August 2005

KELLY KAHL
(Senior Executive Vice President, Programming Operations, CBS)

Kelly Kahl was named Senior Executive Vice President, Programming Operations, CBS, in September 2004. He reports directly to Leslie Moonves, Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Viacom, and Chairman, CBS.

In this newly created position, Kahl oversees the coordination of all CBS programming, with particular attention to how all parts of the entire CBS business unit interact to serve the audience and maximize business opportunities. He continues to have primary responsibility for program planning and scheduling of both CBS and UPN Television Networks, while taking on the added responsibilities of supervising coordination between CBS and UPN's programming divisions and the networks' respective operations in sales, marketing, affiliate relations, research and with the Viacom Television Station Group.

Kahl had been Executive Vice President, Program Planning and Scheduling, CBS, since June 2001, overseeing all scheduling of primetime series, specials, television movies and mini-series for both CBS and UPN.

Kahl played an instrumental role in the strategic move of SURVIVOR and CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION to Thursdays, which instantly made CBS a competitive force on the night. With the addition of WITHOUT A TRACE in 2002-03, CBS won Thursdays and broke NBC's 18-year stranglehold on the night.

Kahl was responsible for moving last season's Number One returning comedy, "Everybody Loves Raymond" to the highly competitive Monday 9:00 PM slot, where it thrived, and successfully relocated "JAG" to Friday where it became the night's most watched program.

Kahl, who had been Senior Vice President, Program Planning and Scheduling, since August 1998, joined CBS in January 1996 as Vice President, Scheduling, CBS Entertainment, following three years as director of network research at Warner Bros. Television. In that position, he was responsible for the day-to-day research operations of the studio and the analysis of its unprecedented roster of series "Murphy Brown," "ER," on CBS, "Friends," "The Drew Carey Show" and "Living Single," among others.

Kahl joined Lorimar Television in 1990 (before Lorimar and Warner Bros. Television combined operations) as a research intern and quickly rose through the ranks as research analyst and then manager, before assuming responsibility for the research department in 1993.

During his tenure, Kahl was particularly instrumental in the selling and launching of such hits as "ER," "Friends" and "Living Single." He also developed and implemented the industry's first in-house testing facility which, under his direction, was crucial to the studio's success during the 1995-96 season, when it placed a record 20 series on fall schedules.

Kahl is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (bachelor of arts, communications, 1989) and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications (master of arts, communications management, 1991).

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