Those, they said, do not reflect any drop in the core CNBC audience, executives who are not adequately measured and who the network contends, have remained faithful.
With only one more week before the hosts will have to act all chummy in front of a live, national audience, executives at CBS, a division of Viacom, have enrolled them in a crash course in friendship.
Viacom Inc. is in talks to acquire BET Holdings, a cable television network devoted to reaching black audiences, several executives close to the negotiations said last night.
It is also organising 'sneak peak' events at which trailers will be shown to church audiences and executives from the film will talk about the project.
During his first term in office, Mr. Putin held regular audiences with executives, but the meeting Thursday was the first since November, just after Mr. Khodorkovksy's arrest.
While state legislators and national U.S. politicians play to sharply divided domestic audiences, chief executives of large companies answer to a much broader constituency.
Its epic fantasy "Game of Thrones" broke out this season with record-breaking audiences — network executives reckoned it had surpassed even "Sopranos" to become their most-watched series ever, after all the available platforms are counted — and received the most Emmy nominations of any program this year, with 19.
That, it turns out, is the audience Home Depot executives are trying to reach.
"The fact is that to fully provide the necessary protection in our democracy, cybersecurity must be passed by the Congress," he told his audience, Business Executives for National Security.
