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- Cbs Denies Digital Deception - use of digital technology to cover NBC logo in Times Square - Brief Article
- Replacing NBC logo with CBS eye in correspondent Dan Rather's reports from Times Square in millennium coverage was simply use of digital technology and wasn't meant to deceive public, CBS TV CEO Leslie Moonves and News Pres. Andrew Heyward told TV critics last week. Heyward conceded CBS News has...
- Research articles 2000-01-17
- Moonves disses Zucker again ... and again.(FLASH!)(Leslie Moonves )(Jeff Zucker)
- Before CBS Chairman Les Moonves got around to knocking his archrival, NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker, at CBS' upfront presentation last week, he warmed up at a press breakfast. In less than an hour, we counted 11 jabs th...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Eye kicks Peacock while it's down.(UPFRONT LOWDOWN: CBS)(CBS Television Network, National Broadcasting Company Inc. NBC Television Network)(Brief Article)
- CBS chairman Leslie Moonves wants some of NBC's upfront ad dollars, and he wants to get them by reaching down NBC TV Group chief Jeff Zucker's throat. The Eye network has always delighted in jabbing at NBC, but CBS' general success...
- Research articles 2005-05-19
- CBS CEO Moonves: In 'Constant Conversations' With Oprah
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- CBS Corp.'s top executive said the company is "in dialogue" with daytime-TV queen Oprah Winfrey about the status of her long-running syndicated program, amidst speculation that the talk-show host could move her show to a cable start-up she has been working on with Discovery Communications. "We...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Newsmakers
- Bill Clinton wants to be the next Oprah? When it comes to our 42d president, almost anything seems plausible. Just not this. It's time to separate fact from fiction about Clinton's meeting last week with NBC. Fact: Clinton did meet with NBC top dogs Andrew Lack and Jeff Zucker. He...
- Research articles 2002-05-13
- Nbc And Cbs Throw Down Gauntlet To Affiliates
- NBC CEO Robert Wright and CBS TV CEO Leslie Moonves made it clear in N.Y.C. March 24 that, if affiliates don't cooperate in changing TV's "business model," their networks won't hesitate to move their programming from over-air TV stations to cable. "We have to change the business model," Wright...
- Research articles 1999-03-29
- CBS sweeps blunder under ratings gains; Reagan biopic fiasco rare static for top network, but NBC pulls most ad dollars.(News)(CBS president Leslie Moonves under fire)
- Byline: valerie block Last week, CBS stumbled into the crucial November sweeps with a massive black eye, the result of buckling to political pressure and pulling its controversial biopic, The Reagans. Looking past the scathing editorials, a radi Byline: valerie block...
- Research articles 2003-11-10
- CBS Relaunching TV.com; Hoping Finally To Become A Video Player; Aiming Beyond Hulu, Not At It
- *CBS* Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination, paidContent has learned. The full-scale relaunch with new content partners is slated for January but the cosmetic changes will start this week with a new...
- External links 2008-12-15
- In Reality, it was the weirdest sweeps ever: Fox wins 18-49, CBS takes total viewers. (Programming).
- After a February sweeps that CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves characterized as "perhaps the craziest in show-business history" Fox claimed its first 18-49 win in its 20 years on the air, toppling NBC from its 18-49 perch for the first After a February...
- Research articles 2003-03-03
- Broadcast Networks Face Identity Crisis
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- NBC or TNT? While TV-industry suits and ad buyers will tell you a vast difference exists between the two, it's all the same to a kid channel-surfing his way up and down the cable box. Now even the biggest proponents of broadcast TV have begun to...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Hit man: McPherson churned out winning shows at Touchstone. Can he rescue ABC?(Top of the Week)
- Steve McPherson is a network samurai--an aggressive, competitive, passionate executive. And he now joins a tiny fraternity, led by Leslie Moonves, CBS chairman and CEO, and Jeff Zucker, NBC Entertainment, News and Cable President. Both define succe Steve McPherson is a network samurai--an aggressive,...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- Clash of the titans.(In The Loop)(Brief Article)
- It's an aphorism to power centers like New York and L.A., and wherever Survivor is played: "It's not personal, it's business." But with NBC chief Jeff Zucker and CBS head Leslie Moonves, it's personal. And last January, Donald Trump ...
- Research articles 2004-05-24
- TV Upfront Tally Slips to $8 Billion as Networks Take Their Chances on Scatter
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- This year's upfront tally is estimated to be between $7.8 billion and $8.1 billion, down from last year's about $9.23 billion. And for that you can thank Mel Karmazin. In 2001, with the economy in decline and CBS still joined with Viacom, then-second-in-command Mr. Karmazin (now...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Daily News, New York, Media Column.
- By Phyllis Furman, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 28--NBC -- whose $30 million investment in the XFL is turning into a mega-disaster -- made a huge mistake passing on the NFL, said Leslie Moonves, CEO of rival CBS, home of...
- Research articles 2001-02-28
- The Couric countdown.(Katie Couric)
- The drumbeat is getting louder and louder in the halls of CBS, signaling that Katie Courie is going to leap over to the network this spring when her NBC contract runs out. For the past year, CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves has been quietly wooing Couric to be...
- Research articles 2005-11-28
- Tv Critics Notebook
- NBC executives took issue with statement to TV critics last week by CBS TV Pres. Leslie Moonves that after merger of ABC and Disney programming arms, other networks no longer could expect programming from Disney units. NBC Entertainment Pres. Garth Ancier said his network has pilot in works "from...
- Research articles 1999-08-02
- CBS again tops in total viewers
- The May sweeps ratings period, which helps set local ad rates, ends today along with the 2003-04 season. Among sweeps highlights: * Winners and losers. With its sixth consecutive victory among total viewers, CBS claims every sweeps period this season and last, a "remarkable achievement," says CBS chairman Leslie...
- Research articles 2004-05-26
- CBS holds off on spirits advertising, for the time being - News Briefs - Brief Article
- Following the storm caused by NBC's decision to transmit spirits advertising, rival network CBS has said it has no plans to follow suit. But crucially, the network did not rule out such a move in the future. "We have talked to our affiliates, we have looked out into the marketplace...
- Research articles 2002-01-21
- Networks dumb to be mystified by shrinking audiences
- Viewers Turned Off by Morally Repugnant and Intellectually Vapid Offerings CBS entertainment boss Leslie Moonves recently told the New York Times that "three of four networks . . . probably aren't going to make any money next season, and [profits for] NBC . . . will probably be down to...
- Research articles 1998-07-10
- In defense of legal reality
- When producer David E. Kelley, known for his legal dramas such as The Practice, Ally McBeal and Boston Legal, said he was doing a legal reality show, people were shocked. After all, Kelley was so anti-reality that he wrote a 2003 episode of The Practice about a woman so...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
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