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- Howard Stringer was born in 1942 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He is a producer and director, known for CBS Reports (1959), Wool and Underground Zero: 9/11 & The Mob (2026).
- Was named Chairman & CEO of the Sony Corporation Worldwide (he was previously head of Sony Corporation of America, which was all of Sony's Entertainment Assets, such as Columbia & TriStar movie studios, television units, music enterprises, and home video units). This was a landmark change in Sony's organization because this was the first time a westerner was tapped to lead a traditional Japanese-run company [2005].
- Was responsible for wooing David Letterman over to CBS when he was president of CBS in the early 1990's. Letterman took the contract over a dispute of not being named the successor to Johnny Carson on NBC's The Tonight Show [1993].
- Hired Andrew Lack (former President & COO of the NBC Television Network) to run Sony Music Entertainment after Tommy Mottola stepped down. Lack and Stringer worked together at CBS News in the 1980's.
- President of CBS, Inc. (1988-1995)
- Executive Producer of "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" (1981-1984)
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