{"id":53888,"date":"2014-05-19T17:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=53888"},"modified":"2014-07-04T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:14:15","slug":"moonves-stands-by-csi-ncis-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2014\/05\/moonves-stands-by-csi-ncis-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonves Stands By &#8216;CSI&#8217; &#038; &#8216;NCIS&#8217; Franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Les Moonves<\/b>, President and CEO of CBS Corporation, visited <i>Bloomberg TV<\/i> last week, and he talked about the network&#8217;s 2014-2015 schedule. When asked about the new <I>NCIS<\/i> and <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> spinoffs, <i>NCIS: New Orleans<\/i> and <I>CSI: Cyber<\/i>, Moonves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscreen.com\/articles\/display\/2014-05-16-usa-cbs-moonves-bloomberg\">said<\/a>, &#8220;These shows, these franchises make us hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Actually they both have made more than a billion dollars for the CBS Corporation in profit over those years&#8230;. It\u2019s not broke. Don\u2019t fix it. Keep them coming until America says they don\u2019t want them anymore, and they aren\u2019t saying that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can find the full interview embedded after the jump!<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->Moonves starts discussing the <I>NCIS<\/i> and <I>CSI<\/i> franchises at approximately 1:20:<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><object data='http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/video\/embed\/IO5nafTXRF~8HSCHp0xvRw?height=260&#038;width=420' width=420 height=295 style='overflow:hidden;'><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation, visited Bloomberg TV last week, and he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906,3470,3242,3245,3473],"tags":[3130,2954],"class_list":["post-53888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-cyber","category-ncis","category-ncis-la","category-ncis-nola","tag-moonves","tag-video"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-cyber\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: Cyber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/ncisall\/ncis\/\" rel=\"category tag\">NCIS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/ncisall\/ncis-la\/\" rel=\"category tag\">NCIS: LA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/ncisall\/ncis-nola\/\" rel=\"category tag\">NCIS: NOLA<\/a>","tag_info":"NCIS: NOLA","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53897,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53888\/revisions\/53897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}