Leslie Moonves

On Jan. 10, 2005, CBS President Leslie Moonves sent his employees a novella-length memo with the subject line “The Independent Panel Issues its report.”

CBS had formed said independent panel months earlier, in the fall of 2004, in order to investigate the development, preparation and aftermath of Dan Rather and company’s flawed report on President Bush’s military service. The report had aired on 60 Minutes Wednesday on Sept. 8, 2004, a few months before the presidential election, and had subsequently embroiled the network in a scandal that came to be known as “Memogate.”

In his memo to the staff, Mr.  read more »

Movie macher Harvey Weinstein doesn’t do anything small, especially when it comes to his nuptials. Case in point: his wedding last weekend to fashion designer Georgina Chapman. After guests parked at a school near Mr. Weinstein’s waterfront Westport manse, they were shuttled to the home, where they found the Miramax mogul nattily clad in a Tom Ford tux—no doubt the result of a loving nudge from his new fashion-friendly wife, who reportedly looked stunning in a pleated, ivory tulle dress of her own design. While rocking out to the Gypsy Kings, partygoers noshed on eats catered by Nobu and Cipriani, who provided the Dover sole and veal osso buco. To cap off the festivities, fireworks were sent up over Long Island Sound. Accompanying the groom’s stylish duds were some big players from the fashion world: Anna Wintour, Glenda Bailey, Natalia Vodianova, Margherita Missoni, Helena Christensen, Jacquetta Wheeler, Carol Hamilton, Rachel Zoe and Karolina Kurkova. And while Bill Clinton, Sean “Diddy” Combs, George Clooney and God Almighty sent their regrets, there was plenty of Hollywood glitz, politico heft and media meat provided by Rupert Murdoch, Leslie Moonves, George Pataki, Andrew Cuomo, Renée Zellweger, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz.

Not complaining—they can be quite charming! But it doesn’t seem quite fair that offspring of the rich and famous are sucking up all the glam media jobs.  read more »

In a move akin to firing Bobby Knight and replacing him with Woody Hayes, CBS Radio has at last settled on Don Imus's successor: Craig Carton.  read more »

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Everyone was psyched for the CW upfront at Madison Square Garden Thursday morning. The first launch of a broadcast network in a decade! With young, multi-racial, technologically savvy viewers! Who are making their first major purchasing decisions! And developing brand loyalty!

At one point during the festivities, America's Next Top Model host Tyra Banks led an uncomfortable one-woman pep rally for the hot new network's hot new logo. "Y'all know I'm all into fierceness, and, like, visuals," she shouted, "and the new logo is hot."

A magazine editor sitting nearby observed that this superhot new logo, which spells out "CW" in thick, curvy lowercase, is the exact mirror image of the logo for CNN.

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The CBS Upfront, aka the Leslie Moonves Variety Hour, began at 3:15 on Wednesday with a live band striking up at Carnegie Hall. A PSA appeared on the giant screen up front, asking everyone to silence their cell phones, Trios, two-way pagers, etc.

Anyway, the announcer told the packed house, "everybody who's anybody is already here."  read more »

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Now that Katie Couric—America’s High Priestess of Perky—will take over the vaunted anchor chai  read more »

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"My advice to CBS News," said Larry Gelbart, the TV writer, playwright and comedy master behind the  read more »

Leslie Moonves, the chairman and chief executive of the CBS division of the Viacom media empire, now  read more »

On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 14, Leslie Moonves, the swaggering chairman and chief executive o  read more »

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 6"We very much hope that David Letterman stays at CBS," Leslie Moonves said.  read more »

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