Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to another We'll Do It Live.

Extended interview, and I am very pleased to have a contemporary of mine with us.

His name is Steve Croft. You know I. 30 years at 60 minutes. 30 years the man survived

at CBS. I survived about eight months at CBS. He's 30 years. Anyway, let's begin with older folks, Americans.

Okay. And they watch CBS now. And it's not anywhere near what it was. What the dues happened?

Algorithms. That's my short answer. I mean technology. The fact that everything's gotten more

complicated, much more complicated, the fact that the, you know, it started with cable TV and it started

eroding the audience of the three major networks.

And it just got down to a point where I think the people that own the networks decided to write it off that it was not that important to them anymore, even though it still

produces a huge amount of money, but that the future was someplace

else.

But, you know, the budgets dwindled, and people had to do with what they got.

But it's also about performance.

So Mike Wallace, before he died, I became fairly good friends

with him. He liked the factory, like Mike, whatever you want to describe me as. He was ornery like me

and kind of identified with it. But you had Hewitt and you had Safer and you had Wallace and you had all of these

pros yourself really knew what they were doing.

Yeah.

And now, I'm sorry, Tony Docapill, is that his name?

He looks like a nice guy, but he wasn't at Chernobyl like you.

And so it's not, it's like a sports team that once had all these superstars,

and now they're in eighth place.

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