Leslie Moonves
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"Leslie Roy Moonves" is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation.

Moonves served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom (1971-2005)/Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005. Prior to that he had been in a series of executive positions for CBS since July 1995. Moonves has also been a Director at ZeniMax Media since 1999.

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We're very happy with the hand we are playing now. We are not looking for an acquisition of that size.

You want the NFL, you want 'Survivor,' you want 'CSI,' you want David Letterman--you're going to have to pay us what you pay USA [Network] for, ... We have considered it one of the great injustices for many years that we never got paid for our signal.

There is absolutely nothing about this show relatable to my story, in fairness. This is about a twentysomething-year-old guy looking for the love of his life. One of the things I love about my job is the naiveté of people, thinking what things will affect me.

Katie is simply one of the best in the business and represents a tremendous addition to CBS News.

Mark's a great, great producer. He's a terrific talent, so we're glad we're in business with him. 'Survivor' had a lot to do with changing the whole profile of this network, so we're indebted to him.

Technology's our friend. Our goal: Take the content and use it any way we can.

The bar is very high. You're going to have to be very good to get on our network.

But any of you who have dealt with me at all know that slow growth and me don't go hand in hand so well together.