{"id":1647,"date":"2008-03-21T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/21\/making-millions-when-the-boss-isnt-looking\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"making-millions-when-the-boss-isnt-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/21\/making-millions-when-the-boss-isnt-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Making millions when the boss isn&#8217;t looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2062\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s one of the fastest-growing, most lucrative departments at CBS Corp. right now. But the company&#8217;s president, Les Moonves, has a far more blunt way to describe how the network has turned March Madness basketball into an Internet gold mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople sit at their computers and waste away their afternoons watching basketball games while their bosses are looking the other way,\u201d Mr. Moonves told analysts recently in New York.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the advertising dollars CBS expects this year from online broadcasts of the annual U.S. college tournament starting today, Mr. Moonves simply added: \u201cWe are having our best year, by far. Ever.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: It&#8217;s one of the fastest-growing, most lucrative departments at CBS Corp. right now. But the company&#8217;s president, Les Moonves, has a far more blunt way to describe how the network has turned March Madness basketball into an Internet gold mine. \u201cPeople sit at their computers and waste away their afternoons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}