[Republican Red]

A list of the Board of Directors - with phone numbers. I like that. I think some BOD's need a few calls today!

VIACOM BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

George S. Abrams
Winer & Abrams
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-526-6539
617-526-5000 fax

David R. Andelman
Lourie & Cutler
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617-742-6720
617-742-5720 fax
dandelman@louriecutler.com

Joseph Califano
Chairman & President
The National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse
633 Third Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-841-5200
212-956-8020 fax

William S. Cohen
The Cohen Group
1200 19th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
202-689-7900
202-689-7910 fax

Phillipe P. Dauman
Co-Chairman & CEO
DND Capital Partners
(need help here)


Alan C. Greenberg
Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.
383 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10179
212-272-2000
212-272-4785 fax

Jan Leschly
Chairman and Partner
Care Capital, LLC
47 Hulfish Street, Suite 310
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-683-8300
609-683-5787 fax

Shari Redstone
President
National Amusements, Inc.
200 Elm Street
Dedham, MA 02026
781-461-1600
781-407-0052 fax

Frederic V. Salerno
Chairman
Lynch Interactive Corporation
401 Theodore Fremd Avenue
Rye, NY 10580
914-921-8821
914-921-6410 fax

William Schwartz
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLC
100 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
212-504-6399
212-504-6666 fax


Patricia Q. Stonesifer
Co-Chairperson & President
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
206-709-3100
info@gatesfoundation.org

Robert D. Walter
Chairman & CEO
Cardinal Health, Inc.
7000 Cardinal Place
Dublin, OH 43017
614-757-5000

[Drango]

If you just contact the advertisers of your LOCAL CBS affiliate, I'm sure the directors will get the message.

[Republican Red]

I think this is an excellent place to target.

According to the Viacom Board of Director guidelines the Board has a fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders not Dan Rather.

http://www.viacom.com/pdf/CorpGovGuidelines.pdf

"The responsibility of the directors is to act in good faith and with due care so as to exercise their business judgment on an informed basis in what they reasonably and honestly believe to be in the best interests of Viacom and its stockholders."

[Tacis]

Guys, Viacom board contacts are a waste of time. The unions do that every time a new contract comes up. The board members turn these letters over to the company PR staff and you get a form letter.

Far, far better is to attack your local CBS affiliate who carried the Rather filth. Threaten to oppose the extension of their license the next time it is up for renewal by the FCC. Threaten to write to the FEC asking for civil penalties against the local station for running political messages pretending to be news (Rather's nightly "defense" is clearly that).

The affiliates can bring far more pressure on CBS and Viacom that a flood of letters. The affiliates can apply pressure; your letters just prove folks are watching/talking about CBS.