The 20 Biggest Mess-Ups/Mistakes in CBS History

[TMC1982]

One of the biggest screw-ups involving CBS that first and foremost comes to my mind is allowing the NFL to leave (after being on CBS for 38 years) for the upstart Fox network in late 1993. This gave Fox a ton and I mean a ton of credibility and severely crippled CBS for the mid-part of the '90s at least. Without the NFL, it became much harder for CBS to promote their shows. More to the point, CBS' affiliates who were wary w/o the NFL for the foreseeable future moved over to Fox beginning in 1994.


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[Peter Parker]

Somebody in hat thred called putting all In The Family on the Aira mistake. Even if you do not care fr it was one of the biggest hits in TV history. I wish that some of my mistakes worked out that well.