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Bob Bakish Exit: Shock Ripples Through CBS’ WHCD Party As Paramount CEO Set To Depart – “Who Knows What’s Next?”
CBS staffers and executives fretted about the future as Bob Bakish, CEO of parent Paramount Globa, is set to exit.
Confusion and anxiety reigned at a CBS-Politico joint party today ahead of the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, with staffers shocked at news that Bob Bakish, CEO of parent Paramount Global, is set to exit abruptly as early as Monday morning. There have been rumblings about Bakish for days as the company enters the final stretch of exclusive merger negotiations with David Ellison’s Skydance. Although it seems Skydance does plan to keep the company intact, at least for a time, network folks aren’t betting on it and were angsty about the future of CBS — and about who might be running Paramount Global in a few short days.
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