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CBS didn't need a Hail Mary pass to unload its commercial spots in Sunday's Super Bowl after all.

CBS, the broadcaster for this year's Super Bowl, on Friday rejected an ad from ManCrunch.com, a gay dating Web site.

Ratings drop for NBC talk show gave CBS more ad rev -- NBC's 10 p.m. Jay Leno debacle has been good for CBS, according to Eye entertainment prexy Nina Tassler.

Repeats of CBS' flagship comedies "The Big Bang Theory" (3.0 rating/8 share in adults 18-49) and "Two and a Half Men" (2.7/7) were the highest-rated programs of the night by a mile, with a rerun of another CBS series, drama "CSI: Miami" (2.2/6) coming in third.

Cool thinking at the craps table has won a San Diego couple $1 million on the CBS reality television show "The Amazing Race."

A television producer charged with attempting to extort $2 million from U.S. talk-show host David Letterman threatened to write a book about the TV star's affairs with employees, court documents showed on Thursday.

Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.

Mr. Hewitt changed the course of broadcast news by creating the television magazine program for CBS.

TV News: 'Teen Choice Awards' airs quietly on Fox -- An all-repeat lineup, led by a strong outing by "The Big Bang Theory" in its new timeslot, carried CBS to an easy victory in key demos on Monday, a night that saw nothing-special numbers for the "Teen Choice Awards" on Fox.

CBS says that an updated version of the show will debut Oct. 5, with Wayne Brady as host. The network says that the premise of audience members trying to win cash and prizes by making "wacky deals" will be intact.