As basketball fans from around the world check out the NBA Finals, the league is trying to get them out of their own houses and into its homes. Fans in Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Japan and India have been able to visit various “NBA Houses,” as part of a bid by the league to create […]

Sharyn Alfonsi, a veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who has worked on the venerable newsmagazine since 2015, said Wednesday she believes CBS News has removed her from the program after she raised issues about the way Bari Weiss, the news division’s editor in chief, handled an Alfonsi report about how the U.S. deported Venezuelan men to […]

How to make big, well, some bucks in late night? According to CBS, the trick is to cancel your traditional show and lease the time to someone else. The Paramount Skydance broadcast outlet, which has been grilled for weeks over its decision to oust Stephen Colbert and cancel its long-running “Late Show,” says the move […]

Worlds are colliding for NBC News’ Hallie Jackson. The Washington-based anchor and correspondent on most weekdays can be seen leading a two-hour program, “Hallie Jackson Now,” that live streams on the NBC News Now service. And on Sundays, she is behind the desk for “NBC Nightly News.” Starting Monday, however, there is going to be […]

The former executive producer of “60 Minutes” took a moment Monday night to issue a warning about what’s happening to the long-running newsmagazine under its latest executive producer — and the people who currently run CBS News. “CBS News and ’60 Minutes’ are institutions, not places where partisans and ideologues should be employed,” said Bill […]

Scott Pelley said he no longer recognizes “60 Minutes” in the months following the takeover of CBS News by Paramount Skydance, and accused the executive set in charge of the news division of “incompetence and unprofessionalism” that have “wreaked havoc” for months. Pelley, in his first statement since CBS News announced his termination Tuesday evening, […]

Lachlan Murdoch has for years downplayed the appeal of streaming when it came to a company like his Fox Corp., which remains one of the biggest suppliers of sports, news and entertainment via the industry’s traditional content “pipes” of broadcast and cable TV. Fox in the past poked fun at rivals who asked consumers to […]

Hold the stopwatch! The new boss at “60 Minutes” believes the venerable newsmagazine ought to be more prevalent in popular culture and the news cycle, rather than merely holding forth in its usual place on Sunday evenings on CBS. “The show is on the air one day, one night, one hour a week, and to […]

And then there were three. CBS News has terminated “60 Minutes” veteran Scott Pelley after the journalist and executives felt they could not find a way to work together following a heated public argument Monday between Pelley and Nick Bilton, the former tech journalist installed last week by editorial chief Bari Weiss. Pelley is the […]

“60 Minutes” is on the clock — in more ways than its new leader might realize. When Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor in chief, named Nick Bilton last week to lead the venerable newsmagazine into its 59th season, she did so at a critical moment. Bilton, a technology reporter who made a move into screenwriting […]

Soon people will have an opportunity to really meet “Meet the Press.” Kristen Welker, the current moderator of the long-running NBC Sunday public-affairs program, will host the first live event tied to the show, “Meet the Moment LIVE,” at City Winery in New York City on June 29. At the gathering, a crowd that purchases […]

Cecilia Vega, one of the “60 Minutes” correspondents ousted in Thursday’s reorganization of the CBS News magazine, says she’s worried about the future of the program and where it may be headed under the management installed by parent company Paramount Skydance. “I have the utmost respect and admiration for my colleagues at ’60 Minutes’ and the stories […]