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Program Facts 60 Minutes, the most successful broadcast in television history, celebrates its 40th anniversary in September. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the CBS News magazine has been the number-one program a record five times. It also finished among Nielsen's annual top-10 list for 23 consecutive seasons - a record never even approached by another program. 60 Minutes finished the 2007-08 season as the most-watched news broadcast, making Nielsen’s weekly top-10 list 16 times over 33 telecasts. The program 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, plus 15 Peabody awards for excellence in television broadcasting. In the last year, 60 Minutes has won all of the major awards: four Emmys, a DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, a Peabody, an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow award, an RFK Journalism Award and a Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. 60 Minutes was created in 1968 by Don Hewitt and premiered on CBS September 24th of that year. 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, 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. 60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings. Click here for some other 60 Minutes records. WHO WE ARE Correspondents: Anderson Cooper Katie Couric Steve Kroft Lara Logan Scott Pelley Andy Rooney Charlie Rose Morley Safer Bob Simon Lesley Stahl Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Executive Editor: Bill Owens Executive Editor - 60 Minutes Global: Patti Hassler Senior Producers: Debbie Deluca-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 Henry Schuster Tanya Simon Ruth Streeter Karen Sughrue Directors: Robert Klug Alicia Tanz Flaum Contact Us ADDRESS: 60 Minutes 524 West 57th St. New York, NY 10019 EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com PHONE: (212) 975-3247 How To Order Tapes, DVDs and Transcripts: Tapes and DVDs: - Visit the CBS Online Store - E-mail CBS News Archives or call (800) 338-4847 - DVDs from Amazon.com To order a transcript: - Call (800) 777-TEXT (8398) (Transcripts are not available on the Web.)
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