Sag Harbor Home Sale A Newsworthy Event

David Rhodes and his wife, Emma, are the new owners of a house on Oakland Avenue in Sag Harbor. Mr. Rhodes is the president of CBS News. It is a rather accomplished family in that his brother Ben is President Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communication.

For $3.75 million, Mr. Rhodes and his wife purchased a 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath home tucked behind Otter Pond in the village. Among the amenities are two fireplaces, formal dining and living room with adjoining front parlor, second-story deck, pool and pool house, and a screened-in porch. By the way, another indication of how hot Sag Harbor real estate is—there were five reported sales last week, with the least expensive being $1.4 million.

Mr. Rhodes, a native New Yorker, got his first taste of television journalism as a production assistant at Fox News in 1996, and he eventually became vice president of news there. In 2008, he moved to Bloomberg as the head of its U.S. television, and he oversaw the cable channel’s re-design the following year. Mr. Rhodes was responsible for all programming, development, editorial, and newsgathering.

CBS came calling in February 2011 and he signed on as president, becoming the youngest, at 37, to hold that title in network news history. Mr. Rhodes oversees CBS News content across all platforms—broadcast television, digital live streaming, video on demand, radio, and cbsnews.com. Among the programs directly under his supervision are “CBS Evening News,” “CBS This Morning,” “Face the Nation,” “48 Hours,” and the big kahuna of news programs, “60 Minutes.” Two years ago, Mr. Rhodes launched CBSN, which combines live anchoring with video on demand, and it is available 24 hours a day.

While he and his wife and their two children relax in their new Sag Harbor territory, Mr. Rhodes can reflect on honors that have come his way in recent years, which include the Hollywood Reporter’s “35 Most Powerful People in Media,” GQ’s “50 Most Powerful People in Washington,” and Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40,” though he aged out of that last one in December 2013.