Salerno Named to CBS Board

CBS Corp. named Frederic V. Salerno to its board of directors. Salerno is a retired vice chairman and CFO of Verizon Communications, and also held those titles at Verizon predecessor Bell Atlantic.

Salerno was elected to his position on the CBS board.

He's also a director of Viacom [www.viacom], Akamai Technologies and Bear Stearns, among others.

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.