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2417403 - Disclosure - Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits (Change In Plan Assets) (Details)
(http://www.cbscorporation.com/role/PensionAndOtherPostretirementBenefitsChangeInPlanAssetsDetails)
TableSchedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table]
Slicers (applies to each fact value in each table cell)
Reporting Entity [Axis]0000813828 (http://www.sec.gov/CIK)
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]Period [Axis]
2016-01-01 - 2016-12-31
2015-01-01 - 2015-12-31
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Axis]Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans [Axis]
Pension benefits [Member]Postretirement benefits [Member]Pension benefits [Member]Postretirement benefits [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan, Change in Fair Value of Plan Assets [Roll Forward]
 
 
 
 
Fair value of plan assets, beginning of year
3,734,000,000  
4,000,000  
4,224,000,000  
5,000,000  
Actual return on plan assets
305,000,000  
0  
(99,000,000) 
0  
Employer contributions
52,000,000  
54,000,000  
52,000,000  
50,000,000  
Benefits paid
(328,000,000) 
(69,000,000) 
(416,000,000) 
(66,000,000) 
Participants' contributions
0  
11,000,000  
0  
11,000,000  
Retiree Medicare drug subsidy
0  
4,000,000  
0  
4,000,000  
Settlements
(518,000,000) 
0  
0  
0  
Cumulative translation adjustments
(1,000,000) 
0  
(27,000,000) 
0  
Fair value of plan assets, end of year
3,244,000,000  
 
4,000,000  
 
3,734,000,000  
 
4,000,000