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75th-anniversary special reminds us of CBS' storied history.
Byline: Ed Bark
Live from New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, it's a three-hour shebang called "CBS at 75."
Hmm, this comes just 5 { years after a May 1998 special called "CBS: The First 50 Years."
You old dog, CBS. How'd you manage that? Simple. Add the audio-only years.
Sunday's star-studded presentation, kicking off the first full week of the November "sweeps," craftily uses 1928 for starters. That's the year in which founding father William S. Paley bought 16 radio stations and christened them the Columbia Broadcast System. Two decades later, CBS officially entered the television age with a national prime-time lineup that included "Riddle Me This," "Roar of the Rails," "Cap'n Billy's Mississippi Music Hall," "Kobbs Korner," "Toast ...
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