The TV industry is unveiling its coming season to advertisers in Manhattan this week at a series of events known as the upfronts. Three New York Times media reporters — John Koblin, Edmund Lee and Michael M. Grynbaum — assess the CBS presentation at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday.

JOHN Last year, Leslie Moonves was the chief executive of CBS, and he was met by a throng of well-wishers at the CBS upfront after-party at the Plaza. This year?

EDMUND All Shari Redstone.

JOHN The head of CBS’s parent company didn’t take the stage during the presentation, but at the party she was met by a receiving line that included the incoming “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell, the “CBS Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley and the new CBS News president Susan Zirinsky. “Oh, my God!” Redstone said, as she spotted and collapsed into the arms of David Nevins, CBS’s new chief creative officer. Last year at this time, Moonves was at war with Redstone over moves she’d made to bring about a merger between CBS and its sibling company, Viacom. This year, it was her party.

EDMUND She ate it up. And it looked like she got into a deep discussion with Zirinsky. A few feet away was Joe Ianniello, the acting chief executive, greeting producers and stars. After a rocky start, Redstone and Ianniello have come to have a good working relationship, from what I’m told. His interim contract was recently extended through the end of the year, and he’s the one who invited her to the upfronts. She hadn’t attended in three years, she said.