CBS boss George Cheek’s promise to support the team in the middle of chaos and Trump threats

Since the sale of Paramount was globally in front of the federal supervisory authorities and a potential settlement with President Trump canceled in a dispute over CBS news ’60 minutes “60 minutes”, George Cheeks from Paramount Co-Chief, George Cheeks, tried to project a business feeling as usual on Wednesday.

Amy Reisenbach, President of Cheeks and CBS Entertainment, presented the new schedule of the network for reporters in the Hollywood offices of Paramount and drove the winning series of CBS of 17 consecutive seasons.

For the season that ends this month, CBS offers eight of the top 10-prime-time shows on network television. The broadcaster of the transmitter from Originals tops over the competitors ABC and NBC. Last year the ratings rose by 3% – a rare performance at a time when linear TV audience has shrunk.

However, this strength was undermined by the top-class complications of the company with Trump, who brought a complaint last autumn last autumn with the Vice President Kamala Harris at the time for processing $ 20 billion.

Experts for the first change have described Trump’s lawsuit, who claimed that the “60 -minute sequence” was fraudulent and as light -hearted. But the president has remained defiant and said CBS should be punished.

Representatives of Trump and Paramount met with a mediator last week, but there was no immediate solution to the lawsuit. The control of Shari Redstone’s wish to end the Wrangling with a settlement remains a cloud that hangs through the company and its sale.

The cheeks confirmed turbulence on Wednesday.

“This is an unprecedented, challenging time for the industry and especially for our company,” said cheeks about a dozen reporter that was gathered in a CBS conference room. “For me, it is for me to be the most important as the leader as they appear in a difficult time … …

“My biggest goal is to ensure that the team feels supported and we realize that we have to concentrate on what we can control,” said Cheeks. “We’ll get through that.”

When asked whether CBS News and the group would continue to enjoy his support in “60 minutes”, the cheeks said briefly and flush: “My entire team.”

George Cheeks in January at the Lincoln Center in New York.

(Kristina Bumphrey / Getty Images)

The fights with Trump have triggered the entire company and triggered internal protests. The executing producer of “60 minutes”, Bill Owens, resigned last month and referred to increased company pressure on the reporting.

The correspondent Scott Pelley said to the viewers of the “60 minutes” About Owens’ resignation at the end of April and found that journalists were faced with increasing company supervision.

Since Trump’s lawsuit was submitted last autumn, “60 minutes” has remained persecuted in the reporting on the policy of the Trump government.

On Sunday, Pelley reported on how Trump used Executive Orders to address law firms that he accused the judicial system against him.

Redstone has frustrated “60 minutes” for months. It was dissatisfied with the reporting of the program on the Israel Hamas War and its effects on Gaza. According to reports, she asked her cheeks whether more “60 -minute” stories could come that Trump could antagonize.

A Redstone spokesman rejected a statement.

When asked how he would approach a potential uprising within CBS News if the company was supposed to settle with Trump, the cheeks said: “I will not answer this question.”

It has been 10 months since Redstone has agreed to sell Paramount, which includes the historic Melrose Avenue Movie Studio, Comedy Central, MTV and Paramount+, to David Ellison’s Skydance Media, a deal worth 8 billion US dollar.

In the deal, the Redstone family would leave Hollywood after almost 40 years in Hollywood. Ellison and managers with Redbird Capital Partners would take control of the company. The cheeks are expected to remain in a top -class role, according to sources.

However, the Federal Communications Commission has only started preliminary steps to check the deal, from which insiders would be completed by the beginning of this spring.

The two sides are faced with a period from the beginning of October to maintain the approval and to complete the deal. Paramount needs the FCC to agree to the transmission of the CBS Station licenses to the Ellison family.

If the deal is not packed from mid -October, both sides could return. Paramount would owe a significant separation fee.

At the beginning of this year, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump representative, opened a public examination of the Harris interview “60 minutes” to measure whether the changes to the level of the news distortation rose.

The results of the investigation are still pending.

During the presentation, neither Wangen nor Reisenbach spoke on Trump’s announcement of Trump’s bombing of Trump on Sunday that he wanted to impose films that were made abroad, and said it was premature to speculate.

Ask about the feasibility of his proposal, and Trump did not say whether television programs would be recorded. CBS films several shows in Canada.

The Wangen and Reisenbach informed the reporters that their team tried to block the “noise” in order to concentrate on the development of the new autumn plan, a feeling of normality that was greeted in CBS ‘ranks. The annual sales season will begin next week in advance when advertisers place betting in the various network plans.

“George really creates an environment in which we almost feel that we have the room and the room for a noise bubble,” said Reisenbach.

CBS announced eight new series, including “Marshals”, a western drama by Hitmaker Taylor Sheridan. Other new shows are “CIA”, “Sheriff Country”, a comedy called “DMV” and a Country Music Talent search show “The Road” with Keith Urban and Blake Shelton.

Donnie Wahlberg, who will repeat his role from the CBS hit “Blue Bloods” in the new show “Boston Blue”, performed together with Sonnequa Martin-Green, who plays as a detective.

The Wahlberg show takes off the beloved original from Tom Selleck. “No” Blue Bloods “fans will be disappointed,” said Wahlberg.

To them will be a cook-off entitled “America’s Culinary Cup” with Padma Lakshmi and “Harlan Coben’s last turn”.