Best entertainment president of the CBS TV network

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Continuing on from my prior thread about the best entertainment president of the American Broadcasting Company.

• Hubbell Robinson (1947–1959; 1962–1963)
  
• Louis G. Cowan (1958–1959)
  
• James T. Aubrey (1958–1965)
  
• Michael Dann (1963–1970)
  
• Fred Silverman (1970–1975)
  
• Lee Currlin (1975–1977)
  
• Robert A. Daly (1977–1980)
  
• Bud Grant (1980–1987)
  
• Kim Lemasters (1987–1989)
  
• Jeff Sagansky (1989–1994)
  
• Peter Tortorici (1994–1995)
  
• Leslie Moonves (1995–1998)
  
• Nancy Tellem (1998–2004)
  
• Nina Tassler (2004–2015)
  
• Glenn Geller (2015–2017)
  
• Kelly Kahl (2017–present)

[AMackII]

Bud Grant was the best out of all of them

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I have a hard time discussing Les Moonves. Even though he's a creep and scumbag in his personal life, it's still one of those "give the devil his due" type of situations with the way that he helped turn CBS' fortunes around in the '90s and 2000s:

The first rung on his climb to the top of CBS was turning around its flagship broadcast network, which remained his alpha and omega for the rest of his run even as the company acquired other assets. In the mid-1990s, CBS was light-years removed from its current front-running state. The network had lost lucrative NFL rights and in prime-time sat in the ratings cellar, clinging to old-fashioned shows like the decade-old Murder She Wrote.

Moonves, with a large Rolodex and showman’s instincts, displayed a knack for assembling programming lineups and he soon led the network from worst to first. The core hits were sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, CSI and reality television’s first blockbuster, Survivor. As the 20th century gave way to the 21st, CBS would occupy the No. 1 spot in total viewers, a place it has held for 15 of the past 16 years. The turnaround ranked with those pulled off by Fred Silverman at ABC in the 1970s and Brandon Tartikoff at NBC in the 1980s.

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1. What were the pros and cons of Hubbell Robinson's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
2. What were the pros and cons of Louis G. Cowan's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
3. What were the pros and cons of James T. Aubrey's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
4. What were the pros and cons of Michael Dann's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
5. What were the pros and cons of Fred Silverman's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
6. What were the pros and cons of Lee Currlin's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
7. What were the pros and cons of Robert A. Daly's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
8. What were the pros and cons of Bud Grant's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
9. What were the pros and cons of Kim Lemasters' tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
   
10. What were the pros and cons of Jeff Sagansky's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
11. What were the pros and cons of Peter Tortorici's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
12. What were the pros and cons of Leslie Moonves' tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
13. What were the pros and cons of Nancy Tellem's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
14. What were the pros and cons of Nina Tassler's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
15. What were the pros and cons of Glenn Geller's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
16. What were the pros and cons of Kelly Kahl's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?
    
17. What were the pros and cons of Amy Reisenbach's tenure as CBS' entertainment president?

[Dude111]

Hubbell Robinson

Bud was good also........