CBS News wanted Oprah Winfrey's Lance Armstrong interview "badly," chairman Jeff Fager told reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Association press tour. Well, the news division will get a first bite of that interview when Winfrey appears live Tuesday on CBS This Morning. The full interview will air Jan. 17 on OWN.
Winfrey has appeared multiple times on the CBS News morning program, which is co-hosted by her good friend Gayle King.
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Winfrey's interview with Armstrong took place Monday at Armstrong's Austin, Texas home. In it, he is expected to finally admit that he used banned substances while racking up seven Tour de France titles.
CBS' 60 Minutes has done multiple pieces critical of Armstrong including correspondent Scott Pelley’s 2011 interview with teammate Tyler Hamilton that helped blow the lid off the investigation into doping by Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service team. And the premiere of the newsmagazine’s Showtime edition 60 Minutes Sports on Jan. 9 included a piece about Armstrong’s attempt in 2004 to donate $250,000 to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the same body that found Armstrong had used banned substances causing him to be stripped of his Tour de France titles.
