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CBS News Will Expand ’60 Minutes’ to Audio, Free Streaming and Monday-Night Election Special


CBS News plans to expand the long-running '60 Minutes' to a weekly podcast, a new free streaming channel and to a Monday night election special

The venerable CBS newsmagazine, entering its 57th season, will move firmly beyond its Sunday-evening model with the launch of a free ad-supported streaming channel devoted to its library of investigations, features and profiles — including Andy Rooney’s essays and Mike Wallace’s reports. While many people probably used August to take a vacation, correspondent Cecilia Vega traveled to the South China Sea and managed to get herself and a “60 Minutes” crew entangled in a frightening international incident. In recent years, “60 Minutes” has established a perch on YouTube, and experimented with an extension on Quibi, the short-form video service launched by Jeffrey Katzenberg, that featured an entirely new team of correspondents.

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