Desperate Networks: Starring Katie Couric Les Moonves Simon Cowell Dan Rather Jeff Zucker Teri Hatcher Conan O'Brian Donald Trump and a Host of Other Movers and Shakers Who...
CBS beats analysts with $207 million profit for Q3 — Bloomberg reports that CEO Les Moonves “is leading the industry” in getting satellite and cable TV systems to pay retransmission fees that may bring CBS $200 million by 2012 or 2013. Audience members heckled Moonves when he stepped onto the stage at Google’s CES keynote performance in 2006. It was almost too...
CBS beats analysts with $207 million profit for Q3 — Bloomberg reports that CEO Les Moonves “is leading the industry” in getting satellite and cable TV systems to pay retransmission fees that may bring CBS $200 million by 2012 or 2013. Audience members heckled Moonves when he stepped onto the stage at Google’s CES keynote performance in 2006. It was almost too...
This afternoon, CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus sent an email to staff about the network's coverage of Pres. Obama's Afghanistan address and the network's decision to stay with post-speech analysis, saying that it was actually CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves who made the call. Final numbers are not available yet, but CBS drew the most viewers for the address in the preliminary overnights...
This afternoon, CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus sent an email to staff about the network's coverage of Pres. Obama's Afghanistan address and the network's decision to stay with post-speech analysis, saying that it was actually CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves who made the call. Final numbers are not available yet, but CBS drew the most viewers for the address in the preliminary overnights...
... Leno is down 1.8 rating points in his 10 pm (eastern) daily show. You may remember CBS CEO Les Moonves said at the time Leno’s strip was announced that there will be more viewers available for people who put on great dramas -- I assumed he was talking about CBS. That’s great one-upsmanship but not very accurate. What is really happening should serve as a lesson to beleaguered...
Baked apples: Wilson's favorite! (Credit: Flickr/anjuli_ayer ) It's the day before Thanksgiving and CNET's The 404 Podcast has a lot to be thankful for. As we go around the circle from Wilson, to me, then to our special guests Natali Del Conte of CNET's Loaded and Tim Geisenheimer , we realize we all have something in common: we're all very very thankful to Les Moonves for signing our paychecks...
Gawker has posted a photo gallery of the CBS News anchor getting down on the floor. The images were supposedly captured in 2006. Poor Katie. See the rest > Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Since When Does Katie Couric Do Infomercials? (CLIP) Les Moonves: CBS Not Firing Katie Couric Yet Why Hasn't Katie Couric Been Fired? Because It Will Cost CBS $40 Million
... over the last few weeks. In her extensive report, she not only notes that head CBS honcho Les Moonves was "surprised" when the rumors first started flying a few weeks ago that Oprah was going to bolt from her current deal (that pays her some $275 million a year), but also that Oprah is planning on moving her show from her hometown of Chicago for the greener (and warmer) pastures...
I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compared to Fox and MSNBC. Bewkes’ response, paraphrased: We are not limiting ourselves to the center, we are a wider...
Peter Dunn , president and GM of WCBS-TV, now has the additional job of overseeing CBS' 29 stations across the country. In an email to staff, obtained by FishbowlNY, CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves writes, "Peter has been a terrific leader in every role he's had at our station group, from President of Sales to running two of our biggest stations. He knows how to deliver results and inspire the...
Who to believe? Dirty Dave Letterman, the teflon-coated comedian/late night talk show host is being beseiged once again. Not that any of it mattered to CBS or its president Les Moonves. However, since he wed long-time live in, Regina Lasko, mother of his now 6 year old Harry, in March, poor Dave has repeatedly been run through a [...]
CBS boss Les Moonves hints that the company's fourth-quarter results will be better than expected, receiving a big boost from strengthening rates for television ads.
Third-quarter earnings at the US broadcaster showed continued pressure on sales and profits but there was some recovery in profit margins, Les Moonves, its chief executive said
CBS chief Les Moonves said scatter prices in Q4 were up 25% from prices the network pulled in the upfronts. The network held back more inventory than usual during the upfronts, betting that scatter...
James Murdoch, Howard Stringer, Les Moonves, David Zaslav, and, interestingly, Comcast's Brian Roberts and GE's Jeff Immelt back to back, will be speaking at the annual hush-hush Quadrangle confab being held Wednesday and Thursday in NYC. No media are allowed unless they're moderating panels, and then they're prevented from reporting what's said inside: SPEAKERS -- EMILIO AZCÁRRAGA, Grupo...
