CBS has announced that Ian Metrose, their longtime senior vice president of talent relations and special events, will be leaving the network. The CEO, who spent two decades at the company, has come under close scrutiny since the New York Attorney General’s report in November 2022 revealed how he was engaged in the focus of the effort. force against allegations of sexual misconduct against his then-boss, a former CBS executive. Leslie Moonves.
Metrose’s activities allegedly included acting as an intermediary with an LAPD captain who provided him with a confidential police report on Moonves’ accuser. Over a period of months, New York AG alleges that he conspired with the C-suite to quell a crisis they believe could eventually knock the head out. (In the end, however, it happened.) Since then, the matter has been the subject of a detailed paper published in February of that year. Hollywood Reporter, as well as a new book, not describedcorporate governance test at CBS.
Metrose and his superiors didn’t answer CHEAPFebruary question. CBS released a statement on March 18 explaining that “Ian has decided to leave CBS at the end of his contract this month. We thank him for his 20 years of leading network and studio events and wish him much success in his next role.”
Metrose, who previously worked for Castle Rock and Fox Searchlight, is married to another CBS veteran, Lauri Metrose. She left her position in May 2022 as a media evp at CBS Studios after two decades with the network, taking on top PR work outside of entertainment at Expedia.
The entourage of CBS executives was identified in its report by the New York AG office as assisting Moonves in his attempt to silence his accuser, a veteran television executive who is now retired. leaving the company – except for one. Thomas Cruthers, CBS’s chief security officer at the time who ran a counterintelligence investigation into the accuser’s family, has since risen up the corporate hierarchy, becoming security director for the network’s parent company, Paramount Global.
