Both CBS News and PBS have fired Charlie Rose amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Rose, 75, is the latest public figure to be felled by such allegations, with PBS first halting distribution of his nightly interview show and CBS News suspending his program following a Washington Post report with the accusations of eight women.
However, CBS terminated Rose indefinitely on Tuesday afternoon. PBS quickly followed suit in making the same move regarding the veteran journalist.
His accusers, all women who worked for Rose or tried to work for him, accused the veteran newsman of groping them, walking naked in front of them and telling one that he dreamed about her swimming nude.
Rose issued a statement saying he was “deeply embarrassed” and apologized for his behavior.
Interviewed last April outside a Time magazine gala, Rose was asked by The Associated Press about Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, who lost his job when it was revealed his network had paid millions of dollars to settle claims women had made against him.
“All of the cases that raise the issue of sexual harassment, which is a terrible thing, (and) has probably been not exposed enough,” Rose said. “Not enough in the sense of the attention in the past, so that people were afraid to come forward. I think people are coming forward now.”