Hollywood studio Paramount agrees $28bn merger with Skydance
Paramount and Skydance squeak closer to merger deal
June 2024
Paramount tycoon Shari Redstone pulls the plug on proposed Skydance merger
Hollywood giant Paramount Global braces for new era as bidders circle
May 2024
Jamie Carragher: ‘CBS was worried whether or not the US audience would understand me’
CBS’s Uefa Champions League Today has been met with heaps of acclaim, drawing comparisons to TNT’s Inside the NBA. And Jamie Carragher has proven essential to the chemistry
April 2024
Matt Ryan to join CBS’s NFL studio show as longtime pundits Simms and Esiason depart
Matt Ryan, who retired last week after 15 NFL seasons, will join CBS Sports as a studio analyst and Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason will leave after long runs
‘I’ve missed it since the day I left’: Dan Rather on life after CBS News
Legendary journalist makes remarks in advance of release of Netflix documentary about his life and work
Sportblog
CBS football show banter-chatting us all into the age of the hyper-pundit
Barney Ronay
Micah Richards laughing uproariously behind a lighted TV plinth? That’s the kind of noise football is being distilled into
February 2024
Paramount cuts 800 staff two days after Super Bowl was biggest ever TV show
Company that owns CBS, broadcaster of NFL showpiece, announces 3% reduction in global workforce
December 2023
Business of soccer
Why doesn’t US coverage of soccer include more US voices?
The best broadcast in the US features a presenter with a mid-Atlantic accent, a Frenchman, an Englishman and a citizen of the people’s republic of Liverpool
November 2023
USL to be broadcast on network TV for the first time in history
The USL and CBS have announced a four-year partnership that will matches be broadcast on linear television for the first time in league history
June 2023
JJ Watt signs multi-year contract to be NFL studio analyst for CBS Sports
JJ Watt has signed a multi-year deal with CBS Sports to serve as a studio analyst and will appear on the network’s NFL Today pre-game show
May 2023
Jeremy Strong recalls his father’s life-saving act: ‘He broke all the bones in both his legs’
‘I won’t be 80’: Michael J Fox describes struggles with Parkinson’s
April 2023
Adele joins James Corden for emotional Carpool Karaoke finale
CBS faces backlash over 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene
March 2023
From the Guardian archive
Final episode of M*A*S*H attracts record number of viewers – archive, 1983
1 March 1983: The long-running US television comedy set during the Korean war airs for the last time
January 2023
Prince Harry interview: what we learned about royal briefings, reconciliation and that beard
Across two interviews, Prince Harry defended his decision to write an autobiography and said he hoped for “accountability” from his family
November 2022
CBS must pay $30.5m for insider trading around Les Moonves sexual assault allegations
New York attorney general’s office says CBS executives conspired with a Los Angeles police captain to conceal sexual assault allegations against Moonves
September 2022
Trump ‘deeply wounded narcissist’ says former White House lawyer
Ty Cobb served during ex-president’s administration and claimed narcissism was one of two toxic traits dictating his actions
