Overview

CBS 11 is part of the CBS Television Stations Group, which reaches 35% of the U.S. TV households with stations in 8 of the top 10 markets. Our stations deliver advertisers' messages to more than 38 million homes. The "CBS is Always On" initiative extends CBS 11's local market reach beyond TV to broadband Web and wireless content distribution 24/7.

CBS 11’s goal is to be Dallas’s online portal and play an important part of users’ daily lives with news, weather, traffic and must-know community information through the unique integration of both local TV and the Web.

This unprecedented commitment at CBS 11 reinforces our position as Dallas’s indispensable source for easily accessible on-demand news & information.

For information on national advertising opportunities, click here.

Ad Placements

CBS 11's "Always On" strategy empowers our audiences to watch, read and experience CBS 11 and CBS 11 sponsors' media however, whenever and wherever they want - maximizing message exposure, recognition and brand awareness. Specifically, we tap into people's lives in times and places previously out of reach for video-based message exposure.

Ad Specifications

The following table is an overview of each placement and their corresponding specifications.

Ad Unit Name Size (pixels) Max File Weight Animation
Image1 Flash1
Messaging Unit 300x250 20K 30K 15 secs max; 3x looping
Skyscraper 160x600 20K 30K 15 secs max; 3x looping
Leaderboard 728x90 20K 30K 15 secs max; 3x looping
Home Page Side Bar 300x40 15K n/a static only
Section Sponsor Button 330x25 15K n/a static only
Homepage Center Bar 355x40 15K n/a static only
Video Sponsor Button 130x10 15K n/a static only
Video :10 or :15 sec clickable video spot runs before video news clip. Sponsors can also provide a JPEG (300 x 250) that can appear at completion of the newsclip.
NOTE: Client submits a 300x250. Video Player resizes to 300x225


Rich Media Guidelines
  •  GIF or JPEG to be served as the "default" for non-Flash users
  •  Flash MX (6) and Flash MX 2004 (7) file formats accepted
  •  All creative must function uniformly on both Mac and PC platforms as well as multiple versions of Netscape, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
  •  Submission for third party tags: Please send standard third party tags (HREF, IMG SRC) or rich media tags (IFRAME/JavaScript)


Approved Rich Media Technologies
  •  CheckM8
  •  Eyeblaster
  •  Eyewonder
  •  Klipmart
  •  Pointroll
  •  Unicast
  •  Viewpoint

Contact Us

CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group provides a dedicated multimedia sales support team which profiles markets and monitors campaigns in order to insure the effectiveness of every sponsor's advertising campaign. Please contact Brent Franks at cbfranks@cbs.com or 214-245-5626 to learn more about available local advertising and sponsorship opportunities. For national opportunities, please contact Melissa Anderson at MAnderson@cbs.com or 212-975-7177.