CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler To Step Down At End Of 2015

(RTTNews) - Nina Tassler, who has led CBS Entertainment since 2004, will step down from her current role as Chairman at the end of the year and pass leadership for the Division to a key lieutenant. Tassler will continue with the Company in an advisory role through at least 2017.

At the same time, Glenn Geller, who currently oversees Current Programming for both CBS Entertainment and CBS Television Studios, has been named President, CBS Entertainment, and will head the Network's entertainment programming and creative affairs. In his new position, Geller will lead entertainment programming for primetime, daytime and late night, as well as program development in all genres, including comedy, drama, reality, specials and long-form. Geller will assume his full duties as President of the Division effective immediately.

Since June of 2013, Geller has served as Executive Vice President, Current Programming for the CBS Network Television Entertainment Group. In this position, he oversaw the Company's combined Network/Studio Current department and creative affairs for more than 30 primetime series on CBS and The CW.

Geller has been with CBS since 2001, serving as Director and Vice President of Current Programming at the Network before seguing to the Studio as Senior Vice President of Current Programming. Prior to CBS, Geller served three years in the Drama department at 20th Century Fox Television.

Tassler joined CBS in August 1997 as Vice President, Drama, CBS Productions, before moving to the Network as Senior Vice President of Drama Development in 1998, then becoming President of Entertainment in 2004. Prior to CBS, Tassler headed drama development for Warner Bros. Television, where she helped develop successful series such as "ER."