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"SUNDAY MORNING" IS THE #1 SUNDAY MORNING NEWS PROGRAM 61 WEEKS IN A ROW
THE PROGRAM POSTED YEAR TO YEAR INCREASES ACROSS KEY DEMOGRAPHICS WITH FEBRUARY 14 BROADCAST CBS News' SUNDAY MORNING is the #1 Sunday morning news program for the 61st week in a row. According to Nielsen live plus same day ratings, the February 14 broadcast of SUNDAY MORNING posted a 3.7/10 with 5.35m viewers, 1.6/08 in adults 25-54. Compared to the same day last year, CBS SUNDAY MORNING was up +9% in households (from 3.4/10), +5% in viewers (from 5.09m) and +7% in adults 25-54 (from 1.5/08). Anchored by Charles Osgood, the broadcast featured Tracy Smith's report on the science behind ...
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CBS NEWS "48 HOURS MYSTERY" -- SATURDAY, FEB 27 (10:00-11 PM, ET)
Actor Johnny Depp fights to free three teenagers convicted of murder. Louise Bashi | Director CBS News Communications | Sunday Morning | 48 Hours Mystery | 212 975-2856 |
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THE EARLY SHOW SATURDAY EDITION LISTINGS FOR FEBRUARY 20, 2010
Chris Wragge and Erica Hill anchor the broadcast. Elaine Quijano reports the news. Lonnie Quinn is the weather anchor. Following the Money: A discussion with three mayors from different socio-economic communities around the country about whether they have reaped any benefits from the $787B stimulus packageHealthwatch: Delicious Diet Meals: Health Magazine's Senior Food and Nutrition Editor Frances Largeman-Roth shares how to navigate diet meals in the frozen aisle and the smartest, tastiest picks out thereObama's Personal Trainer: The only person in the world allowed to punch the Presid...
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ALTERNATIVE "GREEN TECH" ENERGY MACHINE WORKS AND SAVES MONEY SAY FIRST CUSTOMERS OF THE "BLOOM BOX" -- "60 MINUTES" SUNDAY, FEB. 21
Lesley Stahl Gets an Exclusive Look Inside Bloom Energy, One of the First and Most Expensive Clean Tech Startups in the History of Silicon Valley that is Trying to Replace the Electrical Grid With its Invention For the past year and a half, several large California corporations have been secretly using the "Bloom Box," a potentially revolutionary fuel-cell system. Confirming this for the first time, several of the companies report this system is a more efficient, clean, and cost effective way to get electricity than off the power grid. Lesley Stahl and 60 MINUTES cameras get the first loo...
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"60 MINUTES" LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010
BLACKWATER 61 - "Blackwater 61" is the call sign of a plane flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan killing all onboard. The widow of one of the soldiers killed - a pilot herself -- says the firm was negligent in the way it operated the flight. Steve Kroft reports. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer. THE BLOOM BOX - Large corporations in California have been secretly testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. They're saying it's efficient, clean, and saves them money...
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A DOCTOR'S WIFE IS MURDERED AND FOR TEN YEARS A YOUNG MAN'S LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE, IN A LEGAL BATTLE THAT PUTS JUSTICE ON TRIAL-- CBS NEWS' "48 HOURS MYSTERY" ON SATURDAY, FEB. 20
In March 1999, Karen Tipton, a mother of two and the wife of psychiatrist Dr. David Tipton, was found stabbed 28 times in her Decatur, Ala., home. It is a case that has left many victims in its wake - two children forced to grow up without their mother, a husband who mourns his wife, a mother who stands by her son in his fight for freedom, and Daniel Wade Moore, whose life has hung in the balance of an unprecedented legal battle. Moore, then a drug user, was only 24 when he was arrested for Tipton's murder after confessing to his uncle that he was at the scene of the crime. In a move that f...
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CBS NEWS' "SUNDAY MORNING" FEBRUARY 21, 2010 (9:00-10:30 AM, ET) CHARLES OSGOOD ANCHORS FROM NEW YORK
PROCRASTINATION - We could wait no further. Correspondent John Blackstone explains why so many of us are always running late. THE LOST CITY - Legends of lost cities, untouched by time have long been the subject of books, TV and movies. But in 1925, before Jurassic Park or King Kong, explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett set out to the Amazon region of Brazil in search of a lost world...never to be heard from again. Correspondent Anthony Mason reports on the history - and the mystery. SMALL WONDERS - A look at the Japanese horticultural tradition, Bonsai, by correspondent Rita Braver. AMAZ...
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60 Minutes
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LACK OF PROGRESS AT GROUND ZERO IS "A NATIONAL DISGRACE" SAYS SITE DEVELOPER LARRY SILVERSTEIN -- "60 MINUTES" SUNDAY
Eight Years and Billions of Dollars Later, Part of 9/11 Site is Still Just a Big Hole Ground Zero developer Larry Silverstein calls the failure to get anything finished on the site of the 9/11 attack in over eight years "a national disgrace." The frustrated real estate mogul speaks out in a Scott Pelley report examining the problems that continue to plague the project. It will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Feb. 21 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Asked to comment on the current situation at the former site of the World Trade Center, Silv...
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"60 MINUTES" HONORED WITH THE SOL TAISHOFF AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN BROADCAST JOURNALISM
Award Grant Money to be Donated to the Ed Bradley Scholarship ProgramAt the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation The National Press Foundation presented 60 MINUTES with its Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism last night (16) at its annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C. 60 MINUTES Executive Producer Jeff Fager accepted the award, announcing that he will donate its $5,000 grant to the Ed Bradley Scholarship administered by the RTNDF. The Taishoff award was given to a news program rather than an individual this year for the first tim...