Former CBS Information boss David Rhodes is reportedly in talks to retake his outdated throne on the Tiffany Community if proprietor Paramount’s merger with Skydance is lastly authorised.
Rhodes, who served as president of CBS Information from 2011 to 2019 and spent a decade earlier than that at Fox Information, is at the moment government chairman of Sky Information within the UK.
His potential return again throughout the pond, reported by Puck Information, comes amid hypothesis that Skydance CEO David Ellison has been wooing Bari Weiss, co-founder of stories web site Free Press, to hitch the struggling community.
The 2 attended the high-powered “summer camp for billionaires” in Solar Valley, Idaho, earlier this month, the place Ellison supposedly held early-stage talks with Weiss about buying the Free Press, in keeping with the New York Occasions.
CBS Information, Paramount, Skydance and Sky Information didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s requests for remark.
Rhodes could be very blissful in London at Sky Information, a supply aware of the matter instructed Reuters.
The community named Tom Cibrowski as CBS Information president in Might after CBS boss Wendy McMahon stepped down over the approaching settlement with President Trump.
Earlier this month, Paramount agreed to pay $16 million sum to settle the $20 billion lawsuit over the allegedly biased modifying of a “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Shari Redstone, chair and controlling shareholder of Paramount, instructed her board she was in favor of resolving the problem.
The deal was anticipated to clear the best way for Trump-nominated FCC Chair Brendan Carr to approve the $8.4 billion Skydance merger.
On Thursday, CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” over what it referred to as the “financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late-night.”
The highest-rated late-night present, launched by David Letterman in 1993, will go darkish subsequent Might.
Colbert was a frequent critic of President Trump.
