CBS president Les Moonves on talk show host / former supermodel Tyra Banks: “We’re in a new day. We’ve seen with Tyra that the audience is changing. In the past, her audience would have been primarily African-American, but the television audience in general is becoming increasingly colorblind, and younger viewers are particularly colorblind. It’s similar to the pattern we’re seeing with voters and Barack Obama—he and Tyra have a similar appeal to the youth audience.” [NYT]

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