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Les Moonves: "These are not the real upfronts."

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Easily the best moment in the CBS Interactive NewFront on Tuesday evening came at the beginning of the presentation, when Les Moonves offered pre-taped advice to both CBSi president Jim Lanzone and the rest of the NewFront audience. After an acronym-filled lecture by Lanzone, Moonves scolded him sharply: "I just fell asleep in alphabet soup!" he said. "If you want the NewFronts to be anything like the upfronts, you've got to be more entertaining than that."

Moonves was scathing on the perceived hype around the digital events, too: "This is not the real upfront," he said to laughs from the audience.

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