Les Moonves

CBS Chief Moonves: "We Like Our Relationship With iTunes"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2007 - 8:30am.

New York - Unlike NBC, whose TV shows will disappear from Apple's iTunes Store after the companies failed to reach an agreement on pricing and other issue, the CEO of CBS said on Tuesday his company will not enter into the dispute, Reuters reported.

Survey: Media, Entertainment Execs See User-Generated Content as Threat

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 18, 2007 - 1:25pm.

New York - A survey of senior media and entertainment executives has found that user-generated content, on sites like YouTube, MySpace and blogs, is considered one of the biggest threats to their businesses.

Analysis: It’s Time for Les Moonves to Cut Off CBS' Long Tail

Authored by Jay Baage on January 16, 2007 - 5:44am.

I was recently interviewed in the Florida newspaper St. Petersburg Times about my views on the future of television. My point was that we will soon see more original television programming specifically made for new platforms. After having spent last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, I’m surprised that we do not see more of that happening already. We are clearly past the point of no return for the digitalization of television. Seeing CBS head Leslie Moonves bring out YouTube’s Chad Hurley and Sling Box’s Blake Krikorian on stage during a CBS presentation is verification enough. Now the challenge is to change the way that shows are developed by the networks.

CBS Head Leslie Moonves Hangs Out with the Cool Guys

Authored by Jay Baage on January 10, 2007 - 10:30am.

Las Vegas - Old media’s grand old man Sumner Redstone’s media empire Viacom is getting down with Web 2.0’s poster boys in the form of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, Second Life CEO Philip Rosedale, and Sling Box CEO Blake Krikorian. That’s clearly the essence of CBS’ CEO Leslie Moonves’ keynote at CES on Tuesday afternoon. He paraded his new friends on stage, one after another, and had them go on about the wonders that CBS content can do in the hands of new technology, instead of promoting it all himself.