CBS ceo Les Moonves spoke to investors at yesterday’s Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference. The focus of his reported remarks was to underscore that their standoff with Time Warner Cable would have no effect on their earnings. But Moonves did also specifically say what his publisher has told us in the past: “We have no intention of selling Simon & Schuster.” (Yes, we know publishing word parsers will focus on “intention.”) The publisher’s relationships helped contribute to the parent company’s overall success this summer with the special Under the Dome series on CBS, based on […]
