Within weeks after joining CBS in 1957, Wussler became a production assistant, eventually rising to be an executive producer and a director of special events.
He was forced to leave CBS on the eve of a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meeting to determine whether to penalize the network for its series of specially promoted tennis matches billed as "winner take all" when, in fact, the players had been paid large fees whether they won or lost.
In July 1978, the FCC announced that it would punish the network by shortening the length of a license renewal for one of the five television stations that CBS owned.
But in an interview with United Press International in 1986, he said: "There were some people in Washington with the FCC who wanted to get at CBS, and there I was caught in the middle.
[4] From 1989 until 1992, Wussler was Chief Executive Officer of Comsat Video Enterprises, Inc., where he joined with the Metromedia Company as initial investors in a company that eventually became Metromedia International Telecommunications, Inc., developing independent cable television and cellular telephone systems in the former Soviet Union.