About Us
60 Minutes has been America's most watched television program for over 50 years, consistently delivering investigative reports and in-depth profiles. The show averaged 9.1 million viewers in its 58th season and has achieved significant social media success with over 2.5 billion video views. Created in 1968 by Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes continues to be a leader in broadcast journalism with numerous awards and accolades.
- ▪60 Minutes has been America's #1 news program for more than half a century.
- ▪The program averaged 9.1 million viewers in its 58th season.
- ▪It has surpassed 2.5 billion video views on social media, doubling its record from the previous year.
CBS News — Top files mainly under news. We currently carry 1,828 of its stories.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | CBS News — Top |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/about-us-60-minutes/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:25:07 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T15:32:10.779Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T15:32:10.779Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
60 Minutes About Us .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-60-minutes.jpg'); } Updated on: June 3, 2026 / 11:25 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google The 60 Minutes Channel Live 60 MINUTES, America's most watched television program and #1 news program for more than half a century, offers hard-hitting investigative reports, newsmaker interviews, feature stories, and in-depth profiles. The CBS newsmagazine made television history by marking 52 consecutive years as America's #1 news program with the close of the 2025-26 broadcast. The 58th season of 60 MINUTES averaged 9.1 million viewers, and reached more than one in three Americans. On social media, the broadcast surpassed 2.5 billion video views - more than doubling its record from last year.
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