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Article: Tick, tick, tick: season after season, hard-hitting journalism keeps 60 Minutes on top. ('93).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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On September 24, 1993, 60 Minutes turned twenty-five. The granddaddy of news-magazines beat a prime-time record by becoming a top-ten finisher in the Nielsen ratings for its sixteenth consecutive season. As the show hit the quarter-century mark, its top-billed correspondent, Mike Wallace, was three-quarters of a century old. Famed executive producer Don Hewitt wasn't far behind. That outdated stopwatch had already been going for about 60,000 minutes, and some wondered, as Verne Gay did in a 1993 article in Newsday, "Can `60 Minutes' Keep On Ticking?"
Eight years later, the answer is yes. Now in its thirty-fourth season, 60 Minutes has appeared on Nielsen's ...