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...Network programming is at the top [of the programming heap]," said CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves at a conference in early March. "If we're spending millions of dollars on NFL [games] or CSI, we should get paid as much as a cable network showing repeats." (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...himself. As a teenager, Hanks was a straight arrow wanting to earn a decent paycheck. He believed in the American Dream, and the Vietnam War made him uneasy. The closest Hanks got to protesting Vietnam, however, was privately rooting for the Smothers Brothers, whose show was eventually canceled by CBS because of their antiwar banter. Immune to Berkeley radicalism and too "unhip" - his word - for Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce, Hanks' comedic sensibility tilted more toward Bob Hope. Hanks was so square that he remembers rebuking a peer in his high school government class for saying in April 1974 that...
...Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a CBS News historian. His most recent book is The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America...
...work with only a handful of reporters and producers to get their story before 50 million network-news viewers every night and all over the papers the next morning. By contrast, Obama's most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets as they could - with 129 press interviews...
...talent-scout company called MPC and says he was so junior he was "getting the secretaries sandwiches." Desperate for a job in music, he started cold-calling record-label bosses in the Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting for new songwriters and building their careers. Soon after, he moved over to RCA to do the same job and scored his first hit single in the U.S. - Olivia Newton-John...