Brighter days on the horizon as we approach the winter solstice

Lesley Stahl notes a ray of light in what's been a holiday season of darkness.

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60 Minutes, the most successful American television broadcast in history, began its 52nd season in September. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 is still a hit in 2020. 60 Minutes makes Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 nearly every week and was the #1 weekly television broadcast three times last season.

The program still averages more than 10 million viewers, more than double the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor. The average audience for a 60 Minutes broadcast is 150% higher than those of the network morning news programs; the audience dwarfs the number of viewers drawn by the most popular cable news programs.

60 Minutes has won every major broadcast award. Its 25 Peabody and 150 Emmy awards are the most won by any single news program. It has also won 20 duPont-Columbia University journalism awards. Other distinguished journalism honors won multiple times include the George Polk, RTDNA Edward R. Murrow, Investigative Reporters and Editors, RFK Journalism, Sigma Delta Chi and Gerald Loeb awards.

60 Minutes premiered on CBS September 24, 1968. Bill Owens is the program’s executive producer. The correspondents and contributors of 60 Minutes are Sharyn Alfonsi, Anderson Cooper, John Dickerson, Norah O’Donnell, Scott Pelley, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and L. Jon Wertheim.

[lulamamie]

I will save the COVID vaccine for others. Long term effects are not in. I am not going to risk my long term health.

[bonniedunbar]

Wait till they get that electric bill. 👍👍👍

[anthonymendoza]

I'm sorry but I don't see them coming. Massive wealth inequality, climate change, debt, political division, repercussions of a badly handled pandemic, not to mention problems outside the U.S (mass concentration camps, modern slavery, refugee crisis)... It's but a bandaid on a large wound. I wish I could be optimistic.