Former WWE Creative lead Eric Pankowski has landed at CBS TV Distribution where he will oversee the return of Arsenio Hall to late night this fall, as well as other first run programming. Read more about Pankowski's soft landing after being released from WWE at http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/cbs-taps-wwes-eric-pankowski-as-svp-programming-and-development/.

Powell's POV: Pankowski was let go by WWE roughly a month before WrestleMania 29. I felt the quality of Raw noticeably declined for the four weeks leading into WrestleMania after he was out of the picture, but it's hard to say whether that's coincidental.

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