Bill Owens, executive producer of television’s most popular and influential newsmagazine since 2019, said in a note to staff that it has “become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ’60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”
“The show is too important to the country,” he wrote. “It has to continue, just not with me as the executive producer.”
At the same time, CBS parent Paramount Global, run by Shari Redstone, is seeking approval for a merger with Skydance Media, founded by Larry Ellison. They are reportedly in mediation to settle the lawsuit with Trump, a prospect that has been bitterly opposed by Owens and others at “60 Minutes.”
Sounds like maybe we should be more interested to see what Bill Owens does next.
Well, HBO has Oliver, Apple had Stewart, so I’d wager with a Disney/ABC streaming news show, unless they have one.
Apple lost Stewart because they didn’t allow him to even talk about China.
Yeah, I knew as soon as he signed up it wouldn’t last. Apple is not known as a bastion of free will. Everything they do is a walled garden.