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Los Angeles County prosecutors will look into past cases involving a former police captain who allegedly tipped off CBS executive Les Moonves that a woman had filed a confidential police report accusing him of sexual assault, the district attorney's office said Friday.
"Our office is...

CBS and its former president, Leslie Moonves, will pay $30.5 million as part of an agreement with the New York attorney general's office, which says the network's executives conspired with a Los Angeles police captain to conceal sexual assault allegations against Moonves.
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They never even made it onto the stage.
There were constant reminders of the diminished influence of broadcast television networks this past week, when entertainment companies Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBC Universal and Fox hawked their upcoming wares to advertisers in...

Network TV's fondness for reality fare and reboots combine in "The Real Love Boat," a sea-going dating show that's part of the CBS fall schedule announced Wednesday.
Described as a "romance adventure competition," the series credits as its inspiration the popular and kitschy comedy-drama...

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has unveiled the nominees for the television broadcast of the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards which will be presented on Friday, June 25 (8:00-10:00PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and streamed on Paramount+.
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Everything old is new again on network television, and without apology.
As the TV industry rushes into the future with streaming services, traditional broadcasters unveiled 2021-22 schedules that rely heavily on familiar series brands and reboots of decades-old shows.
There's even...

The $113 billion deal to telecast NFL games through 2033 is head-swimmingly large — until you consider that the very survival of broadcast networks as we know them may depend upon it.
The deal announced by the NFL and media companies last Thursday spreads professional football content...

The surest sign of how the coronavirus shutdown has devastated the television industry is the fourth-place finish of CBS in what was nominally the first week of a new fall season.
The network's viewership was down a whopping 61% from the premiere week last year, the Nielsen company said...

Led by the reliable "60 Minutes" on CBS, news programming dominated the television rankings on a quiet week in mid-August.
Nine of the 20 most popular programs were news or commentary shows, eight of them on Fox News Channel, the Nielsen company said.
CBS was the most popular...

Perhaps sensing the abbreviated season might not last long, television viewers welcomed baseball back with open arms from its coronavirus hiatus.
ESPN's coverage of the first game back, between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals last Thursday, was the most-watched regular...