Showtime will debut 60 Minutes of Sports in November, featuring regular 60 Minutes correspondents as well as CBS Sports contributors like James Brown and Jim Nantz.
A subtle turn toward new, younger contributors and an increase in ratings have gratified executives at the venerable CBS newsmagazine. In the season that started in September, viewership among 25- to 54-year-olds, the demographic that CBS hopes to reach, is up about 6%, to an average 3.5 Nielsen rating, from a 3.3. That increase has come even as the show’s total viewer rating has remained about the same.
With reports circling that Ryan Seacrest may join Today, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager says he would “love” to have Lauer on his CBS broadcast.
The popular 60 Minutes commentator died Friday night, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary. Rooney never recovered from complications following an Oct. 26 surgery.
Exclusives
The 92-year-old commentator delivered his final weekly essay on 60 Minutes last night, his last in his 33 years with the newsmagazine. It was a moment, he said he has dreaded: “I wish I could do this forever. I can’t, though.”
A fixture on the popular news program since 1978, Andy Rooney will announce on this Sunday’s show that it will be his last regular appearance. His farewell will be preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career in an interview with Morley Safer.
Sullivan: Stahl Flubbed Trump-Pence Interview
Margaret Sullivan says that Lesley Stahl blew an important chance to call Donald Trump out as a liar on his Iraq War position in her 60 Minutes interview Sunday. “Stahl — busy trying to herd the other rhetorical cats set loose in the interview — did not say what she should have,” she writes, kicking off what’s likely to be a healthy streak of meta-criticism on the media’s closer scrutiny (or lack thereof) of Trump’s claims.
After Lance Armstrong’s lawyers demanded an apology by the CBS news magazine, CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager issued a statement saying: “60 Minutes stands by its story as truthful, accurate and fair.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Attorneys for Lance Armstrong have demanded an on-air apology from “60 Minutes” after the head of Switzerland’s anti-doping laboratory denied allegations the seven-time Tour de France […]
The CBS News producer and reporter who was one of the original 60 Minutes producers and who worked on Edward R. Murrow’s Joe McCarthy expose in 1954 was 90.
Big Bump For ’60 Minutes’ With Obama
60 Minutes landed a big scoop with President Barack Obama’s first interview after the killing of Osama bin Laden, and it delivered a big audience. 60 Minutes averaged 13.8 million total viewers at 7 p.m. last night, up 29% over the 10.7 million who tuned in last week.
The interview was easily Sunday night’s most-watched show on broadcast, with the No. 2 program, ABC’s Desperate Housewives, drawing about 4 million fewer viewers.
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS correspondent Lara Logan says she believed she was going to die while she was being sexually assaulted and beaten in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. Logan speaks […]
Katie Couric may finally get the chance to become a regular on 60 Minutes, now that she is apparently stepping down from the nightly news anchor job. An offer to become a regular correspondent for the prestigious Sunday night TV magazine is part of the package being offered Couric — if she’ll stay and do a projected daytime talk show for CBS, according to several network insiders.
