Leslie Moonves was born on October 6, 1949, in New York in the US, set up in Valley Stream, son of Jewish parents Josephine and Herman Moonves. Named as Leslie Moonves Roy as a child, he completed his studies at the Valley Stream Central High School and graduating in 1971 from Bucknell University where for the second year from premed started acting in some games. Intending to become an actor, Leslie Moonves moved to Manhattan to pursue a career as an actor and after a few roles on television, he abandoned his career and deeply invested in the business sector and today he is the president and CEO of CBS Corporation. Some other aspects of his biography are yet to be discovered.
Moonves Career
Moonves had management experience from the beginning of his career in the corporate sector. He performed works by 20th Century Fox Television as programming/cable commanding the first-run syndicated and pay. After that, he held the position of Vice President, mini-series, and movies. After that Leslie Moonves had its entrance in Lorimar Television in 1985 serving as executive-in-charge of your movies and mini-series, becoming the head of creative affairs three years after his entry into the corporation. During the years 1989 to 1993, he served as President of Lorimar and after this year the station he was hired as CEO and president of Warner Bros. Television and also the Lorimar TV by combining operations.
When Moonves became president of CBS Entertainment in 1995, the network was stuck in last place, and its audience's aging demographics were unattractive to advertisers. He oversaw a turnaround in the network's fortunes, with ratings climbing thanks to reality programs like Survivor and Big Brother. These were joined by popular series such as Everybody Loves Raymond, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Big Bang Theory.
In 1998 Moonves became CEO of CBS Television. After Sumner Redstone's Viacom acquired CBS in 1999, Moonves continued to ascend the corporate ladder, becoming chairman and CEO of CBS in April 2003. He was named co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom in 2004. In 2006, to combat a decline in stock price, Redstone split up Viacom and CBS. Moonves became president and CEO of CBS Corp., overseeing CBS as well as entities such as publisher Simon & Schuster and cable network Showtime. In 2016 Moonves became chairman of the CBS board.
Moonves' time at the helm saw CBS prosper. Under his watch CBS All Access, a streaming subscription service, was created. He prompted CBS to produce more of its own programming, instead of licensing shows from other production houses. And he saw CBS successfully demand programming fees from cable and satellite operators.Among the missteps of Moonves' CBS tenure was the decision to hire Katie Couric to headline the nightly news for $15 million a year, as ratings success didn't follow. Moonves headed the company when CBS News aired a 60 Minutes Wednesday segment with improperly vetted documents (an incident that came to be known as "Memogate"), and when Charlie Roses resid departed CBS This Morning following allegations of Rose's own sexual misconduct.
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
