CBS is having trouble finding Les Moonves' successor - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 04-08-2019, 08:31 PM

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...shari-redstone

The CBS board had hoped to name a permanent CEO by the end of last month. Recently departed HBO CEO Richard Plepler is among the high-profile names to have turned down the CBS chief executive job -- both before and after he stepped down, reports William D. Cohan. Interim CEO Joe Ianniello would like to stay in the job permanently, but he won't get consideration since he was Moonves' hand-picked successor. "People familiar with the CEO search tell me that there are two obstacles that the top candidates in the industry seem unwilling to tackle," reports Cohan. "One is the allegedly sexist culture at CBS, which transcends Moonves and seems to have pervaded the company, if the leaks are to be believed about the audit that two white-shoe New York law firms prepared—but never delivered in written form—for the CBS board. Fixing a damaged culture can be a difficult challenge for any executive. But doing so while also divining a strategy to enable CBS to compete more effectively against its better-capitalized peers at Comcast, Disney, Apple, and Amazon, to name a few, can be downright intimidating. The second obstacle is Shari Redstone, the mercurial 64-year-old daughter of billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone, who has literally taken control of both CBS and Viacom in the wake of her ailing father’s physical and mental incapacitation."

AMackII · 04-09-2019, 09:37 AM

If CBS doesn't name the new CEO anytime between now & end of August, it will likely impacting the future of its both Daytime & Primetime Lineups with a shakeup twist. But Until then they must list the following people to take Moonves' old job(via prediction):

- Channing Dungey
- Jeff Zucker
- David Goldhill
- Angelica McDaniel
- Kelly Khal
- Brian Frons
- Mal Young
- Stacey Snider
- Peter Rice
- John Skipper
- Dawn Ostroff
- Mark Pedowitz
- David Eilot Hoberman
- Mike Richards
- Brian A. Miller
- Linda Simensky
- The Maloof Siblings
- Garth Ancier
- Edward Lampert
- Josh Griffith
- Randy Falco

I know these names(see above) are not a possibly at the moment because it should take a longer time before the new CBS CEO is named.

04-08-2019, 08:31 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,377	CBS is having trouble finding Les Moonves' successor https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...shari-redstone The CBS board had hoped to name a permanent CEO by the end of last month. Recently departed HBO CEO Richard Plepler is among the high-profile names to have turned down the CBS chief executive job -- both before and after he stepped down, reports William D. Cohan. Interim CEO Joe Ianniello would like to stay in the job permanently, but he won't get consideration since he was Moonves' hand-picked successor. "People familiar with the CEO search tell me that there are two obstacles that the top candidates in the industry seem unwilling to tackle," reports Cohan. "One is the allegedly sexist culture at CBS, which transcends Moonves and seems to have pervaded the company, if the leaks are to be believed about the audit that two white-shoe New York law firms prepared—but never delivered in written form—for the CBS board. Fixing a damaged culture can be a difficult challenge for any executive. But doing so while also divining a strategy to enable CBS to compete more effectively against its better-capitalized peers at Comcast, Disney, Apple, and Amazon, to name a few, can be downright intimidating. The second obstacle is Shari Redstone, the mercurial 64-year-old daughter of billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone, who has literally taken control of both CBS and Viacom in the wake of her ailing father’s physical and mental incapacitation."

04-09-2019, 09:37 AM	#2
AMackII Member Forum Star Join Date: Oct 23, 2015 Location: St. Louis Posts: 17,198	If CBS doesn't name the new CEO anytime between now & end of August, it will likely impacting the future of its both Daytime & Primetime Lineups with a shakeup twist. But Until then they must list the following people to take Moonves' old job(via prediction): - Channing Dungey - Jeff Zucker - David Goldhill - Angelica McDaniel - Kelly Khal - Brian Frons - Mal Young - Stacey Snider - Peter Rice - John Skipper - Dawn Ostroff - Mark Pedowitz - David Eilot Hoberman - Mike Richards - Brian A. Miller - Linda Simensky - The Maloof Siblings - Garth Ancier - Edward Lampert - Josh Griffith - Randy Falco I know these names(see above) are not a possibly at the moment because it should take a longer time before the new CBS CEO is named.