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CBS CEO Les Moonves: Talks with Apple have stopped

“Last year CBS CEO Les Moonves was bullish about his company’s talks with Apple about a possible game-changer in TV,” Brian Stelter reports for CNNMoney. “‘Apple TV is trying to change the universe a little bit,’ he said last May. ‘Apple is having conversations with everyone about doing their own streaming services,’ he said last October. ”

“But Moonves now says those talks have ceased, at least for the time being,” Stelter reports. “‘We had conversations awhile back, and we haven’t had recent conversations with them,’ Moonves told CNNMoney in an interview last week.”

Stelter reports, “When asked whether 2016 is the year that Apple will enter the marketplace with a streaming TV service, Moonves said, ‘You’ll have to ask Apple that. I don’t know that.'”

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MacDailyNews Take: You didn’t like this, you didn’t like that, so let’s see how you like this cold shoulder.

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