Sean McManus Promoted to Chairman of CBS Sports

-- The announcement was made on February 8, 2011 by Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation:

"Sean McManus, who has served as president of CBS News and Sports since 2005, has been promoted to the position of Chairman, CBS Sports. In this role, he will focus on the expanding portfolio of sports properties across all CBS Sports operations.

In assuming this new position, McManus will step down from his role as President of CBS News. In a separate announcement, CBS promoted Jeff Fager, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes, to the position of Chairman of CBS News; and David Rhodes, former head of U.S. Television for Bloomberg, to President of the News Division.

"Sports continues to grow into an ever-more important asset to CBS," said Moonves. "As we expand our operations at CBS Sports, CBS College Sports Network and in other parts of our company as well, we will require Sean's uncommon depth of knowledge of the business, his deal-making acumen and his unique and positive relationships throughout the world of sports to keep CBS on top of that game. I know all of us at CBS congratulate him on his new position as Chairman of CBS Sports."

Moonves also expressed his thanks and appreciation to McManus for his contributions at CBS News. "In Sean, we are fortunate to have an executive who is truly versatile and tireless in pursuit of quality and success," Moonves said. "While running our superb Sports Division, he has also done a terrific job steering CBS News through a period of transition and change, and the division is clearly on a better footing than it was the day he arrived. He departs this aspect of his post with CBS News boasting the #1 news program, the #1 Sunday morning broadcast and an award-winning and highly regarded evening news broadcast. I want to thank him for his leadership, and for maintaining the highest standards of journalism throughout his tenure."

Prior to his CBS Sports tenure, McManus was Senior Vice President of U.S. Television Sales and Programming for Trans World International, the television division of International Management Group, the world's largest sports marketing firm. Before that, McManus was Vice President, Program Planning and Development at NBC Sports, becoming the youngest vice president in the history of the network at the age of 27."

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