CBS Sports Chief David Berson To Expand Portfolio As TNT Sports Chief Luis Silberwasser Exits

David Berson, who has led CBS Sports as president since 2024, will expand his portfolio after the close of the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

The exec will take responsibility for sports across Skydance, the soon-to-be-umbrella over CBS and TNT Sports and their respective parents, Paramount and WBD. The $111 billion merger is due to close on Tuesday.

Luis Silberwasser, who had been head of sports at TNT since the formation of WBD from the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger in 2022, will exit the company. While he presided over a period of incremental addition of sports offerings like Big 12 college football and French Open tennis, the big news was a marquee property that left the fold after nearly four decades: the NBA. While the roster looks different after the NBA decamped for NBC and Amazon as it re-upped with Disney-ESPN, TNT did gain significant NHL and Major League Baseball rights, which Berson will now oversee.

A CBS Sports rep declined to comment when contacted by Deadline. Monday’s announcement by Skydance of its executive leadership team included a mention that the company will unveil a more extensive roster of execs after the close of the deal on Tuesday.

According to CNBC, which first reported the executive shuffle, Silberwasser told employees in a memo about his impending exit. “I have tremendous respect for our leadership and for the leaders of CBS Sports, who are great colleagues and friends,” he wrote. “I fully support the decision and will do everything I can to be of assistance during the transition. I believe in the strategy ahead and, above all, in the people who will carry this work forward.”

Berson joined CBS in 2010 after a lengthy stint at ESPN. He succeeded Sean McManus in the president role in 2024, taking the helm of a major rightsholder whose portfolio includes the NFL, top-tier college football and the PGA Tour as well as golf major The Masters. The new corporate structure will join together the two sports operations that have shared rights to the NCAA’s March Madness college basketball tournament since 2010. The co-venture initially was a cost-saving measure designed to help CBS shoulder the cost of the rights.