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,

At the end of Sunday's program, Scott Pelley noted the executive producer's exit and cited corporate pressure.

In a rare on-air rebuke April 27, longtime correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine Scott Pelley said the broadcaster's parent company Paramount had become heavy-handed in its oversight.