On 6/6/2022 2:20 PM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <t7lp92$9k8$3@gioia.aioe.org>, trotsky <gmsingh@email.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/2022 12:45 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>> In article <t7l4ld$qrd$3@dont-email.me>, Adam H. Kerman
>>> <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill Idgerant <Noname@fake.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's barely June and already 60 Minutes is doing clip shows. They
>>>>> started on Memorial Day weekend re-running some earlier stuff and same
>>>>> thing this past Sunday. (Sigh)
>>>>
>>>> Well, you know, they ran out of news to produce segments about.
>>>>
>>>> It's actually pretty outrageous that they cannot manage to produce a
>>>> news magazine show weekly without interruption.
>>>
>>>
>>> They have more than enough talent and resources in that building to do
>>> so. They just don't care to spend the money or take the time.
>>>
>>> That shop should be humming year round.
>>
>>
>> Weird, you'd think the thirty or forty years of history the show has (I
>> think it's more than that actually) would be enough to see a pattern.
>> 60 minutes contributors are a select group so when the work is up them
>> and the network.
>
>
> It premiered in 1968 and didn't do anything until CBS slotted it in the
> so-called Disney hour on Sunday nights in 1972. That prime-time hour
> was reserved for public service programming and Disney. During the
> rest of the week, prime time had been rolled back to 8 p.m. ET. That
> was supposed to open the earlier hour to different kinds of
> entertainment programming by independent producers, but all that
> happened was that we got Entertainment Tonight, quiz shows and so on.
>
I.E. entertainment programming by independent producers. :D

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