Happy 90th birthday, Columbia Broadcasting System

[Ted Langdell]

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System's first broadcast.

Back then, that meant radio. Today's CBS Corporation is shedding its radio arm in a merger with Pennsylvania based Entercom. 

It's a complicated business "dance" that takes 300 pages to describe in SEC filings. 

http://www.insideradio.com/free/entercom-reveals-step-by-step-details-of-merger-with-cbs/article_08d9feb8-201c-11e7-a770-278ebffd1579.html

10 years from now, will CBS radio hold a 100th anniversary celebration?

And will CBS television try to assert that it is 100 years old?

CBS television's first broadcast was July 1st of 1941.

You can read more about the companies'business and broadcast history here...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS

... Including its growth from a 16 station chain founded by a New York talent agent, purchase by The manufacturer of Columbia Records  and Columbia Phonographs, and how William S. Paley became a controlling owner and grew the company into a major broadcast entity.

Along the way, the company has had involvement with program production, equipment development and manufacturing (CBS Labs, HyTron,) and publishing.

It's had a variety of controlling ownership, including William S Paley, who brought Paramont pictures into a 49% ownership position, and then built the radio network into a powerhouse that enabled Columbia to buy back the stock from Paramount.

CBS's history is an interesting read. 

Happy 90th Anniversary. We may not get to wish you 💯. 

We now return you to your regularly scheduled activity.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary, Quad Videotape Group
Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
(530)301-2931

Dictated into and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any weird stuff I didn't catch.

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