NAACP-CBS Venture Sets Slate with Whoopi Goldberg, DL Hughley & Earthquake A year after NAACP’s production partnership with CBS Studios formally launched with the hire of Sheila Ducksworth as President, the venture has sold its first projects. The five shows — spanning platforms (bro... Read More...
2022 GRAMMYs Postponed The following is a Joint Statement from the Recording Academy and CBS: “After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many p... Read More...
The Nelson George Mixtape: Artists Issues The creation of black music departments meant bigger advances, larger recording budgets, more coordinated national promotion, and better royalty rates. However, artists still didn’t own their masters, meani... Read More...
Nelson George Mixtape: The R&B World Circa 1979-Black Music Departments Starting in the early ‘70s all the major record companies made a commitment to being in the black music business. Up until then prolific independent labels like Detroit’s Motown, Memphis’ Stax, New York’s A... Read More...
CBS Sets Diversity Targets for Reality Casts; 50% of Talent Must Be BIPOC CBS’ slate of reality shows is set to become more diverse after the network introduced a series of representation targets. The network has introduced an edict that 50% of its casts for its unscripted shows m... Read More...
CBS: the Mess behind Gayle King CBS swiftly promised “changes” to its “internal process” after its most high-profile anchor, Gayle King, publicly blasted the network over a clip that it used to promote one of her interviews. On Thursday, K... Read More...
Vivica Fox to host new talk show ‘Face the Truth’ Vivica A. Fox is jumping into the talk show arena. CBS has given the actress a syndicated talk show that will launch this fall. “Face the Truth” is described as a conflict-resolution show in which guests rev... Read More...
Eve Joins CBS’ ‘The Talk’ Eve joins Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood on the daytime network talker. She previously appeared as a guest co-host during the week of Oct. 30. “We are thrilled to welcome Eve... Read More...
Entercom/CBS Merger Moves Forward (KBLX-SF to Bonneville) Entercom Communications Corp. announced a series of agreements that will smooth out the last remaining hurdles to its pending merger with CBS Radio Inc. -- 1) A settlement with the Antitrust Division of the U.S... Read More...
