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Leslie Moonves —
American
Businessman
born on October 06, 1949,
Leslie Roy Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation... (wikipedia)
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.
Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.