Corp. is doubling the amount of bandwidth available for viewing NCAA tournament games this year, it will still restrict the number of viewers to keep the system running smoothly.
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CBS won last week's  primetime ratings race in both viewership and the adults 18-49  demographic, while the network's adventure series "NCIS" took  advantage of the paucity of original episodes to become the  most-watched show for the first time in its four-season run.