[contessa machiaveli]

redstone doesn't particularly like mel karmazin and moonves is known as being conniving and somewhat ruthless, but he's going to have to duke it out with tom freston who's wonderful products include the cultural icon known as MTV.

BTW, have you noticed sumner redstone's plastic surgery? he looks like an old lady. it's laughable.

[hchutch]

Except Moonves has a lot of egg on his face over this.

If they run it, CBS' name is mud with a lot of people. This will be a bomb, and there will be a LOT of bad press over it. The best bet would be to see if DVD sales in Europe will salvage anything from this, but I do not think that Redstone is going to top off bad press with this by losing a big star (Stern).

Imagine if Stern were to go to FOX Radio Network or Clear Channel instead. Imagine Howard Stern in the mornings, followed by Limbaugh from noon to three. The radio station who had THAT lineup would be pretty much unbeatable.