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CBS

CBS appears in Vol.265 跨越50年的美国版本之子 as one of the media assets implicated by David Ellison’s Paramount expansion. The episode connects CBS to the broader question of whether a politically sensitive merger process can affect news independence.

The source also mentions a Trump lawsuit settlement involving CBS’s 60 Minutes interview editing controversy. The page’s wiki role is therefore to connect Paramount, broadcast-news assets, and Media Ownership Independence Risk, not to summarize CBS’s full corporate history.

The NFL adds CBS as a foundational NFL media-rights buyer. The episode says Pete Rozelle negotiated a pooled national CBS deal after persuading NFL owners to centralize television rights, making CBS part of the league’s Sports Broadcasting Act and Sports Media Rights history.

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