This article has a real world counterpart outside of Left Behind.

This subject has a counterpart in the real world. However, information in this article comes from the fictional universe of the Left Behind franchise.

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television and radio network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company 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).

In the Left Behind series, CBS is one of many television networks that were taken over by the Global Community as far as communications media is concerned.