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"60 Minutes," the most successful broadcast in television history, began its 42nd season on Sept. 27, 2009. 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 2009.
Over the 2008-'09 season, "60 Minutes" grew its audience by 10 percent, averaging 14.29 million viewers, defying the industry trend and making it the number-one news program and the 13th most-watched broadcast among all television programs according to Nielsen.
It has won more Emmy Awards than any other primetime broadcast, including a special Lifetime Achievement Emmy. It has also won virtually every other broadcast journalism award, including back-to-back Peabody awards for excellence in television broadcasting in 2008 and 2009 to bring its total to 16. Other major awards won by "60 Minutes" recently include: four Emmys, three RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards, the George Polk award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors award, an RFK Journalism Award, the Sigma Delta Chi award and two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Reporting.
"60 Minutes" was created by Don Hewitt and premiered on CBS September 24, 1968. Jeff Fager is the program's current 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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WHO WE ARE
Correspondents:
Anderson Cooper
Katie Couric
Steve Kroft
Lara Logan
Scott Pelley
Byron Pitts
Andy Rooney
Charlie Rose
Morley Safer
Bob Simon
Lesley Stahl
Executive Producer:
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor:
Bill Owens
Senior Producers:
Debbie De Luca Sheh
Michael Radutzky
Executive Story Editor
Victoria Gordon
Producers:
Robert Anderson
Tom Anderson
Shachar Bar-On
Richard Bonin
David Browning
Denise Cetta
Reid Collins, Jr.
Andrew Court
Kyra Darnton
L. Franklin Devine
Shawn Efran
Shari Finkelstein
Michael Gavshon
David Gelber
Solly Granatstein
John Hamlin
Graham Messick
Draggan Mihailovich
Deirdre Naphin
Catherine Olian
Harry A. Radliffe II
Ira Rosen
David Schneider
Henry Schuster
Tanya Simon
Ruth Streeter
Karen Sughrue
Associate Producers:
Sumi Aggarwal
Joel Bach
Diane Beasley
Susie Bieber
Anya Bourg
Rebecca Chertok Gonsalves
Susan Cipollaro
Joyce Cordero
Coleman Cowan
Jenny Dubin
Meghan Frank
Sam Hornblower
Jennie Held
Catherine Herrick
Julie Holstein
Michael Karzis
Sara Kuzmarov
Magalie Laguerre
Tadd Lascari
Rebecca Liss
Kathy Liu
Jennifer MacDonald
Drew Magratten
Andrew Metz
Jeff Newton
Rebecca Peterson
Daniel Ruetenik
Keith Sharman
Nathalie Sommer
Katy Textor
Kara Vaccaro
Nicole Young
Directors:
Robert Klug
Alicia Tanz Flaum
Contact Us
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EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com
PHONE: (212) 975-3247
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