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You won't see Moonves on Twitter.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
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CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Home
Advertising
Company
Cbs
Largest
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It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Littles
Quiet
Succeed
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We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.
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Depends
Realizing
World
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Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Changed
Journalism
Partisanship
Ultimately
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The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.
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Able
Stuff
Team
Addition
Cbs
Maintain
Viacom
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Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.
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Fugitive
Supposed To Be
Would Be
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Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Fugitive
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CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Home
Letterman
Our Time
Proud
Work Out
Time Work Hope
David
Cbs
David Letterman
Talents
Work Hope Time
Truly
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The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
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Dying
Hurt
Stories
Broadcast
Cable
Hurting
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It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Last Night
Night
Strong
Survivor
Tired
Anticipating
Beat
Cbs
Factor
Soon
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Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
May
Profit
Tvs
Broadcast
Declining
Foreseeable
Foreseeable Future
Profits
Revenues
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We have CBS.com, we have our stuff on iTunes. We feel the wave of the future is getting as much distribution as we can. We feel that we should be nonexclusive and get our content out there.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Distribution
Itunes
Wave
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I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Accomplish
Enjoyed
Enthusiastic
Good News
News
Pride
Team
Terrific
Success Good Great
Cbs
Tremendous
Great Pride
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News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
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Church
Church And State
Mediums
News
Separation
Television
Purest
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I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl?
Leslie Moonves / Executive
American Idol
Believe
Cheerleader
Cheerleading
Idols
Super Bowl
Believe I Am People
Bowl
Broadcaster
Genuinely
Idol
Million People
Super
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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.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Creating
Identity
People
Rebuilding
Back Up
Success Process People
Network
Slow
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By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
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Aspect
Election
Public Service
Bono
Networks
More And More
Pro
Throughout
Token
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There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Advertising
American Idol
Dollars
Idols
People
Plenty
Seconds
Super Bowl
Winning
Internet People Will
Bowl
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Idol
Super
Thousands
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I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Competing
Episodes
Landscape
Papers
Surfing
Two
Years
Network
Web
Whom
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Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Men
Broadcasting
Games
Mad Men
Thinking
Advertiser
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Cable
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I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Country
Thinking
Years
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I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Csi
Inches
Wide
Change Internet People
Foreign Country
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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.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Doubt
Football
Football Game
Games
Survivor
Thinking
Wireless
Episode
Grocery
Grocery Store
Store
Television Set
Tremendously
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I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Careers
Credit
Good News
News
People
Years
Good Me People
Clooney
Contract
George
Good Me News
George Clooney
Helped
Launch
Remembers
Row
Script
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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Character
Dark
People
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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Creative People
Dilemma
Episodes
Nervous
Unhappy
Weakness
Work Out
American Audiences
Nowhere
Respond
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My wife is the host of Big Brother. Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, "Da da da,* but first* we do this." So they mashed together her saying "but first" a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Brother
Couple
Cutting
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My wife is the host of 'Big Brother.' Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, 'Da da da, but first we do this.' So they mashed together her saying 'but first' a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Dozen
Host
Outfits
Appears
Big Brother
Julie
Literally
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As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.
Leslie Moonves / Executive
Automobile
Hands
Horse
Our World
Work World Better
Carriage
Opposed
Stick
Tent
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