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

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,

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 his departure.