# Les Moonves Longtime [[CBS News]] executive (b. 1949) who ran the network from 2003 until his September 2018 ouster amid multiple sexual-misconduct allegations during the #MeToo era. Moonves's exit — and the boardroom war with [[Shari Redstone]] that accompanied it — cleared the path to the 2019 ViacomCBS recombination. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[CBS Timeline]]. Expand with the Ronan Farrow reporting, the forfeited severance, and the Redstone power struggle.