Begins its 45th season on the CBS Television Network in the fall
ON AIR: Sundays (7:00-8:00 PM, ET)
FORMAT: "60 Minutes," the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 44th season on Sept. 25, 2011. 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 2011, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Over the 2010-2011 season, "60 Minutes" continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 13.36 million viewers per week – a 1 percent increase over last season, more than twice the audiences 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.
PREMIERE: Sept. 24, 1968
CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS: Anderson Cooper, Steve Kroft, Sanjay Gupta; Lara Logan, Scott Pelley, Morley Safer, Bob Simon and Lesley Stahl
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jeff Fager
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Bill Owens
SENIOR PRODUCERS: Michael Radutzky and Debbie DeLuca-Sheh
STORY EDITOR: Claudia Weinstein
EXECUTIVE STORY EDITOR: Victoria Gordon
ONLINE EDITOR: Ann Silvio
PRODUCERS: Robert Anderson, Tom Anderson, Shachar Bar-On, Richard Bonin, David Browning, Denise Cetta, Reid Collins, Andy Court, Kyra Darnton, L. Katharine Davis, Franklin Devine, Shari Finkelstein, Michael Gavshon, John Hamlin, Graham Messick, Draggan Mihailovich, Deirdre Naphin, Harry A. Radliffe II, Howard L. Rosenberg; Ira Rosen, David Schneider, Henry Schuster, Tanya Simon, Ruth Streeter, Karen Sughrue and Clem Taylor
DIRECTORS: Robert Klug and Alicia Tanz Flaum
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Press Contact: Kevin Tedesco 212-975-2329 kev@cbsnews.com