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CBS, Inc.

American international media conglomerate 1974-1997
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Summary

CBS, Inc. is a media conglomerate[1]. CBS, Inc. is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Has organizational division: CBS Associated Records[4]
  • Child organization or unit: Columbia Records, Inc.[5], CBS Discos, Inc.[6], Discos CBS Indústria e Comércio Ltda.[7], CBS Schallplatten GmbH[8], CBS Dischi S.p.A.[9], Holt, Rinehart, and Winston[10], Fawcett Publications[11], Popular Library[12]
  • Inception: 1974[13]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1997[14]
  • Replaces: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.[15]
  • Replaced by: CBS Broadcasting, Inc.[16]
  • Official name: CBS, Inc.[17]
  • Legal form: corporation[18]
  • Different from: CBS[19]

Product Details

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  • Type: Holding[20]

  • Began / founded: 1927[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 27795d9f-3994-4643-9cd2-c5f2b304472d[22]

Related Entities

CBS Corporation

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Dictionary of Literary Biography. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Geagea · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → CBS
    Wikidata description → American international media conglomerate 1974-1997
    Has organizational division → CBS Associated Records
    Discogs label id → 211334
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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