Company to change advertisements at any time within such programming and offer advertisers greater audience reach. In addition, the CBS Television Network’s revenues include station affiliation fees.
CBS Entertainment is responsible for acquiring or developing and scheduling the entertainment programming presented on the CBS Television Network, which includes primetime comedy and drama series, reality‑based programming, specials, children’s programs, daytime dramas, game shows and late-night programs such as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS News operates a worldwide news organization, providing the CBS Television Network and CBS Radio News™ with regularly scheduled news and public affairs broadcasts, including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours Mystery, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning and Face the Nation as well as special reports. CBS News also provides CBS Newspath®, a television news syndication service that offers daily news coverage, sports highlights and news features to the CBS Television Network affiliates and other subscribers worldwide. CBS Sports broadcasts on the television network include The NFL Today; certain PGA Tour Golf Tournaments, the Masters and the PGA Championship; certain games from the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the rights to which have been extended through 2032 under a March 2016 agreement with the NCAA and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; regular-season college basketball games; regular-season college football games, including games from the Southeastern Conference and the NFL’s American Football Conference (AFC) regular-season, post-season wild card playoff, divisional playoff and championship games. In 2016, CBS broadcast Super Bowl 50, for which CBS Sports won three Sports Emmy®Awards, and certain AFC games in the 2016 season under its February 2014 agreement with the NFL to broadcast the AFC package from the 2014 through the 2022 seasons, which also includes certain National Football Conference regular season games and the Super Bowls in 2016, 2019 and 2022. The Company produced and broadcast certain NFL Thursday Night Football games for the 2016 season and will also do so for the 2017 season under its January 2016 agreement with the NFL.
CBS Television Network content also is exhibited via the internet, including through CBS.com™; CBSN, the Company’s live digital streaming advertiser-supported news network available 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and CBS All Access, the Company’s digital streaming subscription service which includes a commercial-free option for on-demand content announced in August 2016. CBS All Access offers both current and library programming as well as original series, such as the upcoming The Good Wife spin-off The Good Fight and Star Trek: Discovery . In December 2016, the Company commenced a multi-year deal with the NFL for the live, local NFL games broadcast by the CBS Television Network to be streamed on certain CBS All Access platforms. Digital streaming services such as CBS All Access and CBSN are also known as “over-the-top” or “OTT” services which provide video content via the internet to users without payment to a traditional MVPD. CBS All Access and CBSN are available at CBS.com and CBSNews.com™, respectively, and through CBS software applications (“apps”) on multiple digital platforms, including Android, iOS, Amazon Fire and Windows 8 mobile platforms, and Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation, Roku and Xbox connected device platforms, among others. In January 2017, the Company entered into an agreement for the digital streaming of the CBS Television Network’s programming on Hulu’s upcoming live television streaming service. During 2016, the CBS Television Network broadcast the 70 th Annual Tony Awards ®, the Kennedy Center Honors and the Grammy Awards®. In June 2016, the Company extended an agreement with The Recording Academy ® to broadcast the Grammy Awards on the CBS Television Network through 2026. Furthering the Company’s analytic tools regarding television advertising and ratings, in 2016, the Company announced the “NYU Stern / CBS Media Analytics Initiative” to focus on the interactions between television and other media platforms and their influence on consumer exposure and behavior and “Purchase-Driven Planning” with Nielsen Catalina Solutions used to maximize return on investment across television and digital advertising campaigns, all of which supplement the Company’s “Campaign Performance Audit™,” a data-driven approach for analyzing and buying advertising time on broadcast television which helps advertising customers enhance consumer targeting and measure the effectiveness of their advertising.
The CW, a broadcast network and the Company’s 50/50 joint venture with Warner Bros. Entertainment, airs programming, including Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Supergirl and The Flash. Eight of the Company’s owned television stations are affiliates of The CW. Certain of The CW’s series are streamed on Netflix, a subscription video-on-demand service, including pursuant to output license agreements entered into with Netflix, Inc. in July 2016.
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