This is a COMPANY and NOT a label
American multinational media / entertainment (holding) company, officially operating under the name CBS Inc. from 1974. Owner of the CBS trademark (1974-1997). The company was formerly legally known as label (In 1997 renamed CBS Broadcasting Inc.).
The company's operations were segregated into three principal divisions (which included subdivisions) -- CBS Broadcast Group, CBS Records Group and CBS Publishing Group. Principal activities -- broadcasting, production, manufacturing and marketing of recorded music and videos, distributor of video games and computer software, and publishing. As of 1984 the company, through its numerous subsidiaries which formed its three principal divisions, employed over 30,000 people worldwide.
Divisions (and sub divisions)
CBS Broadcast Group
- CBS Television network, CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports, CBS News, CBS Television stations, CBS Radio, CBS operations and engineering, CBS Productions.
CBS Records Group
- CBS Records, CBS Records International, label, label
CBS Publishing Group
- CBS educational and professional, CBS Magazines, CBS software
In 1982 the company established a jointly-owned venture with label to form label. Worldwide subsidiaries included -- UK CBS Fox Video (Holdings) Ltd., CBS/Fox Video Ltd. Australia -- label New Zealand -- label, Germany -- CBS/Fox Video (Germany) GmbH, Canada CBS/Fox Video (Canada) Ltd. Spain CBS/Fox Video (Espanola) SA (90%) France -- CBS/Fox Video French Film Licensing Corp., CBS/Fox Video (France) SA (99%), CBS/Fox Video International SARL (99%), Japan CBS/Fox Video (Far East) KK.
In 1987 the CBS Records Group division -- worldwide recorded music operations (consolidated under the newly formed holding company label), including the rights to the Columbia, Epic labels etc., were sold by CBS Inc. to the Sony Corporation of Japan. CBS Inc. granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS brand. Following the acquisition, the holding company CBS Records Inc was subsequently renamed label in 1991. In the same year as the Sony acquisition the various worldwide companies that formed part of the CBS Songs division within the CBS Records Group were acquired by label, which included the rights (catalogues) to over 250,000 songs (SBK Entertainment World Inc. would subsequently be acquired by label Plc. in 1989).
Principal subsidiaries of CBS Inc. as of 1989 (not including indirectly owned local subsidiaries):
Austria - label, Music Service Centre GesmbH (33.3%) Belgium - label Denmark - label, Grammofonselskab Distributions Centralen A/S (25%) France CBS International SA, label (86%), Gilda SARL Finland - label, label OY (33%) Germany - label Greece label Italy - label Netherlands - label, Funckler BV (label) Norway - label Portugal - label Spain label Sweden - label Switzerland - CBS Columbia AG UK - CBS Records International Ltd., label (label) USA CBS/Sony California, Inc Canada - CBS Broadcast International of Canada Ltd., label, label Mexico - label Argentina - label Brazil - label Costa Rica label Chile - label Columbia - label El Salvador - Distribuidora Salvadorena De Discos SA Panama - Distribuidora Panamena De Discos SA Guatemala - Distribuidora Guatemalteca De Discos SA Venezuela - label Peru - label Australia - CBS Australia Pty Ltd, label, label, label (50%) Japan - label (50%), label, April music, Inc., label, CBS/Sony Publishing Inc,, label, label, Japan Record Distribution System Inc.(50%), Music Plaza Inc Hong Kong - label (51%) Singapore - label Thailand CBS Epic (Thailand) Ltd. (60%), CBS Music (Thailand) Ltd. (60%) Malaysia - label India label (40%) Israel - label Nigeria - label (60%) Kenya - label
In 1997 the company was renamed CBS Broadcasting Inc., which as of 2017 remains the registered owner of the CBS trademark.
Also credited as CBS Inc and CBS, Inc.
Consider also label, if credited that way.