CBS Suits Hold Pep Rally for Evening News
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What’s up with that?
Page Six says that CBS executives and talent hosted a peculiar “pep rally” for the revamped “CBS Evening News” — which left some staffers “embarrassed” and “confused.”
We’re told that as part of the morale booster at CBS headquarters, incoming anchor Norah O’Donnell, heavyweight news division president Susan Zirinsky and “Evening News” executive producer Kim Godwin starred in taped “music video” set to a DJ Khaled song — complete with a dance routine.
The paper says that the scene sent heads spinning — a flurry of texts about the surreal occasion bouncing around the industry.
As part of the rally — in which the video was followed by an upbeat PowerPoint presentation about the division’s future — O’Donnell told the crowd that she planned to be in the gig, “until she retires,” which drew some sly smiles from attendees, since the “CBS Evening News” job has been notoriously unstable, seeing off predecessors Jeff Glor and Katie Couric after tumultuous runs.
