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Stockpickr Staff	<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10601873/1/are-rite-aid-macys-bankruptcy-bound.html" target="_blank">Read more here.</a>	Love	September 23, 2009
barrons3	The mass media company was among the most active names on the Nyse Tuesday.	Love	May 13, 2009
j.necci	pdtomuch	Hate	April 16, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"Down here at $4, I can't tell you to stay away from it, but it is speculative at this point."	Love	March 24, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "Down here at $4, I can't tell you to stay away from it, but it is speculative at this point."	Love	March 23, 2009
gary m shaw	media will be the first to come back	Love	March 08, 2009
barrons3	CBS (CBS) ... what the heck? Three dollars? Wasn't that in the $20s? Alcoa (AA) was in the $30s and $40s forever. Now it is at $6.	Love	March 05, 2009
barrons3	One was CBS (CBS), which slashed its quarterly common payout 81%, to a nickel a share from 27 cents. The company posted a record loss of $11.7 billion in 2008, owing to huge advertising declines at its television, radio and outdoor-display units. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves called the dividend cut "prudent," but noted that CBS "continues to produce strong cash flow, and we have returned $5.5 billion of that cash to shareholders in just three years as a stand-alone company" (it split from Viacom ). Moonves said this move "will further strengthen our financial flexibility to meet our debt obligations." He added that CBS' 4% yield is "at the forefront of the media industry." Fitch Ratings sees the payout cut as a credit positive because it could result in over $1 billion in additional free cash flow over the next two years. Fitch says that cash, coupled with CBS' existing cash balances, should give the company the ability to repay $1.4 billion of senior notes maturing in 2010 and $1 billion more in 2011 without relying on external re-sources -- unless it wants to, should credit markets recover by then.	Love	February 21, 2009
barrons3	Which dividends are in danger? The nearby table, Too Good to Be Paid?, includes 10 prominent stocks with high dividend yields that may be in jeopardy. The companies include General Electric, CBS and Alcoa . They have high payout ratios or nonmeaningful ratios because they are projected to lose money. These 10 stocks, many of which are down sharply in the past year, could rebound in 2009, but investors shouldn't buy them for their seemingly attractive dividends.	Love	February 14, 2009
barrons3	And in case you’re wondering, Finerman says to avoid CBS [CBS] and the N.Y. Times [NYT]. She suggests CBS may have to cut their dividend and "the Times may have to cut further.”	Love	February 11, 2009
barrons3	Or if you’re looking for a stock to short, Grreenfield suggests CBS [CBS] and News Corp [NWS].	Love	February 04, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"This is problematic due to its ownership structure. Many of these media companies have come down a lot and have been a terrible place to invest."	Love	January 22, 2009
Jonock	Over sold. 8.91	Love	January 05, 2009
barrons3	If you’re looking for trades Greenfield recommends long Viacom [VIA] or Discovery Communications [DISCA] as the big media winners for ’09. And he says you can pair that with a short CBS [CBS].	Love	December 24, 2008
jibarra	stock price has dropped so much	Hate	November 27, 2008
barrons3	When Warren Buffett says stocks are cheap, or Jeremy Grantham or Steve Leuthold or Jeremy Siegel, it's very heartening. You just want to go out there and buy cheap stocks like CBS (CBS) and Williams-Sonoma (WSM) and Ann Taylor (ANN) and Talbots (TLB).	Love	November 13, 2008
barrons3	He said that advertising dollars are way down. He told viewers he wants to upgrade media names like CBS(CBS), Disney(DIS), News Corp.(NWS) and General Electric(GE), but advertising and consumer dependency are difficult to monetize at this time.	Love	November 05, 2008
franklara	cheap	Hate	October 28, 2008
High Dividends	11.48%	Love	October 21, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "I say CVS Caremark , the drugstore, is fabulous, but CBS, the media company, is just the wrong stock for this environment."	Love	October 17, 2008
barrons3	We saw Sumner Redstone margined out of some CBS (CBS) and Viacom (VIA) -- can you believe where that CBS has gone? And we heard from Doug Kass about a couple of liquidations that I believe will clear up the infrastructure situation, as the hedge funds I hear that are out are in that cohort.	Love	October 16, 2008
High Dividends	7.0%	Love	September 30, 2008
High Dividends	Paris wrote Confessions of an Heiress book, published by Fireside Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, owned by CBS Corporation.	Love	August 25, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "This is problematic. The company needs more growth, but it has a nice yield. It's a tough one."	Love	August 07, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "This is problematic. The company needs more growth, but it has a nice yield. It's a tough one."	Love	August 03, 2008
minioni	Doing terrible	Hate	July 07, 2008
chu22451	irresponsible	Hate	May 07, 2008
barrons2	I think CBS is too tethered to radio, says DiClemente. And on the TV side their shows have been lousy. Their business presents a lot of questions.	Love	April 30, 2008
High Dividends	5.5	Love	April 16, 2008
barrons2	CBS may be a slow-growth story, but it probably trades at a marked discount to the sum of its parts, which could be worth at least $35 a share. CBS's 84-year-old chairman, Sumner Redstone, is eager to reward shareholders.	Love	January 26, 2008