Posted on 08/06/2009 2:08:46 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
CBS Corp.'s second-quarter profit sank 96% on lower ad sales and one-time gain, but the media giant cited early signs of a recovery.
"As we anticipated, early signs of a recovery took hold in the second quarter," with results better than the first quarter, said Chief Executive Les Moonves.
He added CBS expects the second half of the year to be "considerably stronger" than the first. Mr. Moonves noted CBS was the only network to add viewers this summer and that "we also have a strong slate of syndication titles in the pipeline for release between now and year-end."
CBS has suffered from a steep downturn in ad revenue and is losing viewers to the Internet. The company slashed its dividend, and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services in June lowered its debt rating to one notch above junk, even after the company bought back debt with near-term maturities and issued longer-dated bonds.
For the latest quarter, CBS reported a profit of $15.4 million, or 2 cents a share, down from $408.4 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding items such as a debt-extinguishment loss in the latest quarter and divestitures a year earlier, earnings fell to 8 cents a share from 49 cents.
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this is bad news in my opinion. They have one of the best Internet access to old TV shows.
I have been just hooking up a lap top to my 50" TV and get really nice pictures off CBS and other web sites that have them streaming.
Too bad for the Communist Broadcasting System. Too bad for Dan “Frequency Kenneth” Rather and that pompous old fart Cronkite or Crankkite.
Good riddance to bad, treasonous, anti American rubbish.
Can you provide some examples?
Good, they need to go away.
Maybe they’ll trot out Dan Rather with some forged financial statements showing a profit.
Wahoooo! And the more money they lose by airing obama live—all the time—the better!
C’mon Barry, have weekly prime time press conferences and kill them off for good!
I wish some rich conservative muli-billionaire would buy CBS, fire Couric and all the other liberal newspeople employed there, and then run the news division from a conservative point of view. The network would grow leaps and bounds quickly, imho. Fox News has already proven this would happen.
They should hire Rush to anchor their evening news.
You bet! I haven’t had cable or any TV for almost three years. I watch the good stuff on hulu.com. Recently, I bought a 42 inch flat screen with all the inputs. Hulu on the big tv is perfect!!! I love my internet TV!
That’s what happens when one takes the Blue Pill.
This death is too slow.
There are many sites like southpark studios that you can find specific shows.
I have been looking for a TV station that plays on the net old tv shows. I have not found it yet.
Thanks!
oh. you need a good video card to run a large TV.
No problem. I already have the tv-out option installed.
Yee-hah! Haven’t watched anything on CBS for a good fifteen years.
KDOCD Channel 56.1 in Los Angeles shows old shows. This is showing right now: 3:00 to 6:00 PM PDT Thursday Aug 6 2009
TVPG (CC) HDTV Magnum, P.I.
TVPG (CC) HDTV Hogan s Heroes
TVPG HDTV Hogan s Heroes
TVPG HDTV M*A*S*H
TVPG (CC) HDTV M*A*S*H
Yeap good old KDOC... I am in LA and put up an antenna for specifically that channel. But they are not streaming.
Obama will loan them 2 billion of the taxpayers money.
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