LESLIE MOONVES
Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Viacom
Chairman, CBS
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Leslie Moonves was named Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom in June 2004. In this new role, he oversees all of Viacom's domestic and international broadcast television operations, its radio division and its outdoor advertising operations. Included in this vast area of oversight are CBS, UPN, CBS Enterprises, King World, the Viacom Television Stations Group, Paramount Television, Infinity Broadcasting and Viacom Outdoor.

In addition, Moonves continues to serve as Chairman of CBS. He was promoted to Chairman and CEO of CBS in 2003, and prior to that, was President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Television, a position he was elevated to in April 1998. He joined CBS in July 1995 as President, CBS Entertainment.

Moonves' impact at CBS has been felt across all divisions. Under his leadership, CBS has been the top-rated network in three of the past five seasons and its primetime lineup has become the most profitable of all the broadcast networks; CBS Entertainment has developed hit programs that appeal to a broad audience; CBS Productions, which was recently merged into Paramount Network Television, has been a leading supplier of programming; CBS Sports is the most prolific supplier of television sports impressions in the industry; CBS News continues to distinguish itself as the industry's pre-eminent news operation by breaking major stories such as the Iraqi prison abuse scandal; UPN, thanks to hit shows like "America's Next Top Model," has made a turn-around, the reality series' second cycle helped increase the network's ratings among 18-34 female viewers; and King World Productions continues to be the industry's top supplier of syndicated programming, including hit shows such as "Wheel Of Fortune," "Jeopardy!," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Dr. Phil," and off-network shows such as "Everybody Loves Raymond."

Under Moonves' aegis, CBS has also developed television's Number One drama, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"; the king of reality series, "Survivor"; and hit series such as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "The King of Queens," "CSI: Miami" and "Without A Trace."

These efforts have paid huge dividends for the Network, which last season placed first in the November, February and May sweeps for the second consecutive year. CBS finished the 2003-2004 season as America's Most Watched Network, winning by its largest margin of victory, more than two million viewers, in 14 years. The Network also won in the adults 25-54 demographic for the first time since 1980. And it narrowed the gap to just 0.03 of a rating point behind NBC in the 18-49 demo, its best competitive position since 1993.

In the latest Upfront, the period when the Networks sell the majority of their commercial time for the year to advertisers, CBS and UPN were the only networks to improve their advertising sales from the previous year, with both earning double-digit CPM increases.

Moonves joined CBS from Warner Bros. Television, where as President, he oversaw a television division that supplied the greatest number of programs to network television for nine consecutive years, culminating in a record-setting 22 series (including "ER," "Friends" and "The Drew Carey Show") on the 1995-96 network schedules. He had been President of Warner Bros. Television since July 1993, when Warner Bros. and Lorimar Television combined operations. From 1989 to 1993, he had been President of Lorimar Television. He joined the company in 1985 as executive in charge of its movies and mini-series, and became head of creative affairs in 1988. Series under his aegis include "Dallas," "Knots Landing" and "Falcon Crest," on CBS, and "Perfect Strangers," "Full House," "Max Headroom," "Homefront," "Reasonable Doubts" and "I'll Fly Away."

Earlier in his career, Moonves was Vice President of movies and mini-series for Twentieth Century Fox Television, where he was also in charge of first-run syndication and pay/cable programming. He had previously been Vice President, development, for Saul Ilson Productions (in association with Columbia Pictures Television) and a development executive for Catalina Productions.

Upon graduation from Bucknell University, Moonves pursued an acting career at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, studying under the renowned Sanford Meisner. He performed in numerous stage and television productions before opting to produce plays on Broadway and in Los Angeles.

Moonves is a member of the NCAA Advisory Board, the board of directors of the Los Angeles Free Clinic and the board of trustees of the Entertainment Industries Council. He is a trustee of the National Council for Families and Television and of the American Film Institute and is past president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He is also co-chair of the Los Angeles Board of Governors of the Museum of Television & Radio.

In March 2003, Moonves was honored by the International Radio and Television Society as the recipient of the Gold Medal Award, one of most prestigious honors in media and entertainment. Since joining CBS, Moonves has also been named Variety's Showman of the Year and Entertainment Weekly's Most Powerful Man in Hollywood and received the Casting Society of America's Career Achievement Award.

He is also a past recipient of the American Jewish Committee's Sherrill Corwin Award, given to outstanding leaders in the entertainment and communications industry.