The South Jersey Jazz Society awarded its annual Bob Simon Jazz Scholarship to Mainland Regional High School senior Theo Rowe for his exceptional saxophone talent during the 2025 Jazz@ThePoint Festival.
Nickelodeon has named CBS News' 60 Minutes veteran producer and Emmy and Peabody Award-winner Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson as Vice President of News Programming for the leading kids' network, as well as Executive Producer of the recently rebooted Nick News series.
60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 broadcasts for the second straight time. It was the CBS News magazine's third time in four weeks and the 14th time this season that it made the prestigious list.
The American Masters series website has an In Memoriam tribute to award-winning, CBS News and 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon, a Bronx native and Manhattan resident. Watch the video below!
The streak continues for 60 MINUTES. America's most-watched news program made Nielsen's Top 10 List for the eighth time in a row, drawing 11.4 million viewers to land at #6.
Viewers find out everything about Patinkin - and then some - when Simon profiles the accomplished singer, stage, film and television actor on the next edition of 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Nov. 16 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Variety reports that NBC has drafted STATE OF AFFAIRS to series. The CIA drama stars Katherine Heigl and comes from executive producer and writer/director Joe Carnahan (The Blacklist).
60 Minutes has made the Top 10 again, marking the fifth time over six broadcasts that the CBS newsmagazine finished among the week's top programs. The program drew 10.44 million viewers to place #7 for the week, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day ratings for April 27, 2014.
Norio Kimura knows he may never find his daughter's body amid the radioactive rubble of Okuma, Japan, his deserted hometown near the Fukushima power plant.
Norio Kimura knows he may never find his daughter's body amid the radioactive rubble of Okuma, Japan, his deserted hometown near the Fukushima power plant.
He's known as Kim Dotcom, and this former hacker-turned Internet entrepreneur lives in a lavish mansion on a vast estate outside Auckland, New Zealand. He leads a lifestyle that is part tech mogul, part Bond villain – and he says, in many ways, his life was inspired by the movies. “Some characters had private islands and super tankers converted into yachts… underwater homes… I got inspired by that,” he tells Bob Simon.
Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY, will anchor 'Nelson Mandela: Father of a Nation,' a one-hour 48 Hours PRESENTS special featuring original reporting from CBS News journalists who have covered Mandela's life firsthand and using a quarter-century of rich CBS News footage of his fight for freedom and the human toll it took on a nation. The special will be broadcast tonight, Dec. 7, 2013 (9:00 PM, ET/8:00 PM, CT) on the CBS Television Network.
60 MINUTES (S) made Nielsen's Top 10 list at #9 for the week, drawing an audience of 11.67 million viewers on Easter Sunday. The CBS News magazine was also the #9 program in households, scoring a 7.1/12 in that measurement, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, March 31, 2013.
When Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys, they were a miracle. Forced to flee on foot - some as young as 5 - they wandered across deserts and countries as they fled the civil war in Sudan that killed most of their families. Many died along the way from malnutrition, thirst, even from crocodiles at one point. That they survived to make it to a refugee camp in Kenya, where they met Simon, was a miracle. Getting resettled in the U.S. was another miracle none of them could ever have imagined on their years-long odyssey. And, for a few of them at least, the miracles continue, as Simon reports 12 years later for a 60 MINUTES story to be broadcast Sunday, March 31 (7:00-8:00PM, ET/PT).
The Catholic sister at the center of a disagreement between most of America's nuns and the Vatican says one of the reasons for the dispute is the fact that a nun's first obedience is to God. Sister Pat Farrell, who heads the group singled out by the Vatican for doing things like hosting speakers promoting 'radical feminist themes,' talks to Bob Simon for a 60 MINUTES report to be broadcast Sunday, March 17 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.