This Listicle Reveals Powerful Television Executives are Powerful in Television

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TV Week’s annual popularity contest, the “10 Most Powerful,” puts the industry’s paycheck writers in handy listicle format, which makes it easier to know where to direct your The Man anger. Taking the No. 1 spot is NBC News president Steve Capus, whose most recent accomplishment was afflicting morning people with Kathie Lee Gifford. Obvious choices follow: Fox News chief Roger Ailes, ABC News prez David Westin, NBC’s D.C. bureau chief Tim Russert, CNN Worldwide/U.S. president Jim Walton/Jon Klein, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, CBS News prez Sean McManus, and, at No. 9, television rep powerhouse N.S. Bienstock.

And taking the No. 10 spot are a trio of comedians: Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart. These folks made the cut for getting the other members on the list to … START DOING THEIR JOBS.

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