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Another cable channel has been acquired...

As a side question, will UPN be a part of CBS Corporation or stay on the Viacom side? (Since the "P" in "UPN" does mean "Paramount.")
 
> As a side question, will UPN be a part of CBS Corporation or
> stay on the Viacom side? (Since the "P" in "UPN" does mean
> "Paramount.")

CBS will retain both CBS and UPN networks, the TV stations, the TV and film syndication division, and Infinity Broadcasting, while Viacom will keep MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, and other non-media properties in their portfolio.
 
CBS should have much better luck with this channel than they did with CBS Cable and Eye on People, both of which tanked. Here, they're bound to take full advantage of an extra cable/DBS platform for their regular NCAA basketball coverage, plus have a place to rerun the games the mother network carries regionally and a well-established platform to carry the NCAA tournament via the internet, an option whose time came last year.

In all, I believe it's a perfect acquisition. Now the real question: will CBS attach it's "eye" to the CSTV pennant?
 
Hi everyone:

> CBS should have much better luck with this channel than they
> did with CBS Cable and Eye on People, both of which tanked.
> Here, they're bound to take full advantage of an extra
> cable/DBS platform for their regular NCAA basketball
> coverage, plus have a place to rerun the games the mother
> network carries regionally and a well-established platform
> to carry the NCAA tournament via the internet, an option
> whose time came last year.
>
> In all, I believe it's a perfect acquisition. Now the real
> question: will CBS attach it's "eye" to the CSTV pennant?

BIGGER question....

How much do you want to bet that CBS will use it for ALL of CBS Sports???

Thoughts anyone?

Cheers for now :)

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Well, there goes one of the few remaining non informercial hours on i (Pax). They've been running a CSTV feed of Conference USA Football Game of the week at 6 pm Eastern on Saturdays the past few weeks.

Don't know about your i Pax station but the one here in Tampa is getting tougher to watch every week....very poor signal, digital breakup etc.

As for CSTV , technically they look like SCTV (with no disrepect due to the greatest TV comedy ever)

I"m sure CBS will clean house. The half time show provided no highlights whatsoever, and the graphics look like that of a cable-access station. The game graphics were so small and fuzzy, they were unwatchable.

But good luck to CBS. Hopefully theyll convince Bright house to pick it up and charge me another five bucks per month....................
 
> CBS will retain both CBS and UPN networks, the TV stations,
> the TV and film syndication division, and Infinity
> Broadcasting, while Viacom will keep MTV Networks, Paramount
> Pictures, and other non-media properties in their portfolio.

Are they each going to spin off into entirely separate companies (and thusly become competitors on television/cable), or are they going to be two separate subsidiaries of one larger corporation?
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> Are they each going to spin off into entirely separate
> companies (and thusly become competitors on
> television/cable), or are they going to be two separate
> subsidiaries of one larger corporation?

The latter.
 
> Well, there goes one of the few remaining non informercial
> hours on i (Pax). They've been running a CSTV feed of
> Conference USA Football Game of the week at 6 pm Eastern on
> Saturdays the past few weeks.
>
> Don't know about your i Pax station but the one here in
> Tampa is getting tougher to watch every week....very poor
> signal, digital breakup etc.
>

The I-Pax here locally is getting tough to watch, but not for technical reasons. The programming was lame before, and has just gotten worse (if that's possible). Ever thought that you would long to see that wonderful depth of portrayal that only Billy Ray Cyrus could bring to series television?
 
> ...this time its College Sports Television(CSTV). CBS(which
> is expected to split from Viacom) will add the channel to
> its ownership portfolio in 2006.
>
> Here's the link:
>
htt> p://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-cstv&prov=ap&type=lgns
>

Now the reason CBS did this is to compete with ESPN U which is also a college sports network like CSTV that was started by ESPN. It will sure be good for CSTV during March Madness as CBS Sports has the Final Four and all the games during March Madness. Now they have CSTV to bring more college basketball and college sports. This will also help CSTV to get out to cable networks that do not yet carry CSTV. Now I Wonder if "i/pax" plan for showing some CSTV progamming will now get canned as its part of CBS now.
 
Brighthouse has been carrying it here in Orlando on their digital lineup from about the point of where it signed on. Strange that Tampa doesn't. And yeah, we do have to pay extra for it.
 
Four *quality* digital channels they have, too. You get your share of east coast infomercials, your west coast informercials, and you can basically go to church 24/7 on the other two. What a better world it'll be.
 
Correction

> CBS will retain both CBS and UPN networks, the TV stations,
> the TV and film syndication division, and Infinity
> Broadcasting, while Viacom will keep MTV Networks, Paramount
> Pictures, and other non-media properties in their portfolio.

The film syndication division will stay with Paramount Pictures as a part of Viacom. CBS will get only get Paramount's television programming syndication department.

I wonder how they'll handle this split, considering that the same people are currently handling both the syndicated television and film sales?
 
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