CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase Director Rick Najera Resigns Over Harassment Allegations
The director of the annual CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Show, Rick Najera, has resigned from the role over allegations of inappropriate comments.

The director of the annual CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Show, Rick Najera, has resigned from the role over allegations of inappropriate comments.
Media Research Center Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Monday to discuss the media’s refusal to touch the Hillary Clinton Uranium One story and other topics.
As the NFL’s 2017 season began, all the league’s broadcast partners were deeply interested in showing the national anthem in order to highlight the protests by millionaire players. But, as Week 6 hit and ratings had slipped to record lows, those same broadcasters began to end their attention on the protests to avoid angering millions of NFL fans.
The NFL is scheduled to have a meeting on Tuesday to discuss, as Commissioner Goodell puts, moving “past the anthem controversy.” For CBS, the NFL couldn’t move past the anthem controversy fast enough.
It’s quite appropriate that a man who refuses to actually speak on his own future, would choose to subtweet the retracted story about his promise to stand for the anthem. It’s even more appropriate that he would choose to subtweet it while channeling someone else.
The woman perhaps, most singularly responsible for Colin Kaepernick remaining a free agent, and out of the NFL, has spoken. Much like you would expect, her words do not bode well for Kaepernick’s chances of resuming his career.
The NFL just learned a tremendously useful lesson, that will serve them well if they choose to continue to apply it. What is that lesson? Simply this: if you don’t protest, more people will watch your games.
The former CBS lawyer — who was fired for commenting that she was unsympathetic toward the “country music fans” who were victims of the Las Vegas shooting because they are often “Republican gun toters” — claims she is receiving online threats.
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny pointed out in an interview Monday after the Las Vegas shooting that many country music fans are “likely” supporters of President Donald Trump.
Hayley Geftman-Gold, who served as senior counsel for strategic transactions at CBS, was fired Monday afternoon by the network. In a social media post, Geftman-Gold wrote that, for partisan reasons, she is “not even sympathetic” to the 50-plus murdered and 400-plus hospitalized during Sunday’s shooting massacre in Las Vegas.
Update: CBS said in a statement Monday afternoon that the employee had been fired. “This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS. Her views
CBS is currently in the early stages of developing a legal TV drama loosely based on the life and career of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Deadline reports.
The third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, airing Sunday, will make franchise history as actor Anthony Rapp will portray Lieutenant Stamets, the first openly gay Trek TV series character.
The widespread NFL protests against the national anthem are causing fans to reassess their interests in football, but the protests also seem to be causing investors to reconsider their actions
At any other point in history a magazine calling itself Sports Illustrated, putting out a cover which had no sports in it, might seem odd. Then again, few other points in history have been as dumb as 2017.
Websites owned by CBS subsidiary Showtime secretly used viewers’ web browsers to mine cryptocurrency over the weekend, according to a report.
With President Donald J. Trump entering the anthem debate, expect player protests aplenty at NFL Stadiums around the country. Also expect some very good games, with the Atlanta Falcons-Detroit Lions game at the top of the list.
The topic of illegal immigration in America is getting another Hollywood treatment with ABC’s announcement Wednesday that it’s developing a comedy series about an undocumented family.
If NFL fans continue to turn away from football, the TV networks could lose as much as $200 million in earnings, according to a new report.
The NFL has suffered new lows for the second week on CBS with a double-digit fall over last year’s ratings.
The NFL was underwhelming during the first week of the season, and merely whelming during the second week. Fox saw a massive ratings surge in Week 2, however, CBS and NBC saw their numbers go down compared to last year.
Tom Brady had praise for quarterback Colin Kaepernick when asked if the free agent still has the ability to play in the NFL. “I sure hope so,” Brady said in an interview with CBS’s “Sunday Morning.” “I’ve always watched [Kaepernick] and admired
President Donald Trump watched and enjoyed Steve Bannon’s interview with CBS anchor Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes, according to a report.
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon expressed his belief during his extensive 60 Minutes interview with Charlie Rose that exerting further pressure on China is the only way to solve the impending threat from North Korea.
White House reporters grilled Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday, asking her multiple questions about former chief strategist Steve Bannon following his interview with CBS that aired Sunday evening.
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon laid out his stance on immigration in an exchange with Charlie Rose on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday evening, saying that American citizens were the ones who built this country from its founding.
With the 2017-18 NFL season fairly begun, many are wondering how the broadcast networks will cover the expected national anthem protests, and a recent story shows broadcasters pledging to cover the protests without making a big deal of them.
Late Show host Stephen Colbert delivered a Nazi salute during his Thursday night monologue on the CBS show, while discussing President Donald Trump’s response to the political violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon believes that Americans should shun white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and the KKK.
Actress and activist Gina Rodriguez is developing two undocumented immigrant-focused dramas at CBS and The CW.
CBS’s Charlie Rose was at the famed “Breitbart Embassy” in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to film a marquee segment for Sunday’s 60 Minutes broadcast.
CBS analyst Bill Cowher thinks that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick isn’t really very serious about returning to the game.
No one should be surprised, that a member of the mainstream sports media attempted to work a pro-Kaepernick statement into the buzz surrounding Mayweather-McGregor fight night. Though, who saw it coming before 3 o’clock eastern?
After successfully pressuring CBS Corp. to pledge to boost employment of Latino actors and writers, The National Latino Media Council (NLMC) says it will launch a year-long campaign of “militant” action aimed at increasing the representation of Latinos in various programming positions on ABC, NBC, and FOX.
A majority of Republicans favor President Donald Trump’s response to the attacks in Charlottesville, according to a CBS poll.
Announcer pairings for the upcoming NFL season have come out, and CBS has put together several interesting broadcasting teams.
Interestingly, CBS has placed Beth Mowins alongside former kicker and new analyst Jay Feely for a September 24th broadcast of the Lions and Colts.
Boca Ratan police officers arrested former CBS Sports radio host and NBA reporter, Ethan Skolnick, for beating up his father, charging him with “battery on a person 65 years of age or older.”
Veteran late-night host David Letterman is set to make his TV return with a new Netflix series two years after signing off as host of CBS’ ‘The Late Show.’
Actress Jessica Chastain slammed CBS on social media Thursday over the network’s lack of female leads in shows slated for its fall lineup.
In another bizarre case of misplaced mainstream media priorities, U.S. television networks favored the death of a sea mammal over the fight to save a British baby.