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CBS NEWS PRODUCTIONS/CBS EYE TOO PRODUCTIONS

August 2004

CBS NEWS PRODUCTIONS/CBS EYE TOO PRODUCTIONS

DESCRIPTION: The production companies within CBS News that create and distribute a diverse mix of original nonfiction and reality-style programming for domestic and international markets, including network and cable television, home video, DVD, audiobooks and in-flight, as well as schools and libraries. CBS News Productions and CBS Eye Too Productions produce programs across a wide spectrum of genres, from science to lifestyle to entertainment.

SELECTED RECENT PRODUCTIONS: "Survivor: Back from the Outback," "Survivor: Countdown to Africa," "Survivor: Back from Africa" and "CBS HealthWatch" (CBS Television Network); "Biography," "Who Killed Laci Peterson?" and "The Point" (A&E); "Criminal" (MTV); "Behind the Music" (VH1); "TV Land Legends: The 60 MINUTES Interviews" (TV Land); "Be Your Own Hero: Call to Duty" (Lifetime); "Conspiracy of Secrets" (Showtime); "Dead Reckoning," "Horrors of Hussein," "Sons of Saddam," "History Undercover" and "History Alive" (History Channel); "Burning Questions: The Pioneer Hotel Fire" (Court TV); "On the Inside" (Discovery); "Inside UA Flight 93," "America's New War" and "Miami Morgue" (TLC); "Deadly Highways" and "Competitive Cheerleading Revealed" (Travel); "Medical Profile: Joe Namath" (Discovery Health); and "Art and Outrage" (TRIO/USA).

RECENT HOME VIDEO: "America at War: The Battle for Iraq/A View from the Frontlines" (DVD distributed with Simon & Schuster book); "Let Freedom Ring" and "George W. Bush: Election and Inauguration" (MPI); "United States History: Post-World War II" series of educational videos (Schlessinger Educational Media); and "Walter Cronkite Remembers" (Reader's Digest).

SELECTED PAST PROJECTS: "Countdown to the Grammys" (King World syndication); "A Century of Country" 13-part series and 52 interstitials (TNN); "Legendary Hangouts" and "Big Eats" (Food Network); "Vital Breakthroughs" series and "Discovery Health News" minutes (Discovery Health); "L.A. Story: Bank Heists" and "Travel Greats" (Travel); "This Week in History," "The 20th Century with Mike Wallace" and "Vietnam: On the Frontlines" (History Channel).

AWARDS: 2002 Emmy Award for "Inside UA Flight 93" (TLC) and 1998 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "Charles Kuralt's Spring," a collaboration with Simon & Schuster.

VICE PRESIDENT: Margery Baker-Riker

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Press Contact: Sandy Genelius 212/975-7525 smg@cbsnews.com

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