Moonves: We don’t need cable, we’ve got the ‘Net!
Don Day September 6th, 2008
CBS Corporation CEO Leslie Moonves appeared on CNBC Friday to talk about the company’s direction and future (video link). CBS doesn’t have a lot in the way of cable networks, with Showtime being its lone outlet (its former cable cousins split off into Viacom about two years ago). Moonves says he doesn’t need a big bundle of cable channels like NBCU has - instead he thinks the Internet is the way to go. He notes that CBS is now the 8th largest Internet company in the world, and says the CNET deal will be a big boon to his company, and there will be tight integration with CBS Interactive.
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1. discreet_chaos | September 7th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I’d be interested in the numbers for Katie’s post-convention night webcasts. I watched them a few times because the big speeches would end at the hour, so it was the only way to get Bob Schieffer and Jeff Greenfield’s take.
Of course, what made them doubly wonderful was that they were archived and remained prominently linked until the next day, so you didn’t actually have to watch them real-time. (Though, I would be interested in how many watched live and how many on tape)
Nonetheless, it was a good use of the web.
2. PJL | September 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
CBS also owns the basic cable network CBS College Sports Network (formerly College Sports TV).
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