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CBS’s NCIS finished ahead of Fox’s Glee in the 8 p.m. timeslot for the first time this month last night, and that helped CBS to its first Tuesday night win of this February sweeps. NCIS posted a 4.4 rating among viewers 18-49 last night, up 19% from a 3.7 last week and pushing just ahead of Glee‘s 4.3. For the night CBS averaged a 3.4 overnight rating and 9 share, up 13% from a 3.0/8 last week.

CBS and Netflix have signed a two-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement that will allow subscribers of the web service to stream content from CBS’ library. Shows covered include Medium and Flashpoint along with older series like Frasier, Family Ties, Star Trek, the original Hawaii Five-O, Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone.

Charlie Sheen’s antics are catching up, and now CBS is paying for them. The troubled actor’s unscheduled hiatus into rehab prompted the network to air a rerun of Two and a Half Men last night, causing CBS to slip to second place for the night among viewers 18-49. This was the first time this February sweeps that CBS didn’t win Monday night. Last night’s Men rerun — the only repeat in CBS’s lineup — posted a 3.0 among 18-49s. That’s not bad for a repeat, but off 29% from a 4.2 for an original episode last week.

CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who was beaten and sexually assaulted by a Cairo mob in the frenzied aftermath of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, was released from a New York hospital Tuesday and is resting at her home in Washington, the network said.

There was nothing suspect about the premiere of CBS’s spinoff Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior last night. The new Forest Whitaker drama posted a 3.3 rating among viewers 18-49 in the 10 p.m. hour, winning its timeslot and placing No. 3 for the night behind Fox’s American Idol (8.1) and ABC’s Modern Family (4.3).

CBS’s Two and a Half Men will resume shooting Feb. 28, exactly a month after the show went on hiatus with Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he was entering rehab, according to a  studio insider.

Boosted by performances from hot artists like Eminem and Lady Gaga, CBS’s Grammy Awards surged to its best viewership in at least a decade last night. The special averaged 27.6 million total viewers from 8 to 11 p.m., bettering last year’s ceremony by 4%.

Eminem and Rihanna performed their song Love the Way you Lie at the Grammys last night and, well, let’s just say someone at CBS is going to have #%&@ing difficult conversation with his boss today. The censors let slip an instance of an “F-bomb” during the performance.

Both CBS and Katie Couric appear open to a new deal that would keep her at the network’s news division beyond her current five-year deal as anchor of  the CBS Evening News, which expires at the end of May. Wall Street Journal subscribers can read the story here.

Association of National Advertisers chief Bob Liodice claimed a certain level of victory with the organization’s efforts to eliminate the decades-old fees ABC, CBS and NBC had charged for the physical work of inserting ads in the system before they run. Liodice said Thursday that CBS and NBC have dropped the so-called network-integration fees, while ABC still charges “on occasion.”

VALENCIA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a security guard on the Los Angeles County set of the CBS television show “NCIS” has died after being struck by a van whose […]

The network, which is shaking up its management, has asked anchor Katie Couric to stay on through the 2012 elections — for significantly less money than her original $15 million deal.

Two of the most prominent television news anchors covering the protests in Egypt this week, Brian Williams and Katie Couric, have exited the country. The anchors’ departures came on a day of increasing violence and intimidation directed at journalists in Egypt.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television’s top-rated scripted series, “NCIS,” will be back this fall for a ninth season. CBS says it’s renewing the drama that stars Mark Harmon and an […]

In a statement Wednesday, the Two and a Half Men star thanked his bosses, CBS chief Les Moonves and Warner Bros.’ TV division President Bruce Rosenblum, for “their concern and support.” It was issued hours after the Los Angeles Fire Department released a 5-minute recording of a 911 call.

A 30-second spot, which can be seen on the union’s YouTube channel, is intended to pressure CBS into airing the original ad, which was to appear on the CBS College Sports Network on Feb. 5 during the NFLPA All-Star Game.

CBS has rejected the “Let Us Play” ad from the National Football League Players Association that was to air Feb. 5, on the CBS College Sports Network, the union says.

The NFL collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on March 4, and as both sides remain entrenched, a lockout now seems all but inevitable. In a worst-case scenario, the entire 2011-12 campaign would be scuttled, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue and sending media buyers scrambling for replacements. Indeed, the NFL plays such a critical role in the TV market that even the loss of a handful of games could be catastrophic to the spring upfront.

CBS’s new daily daytime talk show hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini to return for a second season.

A group of syndie execs examine both sides of issues including short-run tests for new shows; whether barter-based deals would diminish as cash starts to free up; what the slim pickings in new shows this year means; and whether there are obvious replacements on the horizon for Regis Philbin, Oprah Winfrey and Mary Hart.

Flashpoint has become the first of the Canadian imports to land a U.S. syndication deal in a complex arrangement with CBS and Ion that will allow both Flashpoint’s current U.S. network home, CBS, and its new one, Ion, to air originals of the procedural about an elite tactical unit.

CBS has been rapidly expanding its local online and mobile efforts by integrating the efforts of its O&Os and radio stations into 15 regional portals, says Ezra Kucharz, president of local digital media. He explains how mobile devices, tablets, check-in services and other developments are creating a robust local digital market.

Entertainment President Nina Tassler says the network is worried about Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen “on a personal level” but insists “he does his job extremely well.”

In their first week, the new CBS Early Show team earned 8% fewer viewers than the veteran team they replaced did in the same week last year, final Nielsen numbers show. But they didn’t suffer a mass exodus.