Hmmm....
It’s important to distinguish who “hired” Scott at CBS. He was not hired by the network news division. His syndicated TV show has been picked up by some of the network’s owned-and-operated stations, in markets like New York and Los Angeles. It was a programming decision made at the local or station group level, not the network level.
Still, getting your show on the O&O’s is a major step in having a successful syndicated program, so the CBS deal is a very nice coup for Scott and his partners. And, if the program does well, it’s possible that Rasmussen might be hired to conduct polling for WCBS, KCBS, or one of the other CBS-owned stations. Unfortunately, you’ll never see Scott on a CBS network newscast, where they still prefer polling with that special, secret sauce.