60 Min. Producer Bill Owens To Become Senior Broadcast Producer of Evening News

“Bill Owens, an award-winning 60 MINUTES producer, has been named Senior Broadcast Producer, CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer,” the network announced today. “He will join Rome Hartman, the newly announced executive producer of the broadcast, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2006.

“Bill is one of the brightest behind-the-scenes stars at CBS News — a great reporter and producer with real range,” Hartman said in a press release. “He’s as hard-nosed a hard-news guy as we have, but he also has a great storyteller’s touch.”

Owens joined 60 Minutes II in 2000, and switched to the Sunday broadcast in 2003. He began his career at CBS as an intern in 1988. He became a desk assistant for WCBS, then moved up to field producer, national desk assignment editor, coordinating producer for CBS This Morning, anchor producer, and CBS Evening News D.C. producer. From 1996 to 2000 he was the White House producer for CBS.