CBS News

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CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports.

1 Current productions
2 Current and past personalities
3 International broadcasts
4 History
5 Past Logos
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Current productions

[edit] Current television shows

CBS News also runs a CBS Newsbreak daily during CBS daytime programming. CBS News ran a five-minute news bulletin, transmitted to all the affiliates at 11 :55 a.m. from 1958 to 1988. Currently it airs at 3:58 p.m. and lasts one minute after Guiding Light.

CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news gathering service. Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. Newspath has a team of reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally-obtained footage that may be of national interest.

Newspath is a part of the Network News Service, a collaborative effort between the affiliate news services of ABC, CBS and FOX. This means that, for example, the FOX affiliate could uplink footage to their affiliate network, which would then be picked up by NNS, and be available to any ABC, CBS or FOX affiliate outside of the market that the footage originated in.

[edit] CBS Radio News

The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is called the CBS Radio Network.

[edit] Public Eye

In 2005 CBS News created its own blogsite called Public Eye to act as a defacto ombudsman for CBS News and give greater transparency to the decisions being made. It occasionally invites other journalists and bloggers to give their own opinions on this site.

[edit] Current and past personalities

[edit] International broadcasts

CBS Evening News is shown on Sky News to viewers in Europe and Africa. CBS is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both CBS News is shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.