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Trouble at CBS Runs Wide and Deep

Evening News turmoil is last thing Moonves needs

By Jim O'Neill, Newser User

Posted Apr 14, 2008 11:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – With trouble plaguing most divisions of CBS, last week's flap over Katie Couric's contract was just one of the countless items on Les Moonves' to-do list, the New York Times reports. Ad sales are down industry-wide, Fox is on the tail of the prime-time division... Read full story »

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