Minutes’ top journalist Scott Pelley condemned CBS parent company Paramount in an on-air rebuke of the network. Pelley directly criticized the network in the first episode since the program’s executive producer,

Bill Owens has been with CBS News for nearly four decades. After his internship in 1988, he became a senior producer for the White House beat and later, senior broadcast producer for CBS Evening News.

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,