The correspondents and producers who work at CBS News’ “60 Minutes” will soon leave the newsmagazine’s longtime New York offices as part of a consolidation of real estate occupied by some of Paramount Skydance‘s best-known properties.
“60 Minutes,” CBS Sports and “Inside Edition” are among the CBS productions that have long taken up space at 555 West 57th Street. All three will relocate to other offices in New York, a CBS spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. The “60 Minutes” staff will move to the CBS Broadcast Center, across the street, a large structure that once served as a dairy depot and now houses the bulk of CBS News, some CBS Sports production facilities, and shows hosted by Drew Barrymore and John Oliver, as well as CNN’s “Have I Got News for You.”
CBS Sports and “Inside Edition” are expected to move to 1515 Broadway, a large office building that has served as New York headquarters for the company once known as Viacom and many of its cable networks, including Nickelodeon and MTV.
The office shuffle is the latest in a gradual downsizing of real estate for the company over the years. CBS, once headquartered in the distinctive Black Rock building in midtown Manhattan, opted to get out of that building once it merged with Viacom in 2019. Employees were notified of the current moves as much as two weeks ago.
Staffers at “60 Minutes” might feel the real-estate pinch the most. The show has for years enjoyed autonomy from the rest of CBS News, and the separate offices, with individual quarters for each correspondent and top producers, only heightened the feeling that the program operated independently from the rest of the company’s journalism operations.
CBS News and “60 Minutes” will start working in closer proximity as the show has been undermined by two different waves of corporate management.
Paramount, under its previous owners, the Redstone family, opted to pay a $16 million settlement to President Trump after he alleged a “60 Minutes” interview with former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris affected the course of the 2025 election. Legal experts believed the case was a flimsy one, but noted Paramount was under pressure to find a buyer and feared the suit would be an overhang. More recently, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss brought new scrutiny to bear on the program after ordering a report on the dire circumstances of migrants deported by the United States held, even though the show had already promoted the segment to viewers. The report, by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, aired weeks later, left relatively unchanged except for additional remarks before and after it aired on the program.
The moves are slated to take place by early 2027.
Source: variety.com
