New York - CBS has announced plans to discontinue its CSTV brand, which will become known as the CBS College Sports Network as of next month. CBS Sports will also begin developing proprietary programming for the cable network. CBS acquired CSTV in January 2006; in addition to its cable TV network, the company operates over 200 official collegiate athletics websites, and streams audio and video of more than 10,000 college sporting events annually.

New York - CBS's (NYSE: CBS) CSTV and CBS Sports on Friday announced the launch of Fans Only, a social networking platform that lets sports fans create their own sites with news from thousands of sources, virtual tailgates, blogs and game picks. Fans can free create pages to follow their favorite teams, adding multimedia content such as streaming video highlights, statistics, polls, rankings and chats.

New York - CBS (NYSE: CBS) announced this week that it will fold its College Sports Television Networks (CSTV) businesses into the operations of CBS Sports, to include CSTV.com and its network of over 200 official collegiate athletics websites. Day-to-day operations at CSTV will now be overseen by Tony Petitti, EVP and executive producer for CBS Sports. CSTV founder Brian Bedol will stay on during the transition, and remain a senior advisor to CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves. CBS acquired CSTV in 2005 for $325 million.

New York - CBS announced on Tuesday that it has acquired MaxPreps, a nationwide online high school sports network.

Los Angeles - Virtual mobile network operator Amp'd Mobile announced on Tuesday that it has signed agreements with the NBA and CSTV to broadcast live pro and college basketball games to mobile phones.