, CBS provides hours of regularly scheduled network programming each week. The network provides 22 hours of primetime programming to affiliated stations Monday through Saturday from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and Sunday from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time (7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday in Central/Mountain time). The network also provides daytime programming from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific weekdays (subtract 1 hour for all other time zones), including a half-hour break for local news and features game shows
The Price Is Right and ''
Let's Make a Deal and
soap operas The Young and the Restless,
The Bold and the Beautiful, and Beyond the Gates.''
CBS News programming includes
CBS Mornings from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. weekdays and
CBS Saturday Morning in the same period on Saturdays; nightly editions of
CBS Evening News; the Sunday political talk show
Face the Nation; early morning news program
CBS News Mornings; and the newsmagazines
60 Minutes,
CBS News Sunday Morning, and
48 Hours. On weeknights, CBS airs the talk show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and reruns of
Comics Unleashed until May 21, 2026, after that, reruns of Comics Unleashed and
Funny You Should Ask will air in the 11:35 and 12:37 am ET/PT slots respectively.
CBS Sports programming is also provided most weekend afternoons. Due to the unpredictable length of sporting events, CBS occasionally delays scheduled primetime programs to allow the programs to air in their entirety, a practice most commonly seen with the
NFL on CBS. In addition to rights to sports events from major sports organizations such as the
NFL,
PGA, and
NCAA, CBS broadcasts the
CBS Sports Spectacular, a sports
anthology series that fills certain weekend afternoon time slots before (or in some cases, in place of) a major sporting event.
Daytime CBS's daytime schedule is the longest among the major networks at hours. It is the home of the long-running game show
The Price Is Right, which began production in 1972 and is the longest continuously running daytime game show on network television. After being hosted by
Bob Barker for 35 years, the show has been hosted since 2007 by actor and comedian
Drew Carey. The network is also home to the current incarnation of ''
Let's Make a Deal'', hosted by singer and comedian
Wayne Brady. CBS is the only commercial broadcast network that continues to broadcast daytime game shows. Notable game shows that once aired as part of the network's daytime lineup include
Match Game,
Tattletales,
The $10/25,000 Pyramid,
Press Your Luck,
Card Sharks,
Family Feud, and
Wheel of Fortune. Past game shows that have had both daytime and prime time runs on the network include
Beat the Clock and
To Tell the Truth. Two long-running primetime-only games were the panel shows ''
What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret''. The network was also home to
The Talk, a panel talk show similar in format to ABC's
The View. It debuted in October 2010. The panel featured
Sheryl Underwood,
Amanda Kloots,
Jerry O'Connell,
Akbar Gbajabiamila, and
Natalie Morales who served as moderator.
The Talk officially ended its run on December 20, 2024. CBS Daytime airs three daytime soap operas each weekday: the hour-long series
The Young and the Restless, which debuted in 1973, and the half-hour series
The Bold and the Beautiful, which debuted in 1987 and hour-long series
Beyond the Gates which debuted in 2025. CBS has long aired the most soap operas out of the
Big Three networks, carrying hours of soaps on its daytime lineup from 1977 to 2009, and still retains the longest daily schedule. Other than
Guiding Light, notable daytime soap operas that once aired on CBS include
As the World Turns,
Love of Life,
Search for Tomorrow,
The Secret Storm,
The Edge of Night, and
Capitol.
Children's programming CBS broadcast the live-action series
Captain Kangaroo on weekday mornings from 1955 to 1982, and on Saturdays until 1984. From 1971 to 1986, CBS News produced a series of one-minute segments titled
In the News, which aired between other Saturday morning programs. Otherwise, CBS's children's programming has mostly focused on animated series such as reruns of
Mighty Mouse,
Looney Tunes, and
Tom and Jerry cartoons, as well as
Scooby-Doo,
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, ''
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In 1997, CBS premiered Wheel 2000'', a children's version of the syndicated game show
Wheel of Fortune which aired simultaneously on the
Game Show Network. In September 1998, CBS began contracting the time out to other companies to provide programming and material for its Saturday morning schedule. The first of these outsourced blocks was the
CBS Kidshow, which ran until 2000 and featured programming from Canadian studio
Nelvana such as
Anatole,
Mythic Warriors,
Rescue Heroes, and
Flying Rhino Junior High. After its agreement with Nelvana ended, the network then entered into a deal with
Nickelodeon to air programming from its
Nick Jr. block beginning in September 2000, under the banner
Nick Jr. on CBS. The
KOL Secret Slumber Party on CBS replaced
Nick Jr. on CBS that September, with the inaugural lineup featuring two new first-run live-action programs, one animated series that originally aired in syndication in 2005, and three shows produced before 2006. In mid-2007, KOL, the children's service of
AOL, withdrew sponsorship from CBS's Saturday morning block, which was subsequently renamed KEWLopolis. Complementing CBS's 2007 lineup were
Care Bears,
Strawberry Shortcake, and
Sushi Pack. On February 24, 2009, it was announced that CBS would renew its contract with Cookie Jar for another three seasons through 2012. On September 19, 2009, KEWLopolis was renamed
Cookie Jar TV. On July 24, 2013, CBS agreed with
Litton Entertainment, which already programmed a syndicated Saturday morning block exclusive to ABC stations and later produced a
block for CBS's sister network The CW that received its debut the following year, to launch a new Saturday morning block featuring live-action reality-based lifestyle, wildlife, and sports series. The Litton-produced
CBS Dream Team block, aimed at teenagers 13 to 16 years old, began broadcasting on September 28, 2013, replacing Cookie Jar TV. The block was renamed CBS WKND in 2023.
Specials Animated primetime holiday specials CBS was the original broadcast network home of the
animated primetime specials based on the
Peanuts comic strip, beginning with
A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965. Over 30 Peanuts specials (many for a specific holiday such as
Halloween) were broadcast on CBS until 2000 when the broadcast rights were acquired by ABC. CBS also aired several primetime animated specials based on the works of
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), beginning with
How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1966, as well as several specials based on the
Garfield comic strip during the 1980s (which led to Garfield getting his
Saturday-morning cartoon on the network,
Garfield and Friends, which ran from 1988 to 1995).
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, produced in
stop motion by
Rankin/Bass, has been another annual holiday staple of CBS; however, that special first aired on NBC in 1964. ,
Rudolph and
Frosty the Snowman was the only two pre-1990 animated specials remaining on CBS; the broadcast rights to the
Charlie Brown specials are now held by Apple,
The Grinch rights by NBC, and the rights to the
Garfield specials by
Boomerang. All of these animated specials, from 1973 to 1990, began with a fondly remembered seven-second animated opening sequence, in which the words "A CBS Special Presentation" were displayed in colorful lettering (the
ITC Avant Garde typeface, widely used in the 1970s, was used for the title logo). The word "SPECIAL", in
all caps and repeated multiple times in multiple colors, slowly zoomed out from the frame in a spinning counterclockwise motion against a black background, and rapidly zoomed back into frame as a single word, in white, at the end; the sequence was accompanied by a jazzy though majestic up-tempo fanfare with dramatic horns and percussion (which was edited incidental music from the CBS crime drama
Hawaii Five-O, titled "Call to Danger" on the
Capitol Records soundtrack LP). This opening sequence appeared immediately before all CBS specials of the period (such as the
Miss USA pageants and the annual presentation of the
Kennedy Center Honors), in addition to animated specials.
Classical music specials CBS was also responsible for airing the series of ''
Young People's Concerts'', conducted by
Leonard Bernstein. Telecast every few months between 1958 and 1972, first in black-and-white and then in color beginning in 1966, these programs introduced millions of children to
classical music through the eloquent commentaries of Bernstein. The specials were nominated for several
Emmy Awards, including two wins in 1961 and later in 1966, and were among the first programs ever broadcast from the
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Over the years, CBS has broadcast three different productions of Tchaikovsky's ballet
The Nutcracker – two live telecasts of the George Balanchine
New York City Ballet production in 1957 and 1958 respectively, a little-known German-American filmed production in 1965 (which was subsequently repeated three times and starred
Edward Villella,
Patricia McBride and
Melissa Hayden), and beginning in 1977, the
Mikhail Baryshnikov staging of the ballet, starring the Russian dancer along with
Gelsey Kirkland – a version that would become a television classic, and remains so today (the broadcast of this production later moved to PBS). In April 1986, CBS presented a slightly abbreviated version of
Horowitz in Moscow, a live piano recital by pianist
Vladimir Horowitz, which marked his return to Russia after over 60 years. The recital was televised as an episode of
CBS News Sunday Morning (televised at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time in the U.S., as the recital was performed simultaneously at 4:00 p.m. in Russia). It was so successful that CBS repeated it a mere two months later by popular demand, this time on videotape, rather than live. In later years, the program was shown as a standalone special on
PBS; the current DVD of the telecast omits the commentary by
Charles Kuralt but includes additional selections not heard on the CBS telecast. In 1986, CBS telecast
Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening in primetime, in what was then a rare move for a commercial broadcast network, since most primetime classical music specials were relegated to PBS and
A&E by this time. The program was a concert commemorating the re-opening of
Carnegie Hall after its complete renovation. A range of artists were featured, from classical conductor Leonard Bernstein to popular music singer
Frank Sinatra.
Cinderella To compete with NBC, which produced the televised version of the
Mary Martin Broadway production of
Peter Pan, CBS responded with a musical production of
Cinderella, with music by
Richard Rodgers and lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II. Based upon the
classic Charles Perrault fairy tale, it is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical to have been written for television. It was originally broadcast live in color on CBS on March 31, 1957, as a vehicle for
Julie Andrews, who played the title role; that broadcast was seen by over 100 million people. It was subsequently remade by CBS in 1965, with Lesley Ann Warren, Stuart Damon,
Ginger Rogers, and
Walter Pidgeon among its stars; the remake also included the new song "Loneliness of Evening", which was originally composed in 1949 for
South Pacific but was not performed in that musical. This version was rebroadcast several times on CBS into the early 1970s, and is occasionally broadcast on various cable networks to this day; both versions are available on DVD.
National Geographic CBS was also the original broadcast home for the primetime specials produced by the
National Geographic Society. The Geographic series in the U.S. started on CBS in 1964, before moving to ABC in 1973 (the specials subsequently moved to PBS – under the production of Pittsburgh member station WQED – in 1975 and NBC in 1995, before returning to PBS in 2000). The specials have featured stories on many scientific figures such as
Louis Leakey,
Jacques Cousteau, and
Jane Goodall, that not only featured their work but helped make them internationally known and accessible to millions. A majority of the specials were narrated by various actors, notably
Alexander Scourby during the CBS run. The success of the specials led in part to the creation of the
National Geographic Channel, a cable channel launched in January 2001 as a joint venture between the National Geographic Society and
Fox Cable Networks. The specials' distinctive theme music, by
Elmer Bernstein, was also adopted by the National Geographic Channel.
Other notable specials From 1949 to 2002, the
Pillsbury Bake-Off, an annual national cooking contest, was broadcast on CBS as a special. Hosts for the broadcast included
Arthur Godfrey,
Art Linkletter,
Bob Barker,
Gary Collins,
Willard Scott (although under contract with CBS's rival NBC), and
Alex Trebek. The
Miss USA beauty pageant aired on CBS from 1963 to 2002, during a large portion of that period, the telecast was often emceed by the host of one of CBS's game shows including Bob Barker from 1967 to 1987 (at which point Barker, an
animal rights activist who eventually convinced producers of
The Price Is Right to cease offering
fur coats as prizes on the program, quit in a dispute over their use), succeed by
Alan Thicke in 1988,
Dick Clark from 1989 to 1993, and
Bob Goen from 1994 to 1996. The pageant's highest viewership was recorded in the early 1980s when it regularly topped the Nielsen ratings on the week of its broadcast. Viewership dropped sharply throughout the 1990s and 2000s, from an estimated viewership of 20 million to an average of 7 million from 2000 to 2001. In 2002,
Donald Trump (owner of the Miss USA pageant's governing body, the
Miss Universe Organization) brokered a new deal with NBC, giving it half-ownership of the Miss USA, Miss Universe and
Miss Teen USA pageants and moving them to that network as part of an initial five-year contract, which began in 2003 and ended in 2015 after 12 years amid Trump's controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants during the launch of his
2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. On June 1, 1977, it was announced that
Elvis Presley had signed a deal with CBS to appear in a new television special. Under the agreement, CBS would videotape Presley's concerts during the summer of 1977; the special was filmed during Presley's final tour at stops in
Omaha, Nebraska (on June 19) and
Rapid City, South Dakota (on June 21 of that year). CBS aired the special,
Elvis in Concert, on October 3, 1977, nearly two months after Presley died in his
Graceland mansion on August 16. Since its inception in 1978, CBS has been the sole broadcaster of
The Kennedy Center Honors, a two-hour performing arts tribute typically taped and edited in December for later broadcast during the holiday season. ==Stations==