Leslie Moonves
President and chief executive officer, CBS Corp.
Leslie Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS
Corporation. In this role, he oversees all operations of the company,
including the CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between
CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television
Stations, CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Television
Distribution Group, Showtime, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor, Simon &
Schuster, CBS Interactive, CSTV Networks, Inc., CBS Consumer Products
and CBS Feature Films.
Prior to the Viacom separation in 2005, Moonves served as Co-President
and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom and Chairman of CBS,
overseeing all of Viacom's domestic and international broadcast
television operations, radio division and outdoor advertising
operations.
Moonves was promoted to Chairman and CEO of CBS in 2003, and prior to
that, was President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Television, a
position he was elevated to in April 1998. He joined CBS in July 1995
as President, CBS Entertainment. Under Moonves' aegis, CBS has
developed television's Number One drama, "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation;" the king of reality series, "Survivor"; and hit series
such as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Two and a Half Men," "The King of
Queens," "CSI: Miami," "Without A Trace," "Cold Case," "CSI: NY" and
the Emmy Award-winning reality series "The Amazing Race." It was
during this time CBS became America's most watched television network,
going from last to first during Moonves' leadership.
He 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. He had been President
of Warner Bros. Television since July 1993, when Warner Bros. and
Lorimar Television combined operations. From 1989 to 1993, he had been
President of Lorimar Television. He joined the company in 1985 as
executive in charge of its movies and mini-series, and became head of
creative affairs in 1988.
Earlier in his career, Moonves was Vice President of movies and mini-
series for Twentieth Century Fox Television, where he was also in
charge of first-run syndication and pay/cable programming. He had
previously been Vice President, development, for Saul Ilson
Productions (in association with Columbia Pictures Television) and a
development executive for Catalina Productions.
Upon graduation from Bucknell University, Moonves pursued an acting
career at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, studying under the
renowned Sanford Meisner. He performed in numerous stage and
television productions before opting to produce plays on Broadway and
in Los Angeles.
Moonves is a member of the NCAA Advisory Board, the board of directors
of the Los Angeles Free Clinic and the board of trustees of the
Entertainment Industries Council. He is a trustee of the National
Council for Families and Television and of the American Film Institute
and is past president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
He is also co-chair of the Los Angeles Board of Governors of the
Museum of Television & Radio.
In March 2003, Moonves was honored by the International Radio and
Television Society as the recipient of the Gold Medal Award, one of
most prestigious honors in media and entertainment. Since joining CBS,
Moonves has also been named Variety's Showman of the Year and
Entertainment Weekly's Most Powerful Man in Hollywood and received the
Casting Society of America's Career Achievement Award.
He is also a past recipient of the American Jewish Committee's
Sherrill Corwin Award, given to outstanding leaders in the
entertainment and communications industry.
NBC....?.... pending
On Oct 6, 11:40 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [[ Now you know who beings us all that trash. ]]
>
> *Who Owns The Media?
> **The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch,
> Hear and Read
> **Economic Collapse Blog <http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/>
>
> *Back in 1983, approximately 50
> corporations<http://www.corporations.org/media/>controlled the vast
> majority of all news media in the United States. Today,
> ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six
> incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control
> most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television
> networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing
> houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most
> Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless
> hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans
> don't really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The
> truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are
> constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average
> American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans
> begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching
> or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely
> addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and
> entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands
> each year.
>
> The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time
> Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation
> and NBC Universal. Together, the "big six" absolutely dominate news and
> entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that
> the "big six" do not completely control are becoming increasingly
> concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations
> across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are
> increasingly dominating the Internet.
>
> But it is the "big six" that are the biggest concerns. When you control what
> Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what
> they think. They don't call it "programming" for nothing.
>
> Back in 1983 it was bad enough that about 50 corporations dominated U.S.
> media. But since that time, power over the media has rapidly become
> concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people....
>
> *In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the
> biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. … [I]n 1987, the
> fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. … [I]n 1990, the twenty-nine had
> shrunk to twenty three. … [I]n 1997, the biggest firms numbered ten and
> involved the $19 billion Disney-ABC deal, at the time the biggest media
> merger ever. … [In 2000] AOL Time Warner's $350 billion merged corporation
> [was] more than 1,000 times larger [than the biggest deal of 1983].
>
> *~ Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press,
> 2000), pp. xx–xxi
>
> Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the
> information in the chart below comes from
> mediaowners.com<http://www.mediaowners.com/company/cbscorporation.html>.
> The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that
> these six behemoths actually own....
>
> *Time Warner
>
> *Home Box Office (HBO)
> Time Inc.
> Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
> Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
> CW Network (partial ownership)
> TMZ
> New Line Cinema
> Time Warner Cable
> Cinemax
> Cartoon Network
> TBS
> TNT
> America Online
> MapQuest
> Moviefone
> Castle Rock
> Sports Illustrated
> Fortune
> Marie Claire
> People Magazine
>
> *Walt Disney
>
> *ABC Television Network
> Disney Publishing
> ESPN Inc.
> Disney Channel
> SOAPnet
> A&E
> Lifetime
> Buena Vista Home Entertainment
> Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
> Buena Vista Records
> Disney Records
> Hollywood Records
> Miramax Films
> Touchstone Pictures
> Walt Disney Pictures
> Pixar Animation Studios
> Buena Vista Games
> Hyperion Books
>
> *Viacom
>
> *Paramount Pictures
> Paramount Home Entertainment
> Black Entertainment Television (BET)
> Comedy Central
> Country Music Television (CMT)
> Logo
> MTV
> MTV Canada
> MTV2
> Nick Magazine
> Nick at Nite
> Nick Jr.
> Nickelodeon
> Noggin
> Spike TV
> The Movie Channel
> TV Land
> VH1
>
> *News Corporation
>
> *Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
> Fox Television Stations
> The New York Post
> Fox Searchlight Pictures
> Beliefnet
> Fox Business Network
> Fox Kids Europe
> Fox News Channel
> Fox Sports Net
> Fox Television Network
> FX
> My Network TV
> MySpace
> News Limited News
> Phoenix InfoNews Channel
> Phoenix Movies Channel
> Sky PerfecTV
> Speed Channel
> STAR TV India
> STAR TV Taiwan
> STAR World
> Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
> Times Literary Supplement Magazine
> Times of London
> 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
> 20th Century Fox International
> 20th Century Fox Studios
> 20th Century Fox Television
> BSkyB
> DIRECTV
> The Wall Street Journal
> Fox Broadcasting Company
> Fox Interactive Media
> FOXTEL
> HarperCollins Publishers
> The National Geographic Channel
> National Rugby League
> News Interactive
> News Outdoor
> Radio Veronica
> ReganBooks
> Sky Italia
> Sky Radio Denmark
> Sky Radio Germany
> Sky Radio Netherlands
> STAR
> Zondervan
>
> *CBS Corporation
>
> *CBS News
> CBS Sports
> CBS Television Network
> CNET
> Showtime
> TV.com
> CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
> CBS Consumer Products
> CBS Outdoor
> CW Network (50% ownership)
> Infinity Broadcasting
> Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
> Westwood One Radio Network
>
> *NBC Universal
>
> *Bravo
> CNBC
> NBC News
> MSNBC
> NBC Sports
> NBC Television Network
> Oxygen
> SciFi Magazine
> Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
> Telemundo
> USA Network
> Weather Channel
> Focus Features
> NBC Universal Television Distribution
> NBC Universal Television Studio
> Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
> Trio
> Universal Parks & Resorts
> Universal Pictures
> Universal Studio Home Video
>
> These gigantic media corporations do not exist to objectively tell the truth
> to the American people. Rather, the primary purpose of their existence is to
> make money.
>
> These gigantic media corporations are not going to do anything to threaten
> their relationships with their biggest advertisers (such as the largest
> pharmaceutical companies that literally spend billions on advertising), and
> one way or another these gigantic media corporations are always going to
> express the ideological viewpoints of their owners.
>
> Fortunately, an increasing number of Americans are starting to wake up and
> are realizing that the mainstream media should not be trusted. According to
> a new poll just released by
> Gallup<http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/Distrust-Media-Edges-Record-High.aspx>,
> the number of Americans that have little to no trust in the mainstream media
> (57%) is at an all-time high.
>
> That is one reason why we have seen the alternative media experience such
> rapid growth over the past few years. The mainstream media has been losing
> credibility at a staggering rate, and Americans are starting to look
> elsewhere for the truth about what is really going on.
>
> Do you think that anyone in the mainstream news would actually tell you that
> the Federal Reserve is bad for
> America<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/11-reasons-why-the-federa...>or
> that we are facing a horrific derivatives
> bubble<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-horrific-derivatives-...>that
> could destroy the entire world financial system? Do you think that
> anyone in the mainstream media would actually tell you the truth about
> the deindustrialization
> of America<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/19-facts-about-the-deindu...>or
> the truth about the voracious
> greed of Goldman
> Sachs<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-goldman-sachs-made-te...>
> ?
>
> Sure there are a few courageous reporters in the mainstream media that
> manage to slip a few stories past their corporate bosses from time to time,
> but in general there is a very clear understanding that there are simply
> certain things that you just do not say in the mainstream news.
>
> But Americans are becoming increasingly hungry for the truth, and they are
> becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the dumbed down pablum that is
> passing as "hard hitting news" these days.
>
> So what do you think about the state of the mainstream media? Please feel
> free to leave a comment with your opinion below....
>
> *Reprinted with permission from the Economic Collapse
> Blog<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/>
> .
> *
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