Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) started making an impact on eco-sustainability over a year ago by announcing how green the PC retailer would become. Low and behold, it recently showed up in first place at the first ranking of the Corporate Sustainability Index (CSI) Benchmark Report. Dell was rated along with a slew of other companies from the computer hardware, software, professional services, and network and telecommunications sectors. In other words, a pretty large field.

CBS (NYSE: CBS) programmed its Q1 earnings report Thursday after the bell. If the report had been a pilot, it would have been canceled immediately.

Revenues slipped over 13% to around $3.2 billion. CBS said it lost 8 cents per share. Talk about a failure of a quarter. Last year at this time, CBS made 36 cents per share. True, the comparison was a difficult one, since a change in distribution strategy for the international placement of the CSI asset enhanced the previous year's results.

But let's not get hung up on difficult comparisons. CBS simply had a bad three months. A very bad three months indeed. Oh, and I should note that analysts thought CBS might earn 7 cents per share. That seems almost comical at this juncture.

Hooray! Maybe we'll finally learn how Ted met his kids' mother after all.

CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) was in line at upfronts central this morning, and there were not many things stripped from the schedule. The network is still banking on procedural drams, which have helped revitalize ratings in recent years.

Returning: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "CSI: Miami", "CSI: NY", "Ghost Whisperer", "How I Met Your Mother", "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (so nice to see the "Seinfeld curse" broken!), "NCIS", "Numbers", "Shark", "Rules of Engagement", "Two and a Half Men", "The Unit", "Without a Trace."

Canceled: "3 Lbs.". "The Class", "Close to Home", "Jericho" (too bad ... I heard this was a good one. Of course, I never watched it ...), "The King of Queens" and "Waterfront."

New offerings from the first-place network include "Cane", starring the ever-likable Jimmy Smits as part of a Cuban-American family running a rum business in South Florida. Hugh Jackman comes to the small screen in "Viva Laughlin", a mystery surrounding a Nevada casino owner. If vampire private eyes are your thing, check out "Moonlight." The fourth and final new drama from CBS this fall is "Swingtown", a soap set in 1970s Chicago that may hit the schedule midseason. One sitcom and a Drew-Carey-hosted game show are also set to debut this fall.

Beth Gaston Moon is an analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.

iTunes rounded out its network television offerings today by adding primetime CBS shows including all three CSI franchises, NCIS, Numb3rs and Survivor. The shows will be $1.99 each, just like shows from NBC, USA, Showtime, ABC, and (all importantly) Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

Investors seemed just as pleased as customers (the ones who will now be able to watch a bullet ripping through some poor sap's body over and over and over on their iPod's tiny screen). AAPL rode the tech sector up $2.195, or nearly 4%, to $60.76.

With this addition, iTunes carries virtually every popular primetime TV show, all for $1.99 each, and making the company the vendor of choice for watching television on the (very) small screen. The question: do customers want to download their TV, or record it on their DVRs for fullsize viewage? I'd much rather buy my shows one-by-one than navigate the complexities and scheduling required to remember to record them. How 'bout you?