'60 Minutes' blames Paramount's impending merger for producer's resignation

CBS News anchor Scott Pelley blamed parent company Paramount for pushing out 60 Minutes’s executive producer Bill Owens.

The hit Sunday program has run for almost 60 years and has only had three executive producers — until last week, when Owens made the shock announcement that he would resign from the show after 26 years, the last six spent as executive producer. Pelley commented on the matter at the end of Sunday’s episode, saying Owens’s resignation “was hard on him and hard on us.”