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Paramount stalls $35 million '60 Minutes' settlement, slowing merger
Paramount has pulled back on a $35 million settlement with President Donald Trump after he sued the media company over a ...
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Trump Expresses Support for David Ellison’s Takeover of Paramount and CBS, but His Lawsuit Against ‘60 Minutes’ Stands in the Way
The president’s comments appear to imply that the Paramount-Skydance deal will sail through the FCC’s approval process, once ...
Person posed as ‘60 Minutes’ producer to hunt for info on Florida land deal
So when a person claiming to be a producer for “60 Minutes” called him May 19, Chipperfield figured it was just another inquiry. The person, who identified themselves as “Oliver,” asked him what he ...
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‘60 Minutes’ exec producer Bill Owens, CBS News prez Wendy McMahon spotted lunching at snazzy Mark Hotel after shock exit
A day after “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens abruptly quit the venerable news show last week, he was spotted lunching at the Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side with CBS News president ...
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‘60 Minutes’ criticizes Paramount on air after its longtime producer quits
CBS News’ ‘“60 Minutes” addressed the surprise exit of its longtime executive producer Bill Owens on Sunday’s program, with anchor Scott Pelley saying that “no one is happy” about ...
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‘60 Minutes’ Chastises Its Corporate Parent in Unusual On-Air Rebuke
By Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company in the final moments ...
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'60 Minutes' calls out corporate owner Paramount on the air, says producer who quit felt interfered with
"60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley remarked on longtime producer Bill Owens’ resignation at the end of the latest episode on Sunday, criticizing corporate owner Paramount on the air for ...
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On air, ’60 Minutes’ reporter says ‘none of us is happy’ about changes that led top producer to quit
“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley paid tribute Sunday to Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer who resigned last week, saying on the air that “none of us is happy” about the ...
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'60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley calls out parent company Paramount
Turmoil at "60 Minutes" spilled from behind the scenes to front of camera over the weekend. In a rare on-air rebuke April 27, longtime correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine Scott Pelley said ...
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CBS anchors salute outgoing '60 Minutes' producer, say effort to settle Trump lawsuit tied to corporate merger
"CBS Evening News" anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois paid tribute to outgoing "60 Minutes" producer while being candid about the corporate pressure the network is facing from President ...
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Who Is Bill Owens—And Why Is He Quitting ’60 Minutes’?
Media Reporter 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens announced he was leaving the celebrated CBS newsmagazine as the network is locked facing down President Donald Trump $20 billion defamation ...
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‘60 Minutes’ executive producer Bill Owens resigns
Bill Owens, the beleaguered executive producer of “60 Minutes,” resigned Tuesday. Owens had been fighting efforts at CBS parent Paramount Global to settle a $20-billion lawsuit filed by ...