CBS Inc.

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 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 Songs

CBS Publishing Group
- CBS educational and professional, CBS Magazines, CBS software

In 1982 the company established a tly-owned venture with CBS Fox Video (New Zealand) Ltd., -- CBS/Fox Video () GmbH, Canada CBS/Fox Video (Canada) Ltd. Spain CBS/Fox Video (Espanola) SA (90%) -- CBS/Fox Video French Film Licensing Corp., CBS/Fox Video () 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 Thorn Emi Plc. in 1989).

Principal subsidiaries of CBS Inc. as of 1989 (not including indirectly owned local subsidiaries):
Austria - CBS Records (Kenya) Ltd.

In 1997 the company was renamed CBS trademark.

Also credited as CBS Inc and CBS, Inc.
Consider also Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., if credited that way.