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CBS Corporation is an American mass media corporation focused on commercial broadcasting , ___MASK5___ , and television production , with most of its operations in the United States . The president , chief executive and executive chairman of the ___MASK54___ is Leslie Moonves . Sumner Redstone , owner of National Amusements , is CBS ' s majority shareholder and serves as chairman emeritus . The ___MASK54___ began trading on the NYSE on January 3 , 2006 . Until then , the corporation was known as Viacom , and is the legal successor to said ___MASK54___ . A new ___MASK54___ , keeping the Viacom name , was spun off from CBS . CBS , not Viacom , retains control of over - the - air television ( CBS , CW ) and radio broadcasting , TV production and distribution , ___MASK5___ , pay - cable , basic cable ( Pop ), and recording formerly owned by the larger ___MASK54___ . CBS has its headquarters in the CBS Building ( colloquially called " Black Rock "), Midtown , Manhattan , New York City , United States . CBS ___MASK49___ City is a ___MASK49___ studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard , at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue . Designed by architect William Pereira , it is one of two CBS ___MASK49___ studios in southern California  the other is CBS Studio Center , located in the Studio City section of the San Fernando Valley , which houses additional production facilities and the network ' s Los Angeles local ___MASK49___ operations ( KCBS and KCAL ). Since 1961 , it has served as the master control facility for CBS ' s west coast ___MASK49___ network operations ; prior to that , it was based at Columbia Square . The ___MASK54___ ' s West Coast radio production center is located more than a mile away to the south , in the Miracle Mile neighborhood . The ___MASK36___ of New York , often called New York ___MASK36___ or simply New York , is the most populous ___MASK36___ in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York ___MASK36___ is also the most densely populated major ___MASK36___ in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of New York , the ___MASK36___ is the center of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power ___MASK36___ , New York ___MASK36___ exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international ___MASK39___ and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Herbie , the ___MASK90___ Bug ( or Herbie the Matchmaker ) is a 1982 American television series based on Walt Disney Productions ' `` Herbie '' film series ( 1968 - 1980 ) about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own which aired on CBS from March 17 , 1982 to April 14 , 1982 . It was cancelled after five episodes and , for the next fifteen years , would mark Herbie ' s last new appearance in either television or film until his return in the 1997 film The ___MASK90___ Bug . The show ' s theme song `` Herbie , My Best Friend '' was performed by the star , Dean Jones . The ___MASK90___ Bug ( sometimes referred to as Herbie the ___MASK90___ Bug ) is a 1968 American comedy film and the first in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions that starred an anthropomorphic pearl - white , fabric - sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie . It was based on the 1961 book " Car , Boy , Girl " by Gordon Buford . Volkswagen Group , or Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft , shortly VW AG , is a German multinational automotive manufacturing ___MASK54___ headquartered in Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony , Germany . It designs , manufactures and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles , motorcycles , engines , and turbomachinery and offers related services including financing , leasing and fleet management . In 2016 , it was the largest automaker in the world with sales 10 . 3 million units . It has maintained the largest market share in Europe for over two decades . It ranked seventh in the 2016 Fortune Global 500 list of the world ' s largest companies . Herbie the ___MASK90___ Bug is a sentient anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle , a character that is featured in several Walt Disney motion pictures starting with the 1968 feature film " The ___MASK90___ Bug ". He has a mind of his own and is capable of driving himself , and is also a serious contender in auto racing competitions . Throughout most of the franchise , Herbie is distinguished by red , white and blue racing stripes from front to back bumper , a racing - style number " 53 " on the front luggage compartment lid , doors , and engine lid , and a yellow - on - black ' 63 California license plate with the lettering " OFP 857 ". CBS Studio Center is a ___MASK49___ and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley . It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land , with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site . The lot , which is not open to the public for tours , has 18 sound stages from 7 , 000 to , of office space , and 223 dressing rooms . Wolfsburg is the fifth largest ___MASK36___ in the German state of Lower Saxony . Located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig (" Brunswick "), it lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin . The CBS ___MASK64___ in New York City , also known as Black Rock , is the headquarters of CBS Corporation . Located at 51 West 52nd Street at the corner of Sixth Avenue ( Avenue of the Americas ), the Eero Saarinen designed ___MASK64___ opened in 1965 . It is 38 stories and tall with approximately rentable of space . The interior and furnishings were designed by Saarinen and Florence Knoll . Volkswagen (- ; shortened to VW ) is a German automaker founded on 4 January 1937 by the German Labour Front , headquartered in Wolfsburg , Germany . It is the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group and is the largest automaker worldwide currently . The German Labour Front ( DAF ) was the National Socialist ___MASK4___ union ___MASK37___ which replaced the various independent ___MASK4___ unions of the Weimar Republic after ___MASK57___ ' s rise to power . After the Nazi - organized 1933 May Day labor celebrations , the Third Reich not only nationalized all ___MASK4___ unions , but decreed union membership as a mandatory duty , forcing every worker to join the state - operated union . A ___MASK49___ network is a telecommunications network for distribution of ___MASK49___ program content , whereby a central operation provides programming to many ___MASK49___ stations or pay ___MASK49___ providers . Until the mid - 1980s , ___MASK49___ programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks . Many early ___MASK49___ networks ( such as the BBC , NBC or CBC ) evolved from earlier radio networks . The CBS Broadcast Center is a ___MASK49___ and radio production facility located in New York City . It is CBS ' s main East Coast production center , much as ___MASK49___ City in Los Angeles is the West Coast hub . CBS ( an initialism of the network ' s former name , the Columbia Broadcasting System ) is an American commercial broadcast ___MASK49___ network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation . The ___MASK54___ is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City ( at the CBS Broadcast Center ) and Los Angeles ( at CBS Television City and the CBS Studio Center ). ___MASK27___ ( also known as car racing , motor racing or ___MASK41___ racing ) is a sport involving the racing of automobiles for competition .