The senior executive appeared dishevelled during his appearance on the main evening bulletin, the BBC's Martin Patience reports from Beijing.
At Deloitte, Weinberg created the firm's first-ever Executive Communications unit focused on speech writing, media relations training, speech and presentation coaching, and senior executive public appearances.
BBC news executives say his appearance in the control room, a place only open to senior BBC executives, was a mistake.
As an example of how the concept will work, the executives cited an appearance three weeks ago by the Dave Matthews Band on MTV's daily music show, "Total Request Live".
Mr. Collier and the Unilever executives said the appearances of those Unilever brands during the episode were not part of the sponsorship deal.
Hers was a minor embarrassment compared with the bloopers involving some executives as television appearances become a bigger part of their job descriptions.
After he posted the pictures online, Chirayath heard rumblings from co-workers that a blogger took issue with the executive staff's appearance.
"The source of the greatest tension this year between the Legislature and the executive has been certainly the appearance that the executive is prioritizing her national image, her national brand, over the day-to-day operations of state government and the interests of the State of Alaska," said Mike Hawker, the Republican co-chairman of the House Finance Committee.
Mr. Iger said the network flirted with several other ideas for hosts, including Jon Stewart, Garry Shandling and Greg Kinnear, but chose Mr. Kimmel after executives saw a recent appearance he made on "The Late Show With David Letterman".
After Kennedy's Paar appearance, network executives predicted that such guest shots on entertainment programs would be rare.
