CBS Watch
{{Short description|American magazine}}
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| editor = Rachel Clarke
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| category = Celebrity, Lifestyle, Fashion, Travel
| frequency = 6 issues per year
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| publisher = CBS and Manifest
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| total_circulation = 200,000
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| firstdate = January 2006
| finaldate = November/December 2022
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| company = Paramount Global
| country = United States
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| language = English
| website = {{URL|cbswatchmagazine.com}}
| issn = 2151-0822
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CBS Watch!, also called Watch! Magazine, was a bi-monthly magazine commissioned by Paramount Global and published by Manifest.{{clarify|reason=What is it?|date=May 2023}} The glossy print magazine, covered celebrity, fashion, beauty, travel, culture and wellness through articles mainly about actors and hosts involved with programming on the CBS broadcast network and predecessor brands like Showtime, Pop TV, The CW, and Smithsonian Channel. The magazine was published bimonthly in the United States with both newsstand and subscription distribution. Post COVID outbreak, the magazine's frequency was reduced to quarterly. The last issue was published in November/December 2022.{{Cite web |title=Get digital access to back issues CBS Watch! Magazine {{!}} Magzter.com |url=https://www.magzter.com/US/ccg-ventures/CBS-Watch!-Magazine/Celebrity/All-Issues |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Magzter |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Roche |first=Eddie |date=2024-09-10 |title=Jeremy Murphy Shares The Stories Behind His New Book, Too Good To Fact Check! |url=https://fashionweekdaily.com/jeremy-murphy-shares-the-stories-behind-his-new-book-too-good-to-fact-check/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Daily Front Row |language=en}} CBS Watch had a circulation number of approximately 200,000 copies per edition. It was created by former CBS Vice President Jeremy Murphy, who left in 2016 to start his own company 360bespoke.{{Cite web | url=http://wwd.com/business-news/media/jeremy-murphy-cbs-360bespoke-10449703/ | title=Longtime CBS Veteran Launches Boutique Communications Firm | date=10 June 2016 }}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-09 |title=How Jeremy Murphy’s Latest Book Redefines Media Commentary - |url=https://parkmagazineny.com/too-good-to-fact-check-flying-the-skies-with-stars-scotch-and-scandal/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |language=en-US}}
History
The magazine launched in January 2006 as a quarterly and increased to six times a year in 2007.{{Cite web |last=Learmonth |first=Michael |date=2005-08-12 |title=Eye drafts glossy mag |url=https://variety.com/2005/scene/markets-festivals/eye-drafts-glossy-mag-1117927375/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=CBS to Launch Watch Magazine in 2006 |url=https://www.writerswrite.com/cbs-to-launch-watch-magazine-8262005188 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Writers Write |language=en}}
In 2010, a pictorial shot by Patrick Demarchelier featuring The Big Bang Theory actress Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting received national media coverage in USA Today{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Cindy|title=Kaley Cuoco admits to secret relationship with co-star Johnny Galecki|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/09/kaley-cuoco-admits-to-secret-relationship-with-co-star-johnny-galecki/ |date=29 September 2010|publisher=USA Today}} and on Entertainment Tonight.[http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/patrick-demarchelier-kaley-cuoco-for-cbs-watch-magazine-on-entertainment-tonight-video-NKFd-wwlqY4-17654-1.html "Kaley Cuoco for CBS Watch! Magazine on Entertainment Tonight"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161221/http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/patrick-demarchelier-kaley-cuoco-for-cbs-watch-magazine-on-entertainment-tonight-video-NKFd-wwlqY4-17654-1.html# |date=2015-09-24 }}. First Post.
Watch! has conducted photo shoots around the world, including in Italy, Ireland, London and Paris. A photo from the Paris shoot featuring Cote DePablo walking two French poodles on Avenue Montaigne was reprinted on the cover of Women's Wear Daily{{cite news|last1=Wicks|first1=Amy|title=CBS Turns Eye to Fashion With Watch Magazine |url=http://www.wwd.com/media-news/media-features/cbs-turns-eye-to-fashion-with-watch-6166549|date=15 August 2012}} during 2012 New York Fashion Week.
On June 3, 2014, Watch was the subject of a national televised special on the TVGN network, whose producers followed editors during two photo shoots in London the previous December. The magazine photographed Under the Dome star Rachelle Lefevre at The Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire in the English countryside, then NCIS star Michael Weatherly at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London. The behind the scenes footage formed the basis for a 30-minute special called Watch TV.
Also in September 2014, Watch! began publishing monthly specially themed issues devoted to a single topic exclusively for newsstand audiences. Among the special issues are an NCIS edition as well as ones devoted to Star Trek, the anniversary of The Wizard of Oz on CBS, and The Academy of Country Music Awards.
The magazine commissioned British violinist Charlie Siem to create a musical score for marketing and promotional purposes in 2014. Siem recorded a five-minute song called "Canopy" in a church in London with the 22-member English Chamber Orchestra. The magazine commissioned a second five-minute behind-the-scenes video that featured Siem and the orchestra performing the piece in its entirety.[http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/his-own-tune-7582404 "Charlie Siem’s Busy Year"]. from WWD issue 03/12/2014{{cite news|last1=Elliot|first1=Stuart|title=With a Classical Violinist's Composing Debut, Watch Magazine Adds Music to Its Content|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/with-a-classical-violinists-composing-debut-watch-magazine-adds-music-to-its-content.html |date=February 24, 2014|work=The New York Times}}[http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/cbs-watch-magazine-has-a-soundtrack-and-its-classical/267182?red=kw "Magazine Has a Soundtrack, and It's Classical"]. Fishbowl NY on Adweek.
In 2024, Jeremy Murphy published a book about his experience editing the magazine.{{Cite web |last=Marks |first=Lisa |date=2024-10-06 |title=Q&A: Ten for The TEN with Jeremy Murphy |url=https://lisamarkswrites.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ten-for-the-ten-with-jeremy |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=The TEN}}{{Cite web |date=2024-08-26 |title=Jeremy Murphy – The New York PR man too outrageous to be fact-checked |url=https://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/jeremy-murphy-the-new-york-pr-man-too-outrageous-to-be-fact-checked/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=SO IT GOES - John Fleming's blog |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Sayej |first=Nadja |title=Jeremy Murphy On Top Fashion Moments In Book, ‘Too Good To Fact Check’ |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadjasayej/2024/09/25/jeremy-murphy-on-top-fashion-moments-in-book-too-good-to-fact-check/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Forbes |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Too Good to Fact Check: Flying the Skies with Stars, Scotch, and Scandal (Mostly Mine) |url=https://posthillpress.com/book/too-good-to-fact-check-flying-the-skies-with-stars-scotch-and-scandal-mostly-mine |access-date=2025-03-10 |language=en}}
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