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WJZ meteorologist Bernadette Woods is leaving the CBS-owned station to join a non-profit firm in New Jersey focused on climate change, she said Wednesday night. Woods, who has been with WJZ for seven years, said she will remain at the station helping with the transition for the next month. After that, she, her husband and their two children will be moving to Princeton, N.J., where she will join Climate Central as staff meteorologist. "I'm very excited about the opportunity in Princeton," she said.

CBS Sports Network analyst Evan Washburn took part in a Q&A on Monday. The former Delaware defenseman, who can be followed on Twitter via @EvanWashburn, also answered a few questions about Johns Hopkins, No. 9 Maryland, No. 11 Loyola and No. 16 Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins' streak of 41 consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament ended Sunday night. Was that the right decision by the selection committee? For sure. It was obvious. I did their Army game on Friday night and was able to speak with [coach Dave Pietramala]

I really enjoyed David Zurawik 's column about the Super Bowl game ("For biggest game of the year, CBS again drops the ball," Feb. 4). I'm not a football fan, but did want to support and cheer on the Ravens. I was appalled at the biased coverage of the game. It seemed to me that the announcers were watching another game, one in which the 49ers were Gods and the Ravens weren't even playing. I asked the people around me - are sports commentators always like this? Aren't they supposed to appear to be neutral?

CBS Sports made a good call Sunday in not showing a halftime replay of a gruesome injury to Louisville guard Kevin Ware. The injury took place in the first half of Louisville's Elite Eight matchup with Duke. But the network did show it in slow-motion replay while Ware lay on the court attended to by trainers and medical personnel. To its credit, the network had one of the game announcers warn viewers before they showed it. I saw the play live, and I did not notice Ware's fall.

Sunday's Super Bowl was the most viewed show in U.S. television history, according to Nielsen figures provided by CBS. A total audience of 164.1 million saw the Ravens victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The average audience for Sunday's game was 108.4 million viewers, which was the third largest average audience behind the last two Super Bowls. Total viewership is generally considered the benchmark figure. Here's the CBS release: The 2012 NFL season concluded with another television milestone as Super Bowl XLVII on CBS reached a total audience of 164.1 million viewers (6:32-8:41 and 9:11-10:47 PM, ET)

LOS ANGELES -- CBS Inc. Chief Executive Laurence A. Tisch and QVC Inc. Chairman Barry Diller are negotiating to combine their companies in a deal valued at roughly $2 billion, sources close to the talks said yesterday.Under the terms being discussed, CBS would acquire the smaller QVC in a stock swap that would follow a cash payout to CBS shareholders. Mr. Diller would assume control of the combined company, with the 71-year-old Mr. Tisch agreeing to retire upon completion of the merger.The deal would create an entertainment/home shopping conglomerate with strong ties to the cable TV industry and the emerging information superhighway -- and take some investor pressure off of both companies.

PITTSBURGH -- Westinghouse Electric Corp. is expected to announce an agreement today to acquire CBS Inc. for about $5 billion, ending weeks of negotiations, people close to the talks said.Westinghouse, which was believed last week to be planning a bid of $81 a share for CBS, plans to make the announcement in New York, where its Group W broadcasting unit and CBS are based.An agreement would put Westinghouse in the lead to land CBS, but several other bidders with deep pockets could emerge now that Walt Disney Co. is snapping up Capital Cities/ABC Inc. for $19 billion in cash and stock, analysts said.

As if the swoon of less-than-expected ratings hasn't been bad enough, almost a third of the 1,700 CBS employees in Nagano have come down with the flu. Add in some biblical style plagues and a little pestilence and things would be just perfect.Through the first nine nights, CBS is pulling in a 16.4 for its prime-time offerings, which, in the context of what networks do these days, is pretty good. Consider that NBC won the last non-Olympic week, Jan. 26-Feb. 1, with a 10.4/17, and you would think that CBS folks would be pretty happy.

A year after a flawed 60 Minutes report about the military career of George W. Bush forced the resignation of longtime anchorman Dan Rather, CBS placed the future of its struggling news division yesterday in the hands of Sean McManus, the president of CBS Sports. McManus, 50, will officially take over CBS News from the embattled Andrew Heyward on Nov. 7, while continuing as president of CBS Sports. The Duke University graduate, who inherits a news division ranked behind ABC and NBC, steps into his new job at a time when network television, faced with competition from cable stations and the Internet, is attempting to redefine how news is covered.

The bodies of a man and a woman bounce in slow motion as blast after blast of shotgun pellets tear into them. And the blasts and the bouncing seem to go on and on in the bloody den of this home in Beverly Hills.Beverly Hills? Blood? Murder?Why it must be what we've all been waiting for -- another reconstruction of the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez at the hands of their sons Lyle and Erik.Fox did its version of the murders and trials in a movie last month that drew flies in the Nielsen ratings.

Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared on 'Face the Nation' with Bob Schieffer on CBS Sunday morning. Ayanbadejo was part of a panel discussion on same-sex marriage. Read the complete transcript below. Bob Schieffer: Good morning, again, this week the Supreme Court takes up two big cases on same-sex marriage, whether the voters can say no to same-sex marriage as they did in California with proposition 8, and whether the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and woman, is constitutional.

The CBS Sports Network does some drum beating for March Madness Monday night with " The Miracles : The 1988 Kansas Jayhawks," a documentary about how an underdog team won the national championship that year. Known as Danny and the Miracles, because of star Danny Manning, Kansas upset the Oklahoma Sooners for the championship. There are a couple of local angles worth noting in the film that marks the 25th anniversary of that championship. One of the producers is Tamiko Bullock, a graduate of Morgan State University.

I really enjoyed David Zurawik 's column about the Super Bowl game ("For biggest game of the year, CBS again drops the ball," Feb. 4). I'm not a football fan, but did want to support and cheer on the Ravens. I was appalled at the biased coverage of the game. It seemed to me that the announcers were watching another game, one in which the 49ers were Gods and the Ravens weren't even playing. I asked the people around me - are sports commentators always like this? Aren't they supposed to appear to be neutral?

Joe Flacco must have been a strong enough draw Monday night to leave David Letterman wanting more Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl mojo. The "Late Show with David Letterman" Wednesday announced that Ravens coach John Harbaugh will be on Thursday night. Here's the release from CBS: John Harbaugh, head coach of the Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens, will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN Thursday, Feb. 7 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  John Harbaugh and his younger brother Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, became the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in the NFL back in 2011 and made more headlines this year when they became the first brothers in NFL history to face each other in a Super Bowl, one which quickly became dubbed the “Harbaugh Bowl.”  The Ravens went on to defeat the 49ers Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII by a score of 34-31, giving the Ravens their second championship title in franchise history.

Deborah Norville says she was "devastated" when she lost her job as co-host of NBC's "Today" show.But she's back as co-host of another network show starting tonight, and this one's in prime time.Just when you thought prime-time TV couldn't possibly have room for any more newsmagazines, along comes "America Tonight," a weekly CBS newsmagazine with Norville and Dana King as hosts. The CBS News show will debut at 9 tonight on WBAL (Channel 11) and air every Wednesday until Sept. 7.If the show does well in the ratings, it will return as a midseason replacement in 1995, according to Joe Peyronnin, vice president for CBS News.

CBS enjoyed a long period of dominance in TV news, and also has a rich history on the entertainment side. Both aspects will be celebrated in "CBS: The First 50 Years" (9 p.m.-11 p.m., WJZ, Channel 13). Those those taking part include Walter Cronkite, "60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt, Dan Rather, Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Larry Hagman, Mary Tyler Moore and the Smothers Brothers. And there's much more, including that clip of Lucy and Ethel in the candy factory.At a glance"Spin City" (8 p.m.-8: 30 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2)