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CBS: A Quiz on the Iconic Television Network

Test your knowledge about CBS, its history, key figures, and broadcasting details with this engaging quiz.

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1 What entity owns CBS?

2 They were nominated for several ________, and were among the first programs ever broadcast from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

3 What is the branding of CBS?

4 Who of the following people founded CBS?

5 What picture format does CBS broadcast in?

6 In 2000, CBS came under the control of ________, which coincidentally had begun as a spin-off of CBS in 1971.

7 Who of the following is a key person at CBS?

8 Where does CBS come from?

9 What type is thing is CBS?

10 When was the CBS?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont.
  • nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS's Petticoat Junction, Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford's short-lived NBC sitcom, Dear Phoebe.
  • in 1960, 33 years before Dick Van Dyke began Diagnosis Murder, CBS ran the similarly titled series, Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal as a crime-solving pathologist.
  • during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries.
  • the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Dick and the Duchess was one of the few American television series filmed in England.
  • the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store.
  • when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office.
  • though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week, it was generally panned by critics.
  • the actors Peter Helm and his sister Anne inherited a large estate from their banker-grandfather in the same month that Peter made his TV debut on CBS's Pete and Gladys.
  • the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • despite the efforts of fledgling writers Norman Lear and Larry Gelbart, Celeste Holm bombed after only eight episodes in her 1954 CBS sitcom Honestly, Celeste!.
  • Run, Buddy, Run, a 1966 CBS sitcom, featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder.
  • Howard A. Chinn, while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar.
  • Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA.
  • baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater.
  • Annie Fargé, who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel, was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season.
  • Nancy Dickerson was the first female news correspondent on the CBS television network.
  • Robert Bray (forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan's 1958 hit film South Pacific, much to Bray's longstanding regret.
  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963.
  • Cinderella, as broadcast on CBS in March 1957, is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television.
  • Saturday Night Live comedian Ana Gasteyer appeared in a serious role as a judge in "Fleas", an episode of the CBS drama, The Good Wife.
  • Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly.
  • Alan Cumming guest-starred in "Bang", an episode of the CBS drama series The Good Wife, as a political consultant commentators said mirrored Rahm Emanuel.
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