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	Les Moonves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leslie "butt boy" Moonves (born December 23, 1948 in New York City) is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation.
		Moonves served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005.
		On February 28, 2006, media reports circulated that Moonves and CBS were about to file a $500 million lawsuit against Howard Stern for allegedly breaching his contract by failing to disclose the details of his deal with Sirius Satellite Radio while still employed by Infinity Broadcasting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Moonves (421 words)

	Dialogue: Les Moonves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Leslie Moonves: The end of fin-syn changed the world in a way that none of us could have predicted when we look at the industry now, where there are six networks, all of them owned by studios.
		Moonves: I said it then and say it now: Yes, it's fine to vertically integrate (a network and a studio), unless you do it to the exclusion of everyone else.
		Moonves: One of the things we've done over the last year is we've made a real right-hand turn to incorporate some (audience) flow into our five nights of programming, and we're going from being a male-targeted place to a female place.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/television/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000750207 (760 words)

	Katie Couric, CBS Anchor? It's Like Night And 'Today' (washingtonpost.com)
		Stern action by Moonves, on the heels of an independent report criticizing the segment, was seen at least partly as a sop to quiet angry conservatives; for decades, going back to Edward R. Murrow's heroic debunking of Joe McCarthy, CBS News has been the far right's punching bag.
		Moonves is also despised by some insiders and observers for what he hasn't done.
		Moonves says Rather would remain merely as "a reporter," sounding almost as if he were being busted back from general to private.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A22649-2005Jan19.html (1027 words)

	BWW-November 2002
		Merely pronouncing “Les Moonves” is for Letterman an enunciatory pleasure on the order of “Uma” or “Oprah.” On the Late Show, Moonves has had to watch — and mostly laugh at — the weirdly twisted reenactments of their exchanges, public and private, real or imagined.
		Moonves understands as well as anyone how mercurial television’s audiences and their interests are, but since coming to CBS from Warner Bros. in 1995, he has shown a deft touch with prime-time programming as well as the business of network TV.
		Moonves grins and bears these rambles along the boundaries of TV comedy, hoping that nothing conveys confidence like letting your self-appointed head network complainer say whatever he wants.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /communications/BucknellWorld/2002_11/nov_text/feature2.html (1129 words)

	My Way - Page Six
		Stern tore into Moonves on his radio show when he learned that Moonves had signed a seven-figure production deal with Telepictures — the company Stern is suing for allegedly stealing a show idea from him.
		Stern claimed that Moonves offered to give him access to "the whole CBS legal department" to assist with his case just before Moonves teamed up with the defendants in that suit.
		Moonves' teeth are not capped and are in fact his own.
	entertainment.myway.com /celebgossip/pgsix/id/04_25_2003_1.html (406 words)

	Entertainment in the Digital Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moonves joined CBS as President, CBS Entertainment, in July 1995 and was promoted to his current post in April 1998.
		Moonves Joined CBS from Warner Bros. Television, where, as President, he oversaw a television division that supplied the greatest number of programs to network television for nine consecutive years, culminating in a record-setting 22 series (including "ER," "Friends" and "The Drew Carey Show") on the 1995-96 network schedules.
		Citing Moonves as "one of America's most prominent and creative broadcaster," President Clinton named him to co-chair the Gore Commission, a group charged with drawing up a blueprint for the relationship between broadcaster and the federal government.
	www.pbs.org /wttw/ceoexchange/episode_201/ceo_1.html (742 words)

	CBS Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Les Moonves is chairman of CBS and president of CBS Corporation.
		Prior to 1998, Moonves was president of CBS Entertainment.
		CBS is sometimes referred to as the Tiffany Network; the nickname is either a reference to the perceived classiness of CBS programming, or an allusion to some of the first demonstrations of color television, held by CBS in a former Tiffany building in New York City, in 1950.
	www.completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/CBS (3101 words)

	Online NewsHour: Interview with Les Moonves -- April 5, 2000
		LES MOONVES: I think in certain ways, it's going to be very different, and in certain ways, it's going to be the same.
		LES MOONVES: Well, a lot of these services have devices whereby you can program it to take the commercials out.
		LES MOONVES: Some of these things are a year away, even sooner than that.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june00/interviews/moonves1.html (671 words)

	Defamer - Les Moonves
		Moonves initially dismissed the music as “lobotomized, Iglesias-lite Muzak,” prompting the record exec to dispatch Martin to demonstrate the range of his talents in person.
		After a few minutes of uninspired caterwauling, Moonves remained unimpressed—that is, until Martin’s big finish, in which the singer finally turned the firehose of his passion on the man who held the key to his fame and fortune.
		CBS Corp.’s Les Moonves wasn’t the only executive pausing from calculating the value of his stock options long enough to send out a company-wide memo expressing a complex mix of excitement and sadness over the formation of The CW.
	www.defamer.com /hollywood/les-moonves (2486 words)

	Les Moonves touts Viacom breakup plan - Jun. 6, 2005
		Moonves is on deck to head one company comprised of the CBS and UPN broadcast networks, the Infinity Broadcasting radio unit, outdoor advertising and book publishing.
		Moonves, however, noted that gains by ABC and CBS during this year's upfront came at the expense of NBC, the once-dominant network whose ratings fell 17 percent in the year since "Friends" ended its blockbuster run.
		Moonves said the company is still looking to shed underperforming stations in smaller markets, but probably not as many as it once planned.
	money.cnn.com /2005/06/06/news/fortune500/viacom_moonves (1089 words)

	Les Moonves is today the chairman and CEO of CBS
		Les Moonves is today the chairman and CEO of CBS.
		Since joining CBS in 1995, Moonves has helped change CBS's image as the network of the older set, culminating in his canny selection of a show called Survivor for a summer slot in 2000 and in CBS's rise to the top of the U.S. ratings heap for the 2000-2001 season.
		MOONVES: We have two hours on the fall schedule, which is two hours more than we had a year ago.
	www.worldscreen.com /articles/moonves (1063 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Trump attacks CBS chief
		I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television," Trump said.
		Of course, he didn't know his audience — he said that in a room full of critics who had seen Moonves take CBS from the bottom of the ratings to the top and from losing tons of money to making tons of money.
		Moonves refused to rise to the bait, simply reiterating a statement the network had issued earlier.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590038996,00.html (612 words)

	"Apprentice" Moves in on Thursdays - Jan 23, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And that should add more fuel to the verbal squabbling between The Donald and The Les, aka CBS honcho Les Moonves, who was on the receiving end of a Trump hissy fit recently.
		Responded a CBS spokesperson: "Les Moonves is running the number one network in television, and we've somehow managing to limp along without the Miss Universe Pageant." Added another "CBS insider," according to the New York Post: "Donald Trump's reputation as one of the world's greatest horses' asses remains unchallenged."
		Moonves himself claimed to have an explanation for the whole mess when he referenced Trump's helmet of hair while addressing a TCA crowd on January 18.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,13339,00.html (745 words)

	"The Invisible Manager" by Ken Auletta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In over-all viewership, in 1997 CBS came in second to NBC for the secnod year in a row, but the network was fourth in attracting the most desirable age group (eighteen to forty-nine).
		Karmazin stayed away as Moonves and other executives planned the 1998-1999 season, and some of the strategic differences between the stations and the network emerged.
		Moonves says, "The show did get better," and adds, "It was a very difficult decision," but he feels that he was left no choice when the audience kept shrinking.
	cglass.vinu.edu /21JS/nyer.html (395 words)

	Les Moonves - TheBestLinks.com - CEO, David Letterman, General Electric, Jay Leno, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Les Moonves - TheBestLinks.com - CEO, David Letterman, General Electric, Jay Leno,...
		Les Moonves, CEO, David Letterman, General Electric, Jay Leno, NBC, President...
		Moonves is a director of and board member of Viacom, which purchased CBS in 1999.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Les_Moonves.html (288 words)

	Ghosting for Les
		ON TUESDAY, CBS president Les Moonves told the Los Angeles Times that it was "clear that something went seriously wrong with the process" that produced DanScam.
		Moonves is the boss of an organization under siege, one whose brand is being gutted.
		Moonves needs to gather everyone employed by CBS News in one place or via video link, and deliver a speech.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/668bjlln.asp (540 words)

	BW Online \| January 13, 2003 \| Les Moonves
		At the midway point of the TV season, CBS is averaging 12.9 million viewers a night, top among the networks and the only one of the four largest to have increased its audience from last year.
		Moonves, who sits on the board of parent company Viacom Inc. (VIA), still takes meetings and picks casts.
		But not everything in Moonves' world is running smoothly: CBS's sister network UPN, which he has overseen for the past year, continues to lose viewers.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_02/b3815617.htm (502 words)

	BW Online \| October 20, 2000 \| CBS's Les Moonves: Hollywood's New Miracle Worker?
		By 1999, Moonves had done the near-impossible, returning CBS to the top ratings rung for the first time since 1994.
		Moonves' big summer gamble -- that legions would tune in to watch a bunch of schemers stuck on an island or in a house -- paid off handsomely, providing dividends into the fall.
		So it's no surprise Moonves is feeling "exuberant." The ratings for CBS's new shows have shown only the slightest of dips in their second week.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/oct2000/nf20001020_923.htm (918 words)

	mediabistro.com: Blogs: TVNewser
		MOONVES: All I would say to you is, as I said, I did about 25 interviews on Monday.
		A TV writer describes this morning's Moonves Q&A to RatherBiased: "It was somewhat like a bullfight," one critic said.
		Moonves says CBS has to try and "reinvent" the evening news: "One of the ways we're looking at is making it younger and more relevant, something that younger people can relate to as opposed to that guy preaching from the mountaintop about what we should and should not watch."
	www.mediabistro.com /tvnewser/archive/2005_01_18_archive.asp (2359 words)

	Saunders: TV, Trump equal fireworks - Fans Of Reality TV
		An early target: Les Moonves, the highly successful president and CEO of CBS.
		Moonves said the network dropped the event because of low audience ratings.
		If Les Moonves was a contestant on this show, he would have been fired by the third episode, I promise you.
	www.fansofrealitytv.com /forums/showthread.php?t=23195 (781 words)

	CBS' Moonves Rising Over UPN - Dec 11, 2001 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moonves, who has lorded over the Eye network since 1995, will now run both networks--a first in TV history.
		Moonves' move will consolidate the operations of both networks under the CBS Television banner, although specific details were not immediately released by Viacom or the networks.
		Moonves, meanwhile, says he's committed to making UPN a profitable player in the Viacom empire, which also includes Paramount Pictures, Showtime, Blockbuster, MTV, VH1, TNN and Simon & Schuster, among many others.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,9238,00.html?yhnws (560 words)

	New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: Moonves' marriage may get an airing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CBS spokesmen have brushed away suggestions that she owed her morning slot to Moonves or that there is anything but a professional relationship.
		Seemingly aware of such talk, Moonves declined to be photographed with Chen at a premiere last summer, though he did consent to join her in a group shot later in the evening.
		Nancy Moonves' filing comes a week after her husband signed a five-year contract with Viacom that elevated him to network chairman and CEO.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/77644p-71622c.html (1368 words)

	Poynter Online - Forums
		Moonves would like to enlarge that audience and lower its age, just as he did with CBS’s prime-time audience.
		Moonves genuinely likes and respects Heyward, but has said to colleagues that Heyward may not be able to ‘‘lead a revolution.’’
		It might seem surprising that Moonves, given his approach to the genre of TV drama, is so taken with reinventing the news.
	poynter.org /forum/view_post.asp?id=10178 (792 words)

	LOS ANGELES, January 19: Viacom co-president and co-COO Les Moonves plans to introduce significant changes to the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Speaking with reporters at the Television Critics Association conference, Moonves said that news format would likely shift towards multiple anchors and away from the "voice of God, single anchor" model, he said.
		Moonves is also considering a role on the Evening News for Comedy Central's late-night fake news host and political commentator Jon Stewart.
		The potential plan for the news, Moonves said, is "to create less of that guy sitting behind the chair who is preaching from the mountain and do something much younger, more of an ensemble feeling.
	www.worldscreen.com /articles/cbs119 (231 words)

	Viacom Names Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves Co-Presidents and Co-Chief Operating Officers
		Moonves is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CBS, a position he has held since 2003.
		Obviously, Tom and Les are the two leading candidates to be the next CEO of Viacom.
		Also reporting to Moonves are CBS Enterprises, which features the syndication division King World and CBS Broadcast International, the international sales unit.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-01-2004/0002184451&EDATE= (1712 words)

	A Brand-New Old Media Company - Enterprise Management - MSNBC.com
		Les Moonves talks about how an independent CBS will make waves in the era of downloading.
		But CEO Les Moonves, a former actor, has come out of the gate with digital-distribution deals (with Google and Comcast, as well as a plan to sell new "Survivor" episodes from the CBS Web site), an acquisition of cable net College Sports TV and the merger of his UPN TV network with the WB network.
		Moonves, at a CBS retreat in Florida, talked to us by phone about the future of his company—and the industry.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11295699/site/newsweek (958 words)

	A Thirst for Synergy - 10/11/2004 - Broadcasting & Cable - CA470571 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Moonves and his co-president and co-COO at Viacom, Tom Freston, took the new Les and Tom Show (or is it the Tom and Les Show?) to the Goldman Sachs Communicopia media investment conference the other day.
		In a moment of startling candor, Tom and Les acknowledged to Goldman's Anthony Noto that, er, the strategic plan isn't an update, it's a whole new thing.
		Moonves and Freston face the prospect of Viacom's revenues growing at a mere 6%-7% over the next few years.
	broadcastingcable.com /article/CA470571.html?display=Top+of+the+Week (627 words)

	"Survivor" Survives Again - Jan 21, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The decision to continue the show for a ninth and 10th season was reportedly made as executive producer Mark Burnett and network boss Les Moonves shared an escalator ride at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Los Angeles.
		Though it came as no surprise that CBS was amenable to keeping the highly rated series around for a while longer, the timing of the announcement was unexpected, as Burnett and the network have apparently worked out few details for the upcoming editions--including where they will take place.
		Moonves denied that the series would be exploitative and said that it would focus primarily on culture shock.
	movies.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,13309,00.html?newsrellink (470 words)

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