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tonyz · 03-10-2011, 10:56

60 Minutes has a room full of Emmy's - many earned from investigative journalism - info from 60 Minutes web site.

Seems Mr. O'Keefe and 60 Minutes may share some tactics.

One, however, is big budget MSM the other is not.

Program Facts

"60 Minutes," the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 43rd season in September 2010. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2010, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Over the 2009-'10 season, "60 Minutes" continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 13.2 million viewers per week - more than twice those of its network news magazine competitors and more than five million viewers ahead of the most-watched daily network evening news broadcast. The average audience for a "60 Minutes" broadcast still dwarfs the biggest audiences drawn by cable news programs.

About a million more people listen to the "60 Minutes" radio simulcast in several major cities and hundreds of thousands each week experience "60 Minutes" online. The broadcast's segments can be watched at 60Minutes.com, while a new sister site, 60MinutesOvertime.com, offers content originally produced for the Web only, including behind-the-scenes video about the production of "60 Minutes" stories and timely archival segments. The broadcast's content can also be watched on the iPad; its application is one of the most popular paid apps in Apple's App Store.

"60 Minutes" has won more Emmy Awards than any other primetime broadcast, including a special Lifetime Achievement Emmy. It has also won every major broadcast journalism award over its tenure, including 18 Peabody and 13 DuPont Columbia University awards for excellence in television broadcasting. Other distinguished awards won multiple times include the George Polk, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow, Investigative Reporters and Editors, RFK Journalism, Sigma Delta Chi and Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting.

"60 Minutes" was created by the late Don Hewitt and premiered on CBS Sept. 24, 1968. Jeff Fager is the program's executive producer. The correspondents and contributors of "60 Minutes" are Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Steve Kroft, Lara Logan, Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Charlie Rose, Morley Safer, Bob Simon and Lesley Stahl. Andy Rooney, the broadcast's commentator, began his regular on-air segment, "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" in 1978.

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tonyz Area Commander Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,792	60 minutes 60 Minutes has a room full of Emmy's - many earned from investigative journalism - info from 60 Minutes web site. Seems Mr. O'Keefe and 60 Minutes may share some tactics. One, however, is big budget MSM the other is not. Program Facts "60 Minutes," the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 43rd season in September 2010. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2010, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Over the 2009-'10 season, "60 Minutes" continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 13.2 million viewers per week - more than twice those of its network news magazine competitors and more than five million viewers ahead of the most-watched daily network evening news broadcast. The average audience for a "60 Minutes" broadcast still dwarfs the biggest audiences drawn by cable news programs. About a million more people listen to the "60 Minutes" radio simulcast in several major cities and hundreds of thousands each week experience "60 Minutes" online. The broadcast's segments can be watched at 60Minutes.com, while a new sister site, 60MinutesOvertime.com, offers content originally produced for the Web only, including behind-the-scenes video about the production of "60 Minutes" stories and timely archival segments. The broadcast's content can also be watched on the iPad; its application is one of the most popular paid apps in Apple's App Store. "60 Minutes" has won more Emmy Awards than any other primetime broadcast, including a special Lifetime Achievement Emmy. It has also won every major broadcast journalism award over its tenure, including 18 Peabody and 13 DuPont Columbia University awards for excellence in television broadcasting. Other distinguished awards won multiple times include the George Polk, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow, Investigative Reporters and Editors, RFK Journalism, Sigma Delta Chi and Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting. "60 Minutes" was created by the late Don Hewitt and premiered on CBS Sept. 24, 1968. Jeff Fager is the program's executive producer. The correspondents and contributors of "60 Minutes" are Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Steve Kroft, Lara Logan, Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Charlie Rose, Morley Safer, Bob Simon and Lesley Stahl. Andy Rooney, the broadcast's commentator, began his regular on-air segment, "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" in 1978. Last edited by tonyz; 03-10-2011 at 11:15.
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