{"id":1281,"date":"2026-06-03T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:39:08","slug":"cbs-news-gutted-60-minutes-on-air-team-can-this-show-really-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"CBS News Gutted \u201960 Minutes\u2019 On-Air Team. 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Getting the show off to a good start in mid-to-late September is crucial because the program uses the network\u2019s Sunday-afternoon football games as massive generator of audience. \u201c60 Minutes\u201d has for years been the nation\u2019s most-watched news program.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNow the question is whether the show will have enough on-air correspondents and production staff willing to assign, report, write, fact-check and edit three in-depth documentary-style vignettes of 12 minutes to 13 minutes length to show to football fans and news aficionados. Staffers are demoralized by the recent moves and questioning the motives of CBS parent Paramount Skydance, which has been eager to curry favor with the Trump administration as executives work to consummate a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s not enough people,\u201d says one person with knowledge of the inner workings of \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d This person says new episodes will provide tangible on-screen evidence of whether CBS News management was able to get production in gear. If \u201c60 Minutes\u201d offers an unusual number of \u201ctwo parters,\u201d or stories that take up two segments during the show, this person says, it\u2019s a tell-tale sign there\u2019s not enough content in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI feel badly for the people there,\u201d this person says. \u201cThey really don\u2019t have anyplace else to go that\u2019s at the same level, and they have to hang on\u201d in an era of extreme tumult.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe ranks of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d senior leadership have been gutted. Over the past week, CBS News fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega; executive producer Tanya Simon; executive editor Dragaan Mihailovich; and two senior producers, Guy Campanile and Matthew Polevoy. A third correspondent, Anderson Cooper, announced his departure in February. The show has been rocked anew by the ouster of correspondent Scott Pelley,\u00a0 who was fired Tuesday night after challenging Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, and Nick Bilton, a former technology reporter and documentary maker who has been installed as the new top producer at the newsmagazine.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe staff \u201cis just unmoored,\u201d says another person familiar with CBS News. \u201cThey want to know what\u2019s going on\u201d and how the show will have to change to accommodate Weiss\u2019 vision.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCBS News declined to make executives available for comment. There is a sense that others will pick up some story duties, says one person familiar with the situation. Norah O\u2019Donnell, the former \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d anchor, is expected to contribute stories, and CBS News personnel like Major Garrett have done segments for the program in recent weeks. Such an arrangement would likely help CBS News cut some of the costs of the newsmagazine, which are substantial.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1278\">\u2018Boomah,\u2019 Gritty New Feature From \u2018Daughters of Abdulrahman\u2019 Director Zaid Abu Hamdan, Set For Shanghai Film Festival Bow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSince Weiss\u2019 arrival last year, information of that sort has been harder to get, according to three people with knowledge of the Paramount Skydance news operation. Weiss, a former opinion writer who left The New York Times to launch The Free Press, a digital site that often pokes at \u201cwoke\u201d attitudes. Paramount paid a reported $150 million to acquire the site and has melded it with some CBS News operations, while Weiss holds sway over editorial and newsgathering personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt a town hall meeting held in January, Weiss told CBS News personnel reporting the news that they should stop thinking \u201cabout which show will pick it up\u201d or \u201cwhat hour it will air on linear television,\u201d said Weiss, but rather about: \u201chow can we produce the most revelatory stories for an audience that expects the news immediately and on demand. And for younger generations for whom \u2018streaming\u2019 and \u2018social\u201d are simply: TV and the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd yet, the TV shows continue to air.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeiss\u2019 interactions with many producers and reporters since that time have not been frequent, these people say. There appears to be a lot of enmity between the people Weiss has hired to form a CBS News \u201cmasthead\u201d and the people tasked with making sure programs like \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d and \u201c48 Hours\u201d run as they should \u2013 and generate profits, to boot.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPelley\u2019s dramatic exit this week will no doubt create a new sense of camaraderie at \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d says one of the people familiar with CBS News. If Weiss and her team could make new outreach to the group and help them understand her vision for the task at\u00a0 hand, and what Bilton would like to do, this person says, the two sides may find common ground in getting the show ready for the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut many are skeptical Weiss can foment a spirit of cooperation after such a wholescale ejection of top personnel at the newsmagazine, which, despite assertions to the contrary, continues to win massive crowds \u2013 even without football \u2013 and has a healthy digital presence.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the fall, says one of the people familiar with CBS News, \u201cwe will see pretty quickly how all of this actually affected \u201960 Minutes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=1276\">\u2018Bicycle Thief,\u2019 Iroller Media\u2019s Indian Drama, Lands European and U.S. Distribution With Norse Key Productions (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Gutted the &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; On-Air Team. 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