The Reasoned Sceptic (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Friday's Wall Street Journal featured Les Moonves' CBS in its 'Heard On The Street' column. It's an instructive piece because it describes how much of a step up the job of CEO can be, and frequently is, from merely running a business unit within a multi-business company. In Moonves' case, he was unhappy being cast as CEO of the slow-growth component that was spun out of Sumner Redstone's...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
"We have not aseen a great slowdown in national advertising," said CBS CEO Les Moonves during an earnings call this morning. Executives said the company sold just under 80 percent of its national TV advertising during the upfronts and despite precipitous drops in the financial markets, cancellations have come at a "normal" rate. "Our major categories are still hanging in there," said Moonves....
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... you have a number ofshows that have buzz, people begin to say, 'I have to have Show time,'" CBSCEO Les Moonves told the Times. Moonves also discounted speculationthat Show time cold be especially vulnerable during a tight economy whenconsumers may be trying to save money by cutting down their cable bills. "Noone knows what might happen because we've never experienced an economicsituation...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... the jump!Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21): First phone call today: Cancel that meeting with Les Moonves. After the meager numbers Rosie and Ellen brought in, no one wants another lesbian variety show and you'll just be embarrassing yourself and the talent. Second call: Break the bad news to Janis Ian.Capricorn (December 22 - January 19): Taurus is your enemy this week, specifically...
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... is only one other person in the elevator with you for the journey to the top floor — and it’s Les Moonves , President and CEO of CBS! (Again, unclear why he is taking the same elevator as you — we’ll fix that in post-production.) Here is the perfect opportunity for your elevator pitch . You have thirty seconds — which, as this blog is still a text-based medium, we’ll approximate as strictly...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Anthony Zuiker: All these (spinoffs) were network ideas. The phone would ring, (CBS president and CEO) Les Moonves would say, "We want to do a 'CSI 2.' Pick a city." Collectively, (executive producer) Mr. (Jerry) Bruckheimer and all of us said "Miami." New York was pretty much the same conversation. We were looking to pick a city that was diverse from the previous two -- Las Vegas is in the...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Zuiker: It had been my idea to go darker, more rough and raw. I was a brand-new showrunner, and I was forgetting the biggest rule of television; I was writing for myself instead of for the audience. The turning point in the success of the show was Les Moonves saying, "We're no longer going to live in a subterranean world." Now it's beautiful, multicultural, expansive and there are 8 million...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... focus development on fewer shows that have a better chance of succeeding. By contrast, CBS boss Les Moonves said the overall development process at his network hasn't changed much, it's just that they are being smarter about where they are placing bets. "We're not going to do dumb deals, and we're not going to get into bidding wars," Moonves said. CBS typically buys 20 pilots per...
10Q Detective (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Les Moonves, Chief Executive of CBS Corp. (CBS-$8.25), told analysts on the third-quarter 2008 earnings call that the company was committed to paying a healthy dividend to its shareholders. As global recessionary pressures mount, whether the broadcaster can continue to produce the free cash necessary to support the current 13 percent yield, or $1.08 per share, is questionable. During the
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... to go unquestioned. But, then you have someone like on . She is married to the CBS head honcho Les Moonves. It's not a coincidence that she is the host of Big Brother, which happens to air on CBS. This wouldn't be an issue if Chen were good at her job. But, alas, she is not. Suggestion #3 – No More Julie Chen What You Said:bria100 said:...new host. I cannot stand Julie Chen as the host....
Woot! - One Day, One Deal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Instead of dredging up some cornball election-themed game for today, I'm going to engage in what Les Moonves would call "counter-programming". Presenting Cubefield , a fast-paced dodge-the-cubes flying game that's the perfect mind-number for the election-weary.
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Filed under: Casting , Reality-Free The other day, Les Moonves said that CBS is a network where the good guys win. That's part of the reason for the Tiffany net's success, even if their programming is sometimes deemed too traditional. Well, a great CBS star is coming back to the fold to play a good guy in a movie series that fans embrace. Tom Selleck will returns as Jesse Stone in his sixth...
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Diane Mermigas submits: Just as [[CBS]] chief executive Les Moonves was putting the best face on his company's $12.5 billion third-quarter loss Thursday, the Commerce Department declared the U.S. economy DOA on a 3% annual decline in consumer spending and a negative GDP. There is no way a pure-play, advertising-dependent CBS can escape more deadening blows based on where things are headed....
Advertising Age - MediaWorks (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Local TV and radio are taking a hit in the economic meltdown, but CBS CEO Les Moonves claims that national advertising is holding its own, and that the network's major ad categories -- even automotive -- are "hanging in there."
Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
CBS has beaten the competition every week this fall in the 18-49 demo. For a network that supposedly skews older, the trend is a surprising one. CBS has also beaten the other nets in the 25-54 demo...
