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Radio host Don Imus is going to sue CBS for $120 million, according to a draft copy of the complaint obtained by ABC News' Law & Justice Unit. The suit is expected to be filed next week. A draft copy of Imus's lawsuit says that the network expected him to be controversial and irreverent under the terms of his contract. And he claims Imus's show was on a five second delay that allowed the network to censor him if they wanted. The draft points out that Imus wasn't fired for two weeks after the remarks were made. Meanwhile, four former...

CBS (CBS) reported 6% lower first-quarter earnings as the sale of radio stations cut into its bottom line, but the media conglomerate's results managed to top Wall Street's expectation. Shares were up 42 cents, or 1.3%, to $32.23. The New York-based company's first-quarter profit fell to $213.5 million, or 28 cents a share, from $226.9 million, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier. During the quarter, CBS sold radio stations in four cities for total proceeds of $236.4 million. Excluding the gain and tax costs from the deal, earnings from continuing operations climbed to $253.6 million, or 33 cents...

There's been a lot of talk about how badly CBS is doing with its high priced ($15 million a year) Katie Couric as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Back in 1976, ABC News made a big splash into the ratings tank by hiring (at the then unheard of $1 million a year) Barbara Walters to co-anchor its evening news with Harry Reasoner. Like Couric, Walters was then co-anchor of NBC's "Today" show where she had built up a reputation as an aggressive, go-getter and in the minds of some, a prima donna b***h. As a teenager, I remembered Walters...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday questioned a Kansas television station's refusal to air an advertisement that is part of his antigun campaign. "I think if I were CBS I'd call this local station and say what on earth were you thinking about? You can't censor this kind of ad, if you don't agree with the opinion," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show. The ad features a Minnesota police chief who says federal legislation is keeping him from getting information about where guns in his community are coming from and who is buying them. CBS affiliate KWCH of Wichita said...

CIA TENET: BUSH ADMIN USE OF HIS 'SLAM DUNK' COMMENT TO PUSH WAR WAS DISINGENUOUS, DISHONORABLE AND RUINED REPUTATION AND CAREER Thu Apr 26 2007 14:11:35 ET Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says the way the Bush administration has used his now famous "slam dunk" comment Ð which he admits saying in reference to making the public case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Ð is both disingenuous and dishonorable. It also ruined his reputation and his career, he tells Scott Pelley in his first network television interview. The interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, April 29 (7:00-8:00...

Katie Couric's tour of duty as anchor at CBS Evening News has been labeled an expensive, unfixable mistake. /// Is it entirely coincidental that Rosie O'Donnell is freeing herself up at the exact moment of CBS' great need? /// "She's lined up a deal for a show where she can be more overtly political (than she is on The View)."

Even in the midst of the horrific killings at Virginia Tech, some talk radio shows on networks like National Public Radio are still devoting hours to the botched jokes and ruined career of talk radio host Don Imus. If that topic is still under discussion, allow one last comment. CBS executive Les Moonves finally bowed to public pressure, and immediately dumped the I-Man after a meeting with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton threatening a weekend of ugly protests. The decision was as expected as the spin attached was atrocious. In his twelve years at the top of CBS entertainment, Moonves...

Was hiring Katie Couric to host the CBS Evening News a mistake? Yes, she was a particularly bad fit. No, any morning show-type host would struggle

After six months of dating 33-year-old entrepreneur Brooks Perlin, Katie Couric, 50, isn't worried about the younger-man thing, PEOPLE reports in its latest issue. "The age difference scared her off at first," says a friend of the CBS Evening News anchor, who agreed to have dinner with Perlin a few weeks after chatting with him at a Manhattan cancer fund-raiser in September. Since that first date, the pair have shared nights out at Manhattan's Gramercy Hotel's Rose Bar and the "21" Club, attended the Super Bowl in Miami and gone skiing in Sun Valley, where they stayed at the home...

I only hope, dear readers, that you aren't as sick of reading about Katie Couric, the beleaguered anchor of the "CBS Evening News," as I am of writing about her. But the taint of plagiarism sweeping through CBS News was, quite possibly, the low point of Couric's seven-month tenure. That's saying a lot. Yes, here's yet one more column about the shooting star of the television-news business. I can take it if you can. Earlier this month, CBS put a video commentary on the Internet in which Couric lamented that children take less interest in using libraries than they used...

TWIN COPY CATS TWIST IN COURIC FLAP By KEITH J. KELLY and JENNIFER FERMINOApril 16, 2007 -- Katie Couric's plagiarizing producer has an identical twin sister - with an identical poaching problem, The Post has learned.Melissa McNamara, 32, was axed from the tarnished Tiffany network last Monday night after it was discovered she'd ripped off a Wall Street Journal column for the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook."

If there's one person who should be relieved about the firing of Don Imus, it's CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric. All the airtime and ink devoted to Imus' getting fired from his radio show and its simulcast on MSNBC in the wake of racist comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team has obscured the latest foul in Couric's rocky rookie season. For those of you who missed it: A posting on Couric's blog, ostensibly a nostalgic piece about the use of libraries in the Internet age, not only was ghost-written by Melissa McNamara, a producer on the CBS...

Do you believe CBS did the right thing by firing radio host Don Imus after his harsh comments regarding the Rutgers women´s basketball team? Yes. Even though Imus is a "shock jock," his comments crossed the line of acceptability, and the network was right to take a strong stand against that kind of language. He deserved to be let go. 19 (23%) No. Imus´ comments were crass and insensitive, but the punishment was too severe. If hip-hop and rap artists can use that kind of language in their lyrics, it seems hypocritical to take away Imus´ job on that basis....

Don Imus – The Language of Race by Rick Vassar (13 April 2007) “From the outset, I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air…” - CBS President And CEO Leslie Moonves The level of Les Moonves’ revulsion grew as Imus advertisers began to pull out in droves. American Express, Sprint/Nextel, Proctor & Gamble, GM, and Staples all announced that they were disassociating themselves from Imus and the fray, and Moonves’ outrage grew as the bottom line began to shrink. MSNBC – well that’s a no brainer. Nobody is...

It was just announced on the "Mike and the Mad Dog Show" on WFAN (Imus's home base): Imus is out of a job on radio as well.He will not even be on the air tomorrow.

Most people try to be especially compassionate in the event of tragedy. Then there's Howard Stern, the sewer jockey who was at his vilest the morning after the Littleton, Colorado school massacre. I've read his remarks several times, and part of me can't believe he made them. But then I'm reminded who this man is and how obnoxious he can be when he puts his mind to it. Referring to video footage of the terrified students fleeing Columbine High School, Stern commented, "There were some really good-looking girls running out with their hands over their heads. Did [Eric Harris and...

April 11, 2007 - Media mogul Sumner Redstone says he's looking to his chief lieutenant, CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves, to “do the right thing” when it comes to deciding whether to fire Don Imus, the CBS Radio star shock jock now being whipsawed in a storm of racial controversy. “He'll make the ultimate decision. But I'm confident he will deal with it in an appropriate manner,” Redstone, the chairman of CBS parent company Viacom Inc., said in a phone interview with NEWSWEEK from his Beverly Hills home . His comments come as MSNBC announced it is dropping its...

NEW YORK — A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from the Wall Street Journal. The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday. The essays are carried regularly on Couric & Co., the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once a week to decide on topics and the producers write them for Couric to read on...

April 11, 2007 -- ‘GOOD Morning America” is quickly becoming the ladies’ choice in the a.m. Last month, “GMA” slashed the gap with NBC’s top-rated “Today” show in adult women viewers by about half from the year before, according to Nielsen. “GMA” has also gained ground in total viewers since Katie Couric ditched “Today” to anchor the “CBS Evening News” - and was replaced by Meredith Vieira last fall.

Drudge healine reads ....................KATIE COURIC IN PLAGIARISM FLAP: Video essay was copied from WALL STREET JOURNAL... NEW YORK - A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal. The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying the item should have credited Jeffrey Zaslow of the Journal, the network said Tuesday. The essays are carried regularly on "Couric & Co.," the anchor's blog on the CBS News Web site. Couric and producers meet once...