CBS Films

CBS Films is an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a division of CBS Corporation and is considered a mini-major studio.

CBS Films will distribute, develop and produce four to six $50 million budget movies a year.

Background

CBS made a brief move into film production in 1967, creating Cinema Center Films and closed in 1972 as an unprofitable unit. In 1979 CBS launched a new theatrical films division, which was officially named CBS Theatrical Films the following year. While this was in operation, CBS entered into a joint venture with Columbia Pictures and HBO called Tri-Star Pictures. CBS eventually dropped out of the venture in 1985, and CBS Theatrical Films came to an end that same year. In 2000, CBS was bought by Viacom, which also owned Paramount Pictures.

Company history

In March 2007, following the 2006 split from Viacom and Paramount, CBS Corp. launched CBS Films with the hiring of Bruce Tobey as head of business affairs, legal, finance and video distribution. Amy Baer was hired in September 2007 as president and CEO for CBS Films. With CBS owning a cable movie channel, this division was created to make content for the channel. On November 17, 2009, CBS signed with Sony Pictures for a three-year deal for international distribution.

WEVV-TV

WEVV-TV, virtual channel 44 (UHF digital channel 45), is a primary CBS-, and subchannel-only Fox- and MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Evansville, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting. WEVV maintains studio facilities located on Carpenter and Bond Streets in Downtown Evansville; WEVV maintains transmitter facilities located at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky.

History

Early history

Channel 44 first signed on the air on November 17, 1983, as an independent station. The station was originally owned by Ralph Wilson (owner of San Francisco independent station KICU-TV, and founder of the Buffalo Bills). It was the first full-market independent station in the Tri-State, and the first full-market commercial television station to sign on in the Evansville market since WTVW (channel 7, now a CW affiliate) debuted 27 years earlier in August 1956.

Competing independent station WLCN (channel 19, later WAZE-TV and now defunct) – which signed one month after WEVV began operations – primarily served the southern part of the market at the time. The station originally operated from studio facilities located on Main Street and Riverside Drive in downtown Evansville.

CBS 12

CBS 12 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States:

Port Alberni (Alberni Valley Regional) Airport

Alberni Valley Regional Airport, (IATA: YPB, TC LID: CBS8), is located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) northwest of Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada.

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