Now that Katie Couric—America’s High Priestess of Perky—will take over the vaunted anchor chair at CBS News, where Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite once reigned, it’s time for the network news brass to stop taking themselves so seriously.
C’mon, folks, you can relax. We all know that network news isn’t about news anymore; it’s Read More
On Jan. 10, when the 224-page report on the investigation into CBS News’ 60 Minutes Wednesday memo scandal arrived, CBS president Leslie Moonves issued a statement dwelling on the failures of the employees involved in producing the disputed segment.
Prominent among the targets was executive producer Josh Howard. Mr. Howard, Mr. Moonves said, “did little Read More
On Jan. 10, when the 224-page report on the investigation into CBS News’ 60 Minutes Wednesday memo scandal arrived, CBS president Leslie Moonves issued a statement dwelling on the failures of the employees involved in producing the disputed segment.
Prominent among the targets was executive producer Josh Howard. Mr. Howard, Mr. Moonves said, “did little Read More
“My advice to CBS News,” said Larry Gelbart, the TV writer, playwright and comedy master behind the classic CBS program M*A*S*H: “Shut down.”
Here, finally, was an idea for CBS president and chief executive Leslie Moonves, from the man who once wrote about sardonic, wisecracking M.D.’s trying to stanch the bleeding and bring sanity to Read More
Leslie Moonves, the chairman and chief executive of the CBS division of the Viacom media empire, now has a sumptuous Park Avenue spread that’s just a short hop from the network’s West 52nd Street offices. Earlier this winter, according to real-estate sources familiar with the deal, Mr. Moonves, 54, purchased a nine-room apartment at 535 Read More
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 14, Leslie Moonves, the swaggering chairman and chief executive of CBS, will strut out onto the stage at Carnegie Hall, dressed in an impeccably tailored suit, to oversee the network’s presentation of its upcoming fall schedule to more than 2,800 assorted advertisers, media buyers, agents, executives, Hollywood suck-ups and Read More
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 6
“We very much hope that David Letterman stays at CBS,” Leslie Moonves said. It was the evening of March 4, and Mr. Moonves, the president of CBS, was standing in a hallway at the Museum of Television and Radio on West 52nd St, where his network had just shown 9/11 , the Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 23
For Robert Halmi Sr., the biggest TV movie producer in the world, the test of the American audience and just how low it will go comes Sunday, Feb. 27.
That evening–one of the last in the February television sweeps period–NBC will air the first installment of his 10-hour fantasy epic about Read More
Wednesday, Jan. 19
PASADENA, Calif.–The TV reporters from all over the country were picking at plates of fajitas and corn chips in the middle of Stage 19A in the Warner Brothers lot. Peter Roth, the Warner Brothers Television president, approached the group and took a seat.
It was to be a casual, catered lunch Read More
