Mutual Broadcasting System

The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) is an American television network that is the flagship property of Catching Sound Media

The network was launched on September 16, 2018, with "Welcome Back to MBS" as the network's first program.

The network was a revival of the old Mutual Broadcasting System, a defunct radio network owned by Westwood One.

History
Catching Sound Media announced that the company is reviving the Mutual Broadcasting System. In the fall of 2015, Catching Sound Media announced The MBS Project, and attempt to launch the 6th television network in the United States. President Finley Mason said in a press release regarding the project:

"Catching Sound Media is a ever-growing media company, from our inception in the summer of 2012, we've had a vision of being not only a content creator, but a content distributor, and we've done that through our digital brands and cable networks we've have been built off of, but now it's time to take that nationally and internationally, with the launch of this new united network. With the launch, we hope to build a brand through the network's News, Sports, and entertainment programming."

In September of 2015, Catching Sound Media began purchasing independent stations in the largest 15 markets, and began using MBS as a temporary brand. In December of 2015, Catching Sound Media announced that MBS would launch in the fall of 2018.

The network was launched on September 16, 2018, with an announcement:

"Welcome back to the Mutual Broadcasting System. Do you remember me, Larry King?"

In early 2019, Catching Sound Media purchased Arizona NewsChannel and beIN Sports, and renamed them MBS News Channel and MBS Sports Channel respectively. Catching Sound Media merged MBS, MBS News Channel, and MBS Sports into MBS Corporation.

Stations
MBS has 15 O&O's and 198 affiliates nationwide.

News
MBS' morning and evening news programs are Sunrise and Eyewitness News respectively.

Daytime
Its daytime schedule consists of talk shows and soap operas. It's most famous soap opera is Flowerbed Way.

Primetime
Its primetime schedule mainly consists of comedy and drama series produced by MGM Television and ABC Studios.