Les Moonves

Ad Skipping: Careful What You Wish For

Dennis O'Brien | Posted 05.18.2012

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Dennis O'Brien

No one likes watching TV commercials, except, perhaps, during the Super Bowl. Even those whose livelihoods depend on them have a hard time convincing family members not to fast forward past them in this DVR age.

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Media Compensation Spikes In 2011

The Wrap Media | Posted 04.20.2012

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The economy was shaky, the home-entertainment industry was in turmoil and Occupy Wall Street was at full boil, but the top media and technology execut...

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CBS' Les Moonves 2011 Compensation: $69.9M, Up 21%

deadline.com | Posted 04.13.2012

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For perspective, Moonves' increase is far less than the 40% rise in CBS' stock in 2011. Still, the CEO's $69.9M package makes him by far the highest p...

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Regis Pitches Mysterious New Project To CBS, TV Land

The Huffington Post | Alex Moaba | Posted 02.23.2012

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Regis Philbin is officially trying to make a TV comeback, he told "The Talk." After dropping by the talk show on Thursday in the middle of an intervie...

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Media Power Couples: Who's The Ultimate Media Duo? (PHOTOS)

Posted 02.14.2012

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Power couples are everywhere in the media -- from TV reporters and anchors to executives, all the way through to newspaper and magazine writers. We're...

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Cohen And Chen Remember Interning At CBS

Posted 12.13.2011

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Andy Cohen brought the ladies of "The Talk" (weekdays, syndicated on CBS) a plate of bagels on Tuesday morning to welcome them to their second day of ...

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CBS Chief Whacks Ashton Kutcher Over Controversial Tweet

AP | Posted 01.18.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Ashton Kutcher knows what a tough day is like. Demi Moore announced that she's ending their marriage, and Kutcher earned a slap fr...

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Los Angeles Power Couples: The Essential List (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 07.06.2011

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Los Angeles loves its stars -- and if they come in pairs, all the better. But this list doesn't focus on couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie; in...

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CBS Chief's ENORMOUS Salary

The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 06.15.2011

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CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves received $57.7 million in total compensation last year, up 33.6% from the $43.2 million he made in 2009, ac...

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Sheen Will Never Be Invited Back To 'Two And A Half Men': Report

tmz.com | 28 Minutes Ago by TMZ Staff   | Posted 06.13.2011

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There are reports out today that Charlie Sheen might come back to "Two and a Half Men."  TMZ sources directly connected to the production of the show...

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Movie Review: Source Code

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.30.2011

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Marshall Fine

I can already see it at some virtual movie-revival house of the future: a "what-if?" double feature that teams Limitless and Source Code and points ou...

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CBS' Les Moonves Breaks His Silence On Charlie Sheen

The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK - CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves said Tuesday that he doesn't know if Two and a Half Men will be back in the future, but said the...

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Media Power Couples: Who's The Ultimate Media Duo? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Power couples are everywhere in the media—from TV reporters and anchors to executives, all the way through to newspaper and magazine writers. We're ...

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Les Moonves Takes Shot At Katie Couric During University Of Texas Talk

The Daily Texan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The common belief that new technology, such as the Internet, will lead to the death of television is false, said CBS President Leslie Moonves on campu...

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CBS CEO Warns Wife: 'I'll Cancel You'

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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CBS debuted its knockoff of "The View" Monday, featuring (most notably) Julie Chen, wife of CBS CEO Les Moonves. While the other hosts were greeted w...

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Les Moonves Overpaid By $28 Million: Study

Bloomberg | Jessica Silver | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a study for Bloomberg News, Crystal examined the compensation of 271 chief executive officers and found the average slipped 4.7 percent last year t...

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Media CEO Salaries Rise, $43 Million Moonves Tops List

New York Times | JOSEPH PLAMBECK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Top executives at the country's largest media companies continued to reel in multimillion-dollar pay packages in 2009, a year of widespread cost-cutti...

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Les Moonves Not Sold On 3-D TV

thewrap.com | Dylan Stableford | Posted 05.25.2011

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CBS chief Les Moonves spoke at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, and tossed some cold water on Hollywood's w...

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Les Moonves Salary DOUBLED To $43 Million In 2009

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves received a pay package valued at $43 million in 2009, more than double his compensation a ye...

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Success of Reality Show The Senate Spurs Futility TV Copycats

Steven Clifford | Posted 05.25.2011

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The unexpected success of ABC's breakout reality megahit, The Senate, may precipitate a torrent of copycat shows.

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Les Moonves' CBS Contract Renewed Through 2015

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Media Power Couples: Who's The Ultimate Media Duo? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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If any industry can be considered incestuous, it's the media. Power couples populate the industry, from TV anchors to executives and even the newspap...

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CBS's Priorities Stink

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Warner

Lay off news people and take a controversial ad from a conservative anti-abortion group so it can afford to pay the boss $20 million? That must make people who work at CBS really want to hold their heads up high.

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Looking Back on the Year of the Woman

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

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Meredith C. Carroll

Time magazine had several contenders for its annual Person of the Year issue, including Timothy Geithner, Stanley McChrystal, Usain Bolt and, of cours...

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Don Hewitt

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Peyronnin

Yesterday, Don Hewitt was remembered as a true pioneer of broadcast news in a touching ceremony at the Rose Hall in New York's Time Warner Center.

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