In 1973 Segal disrupted the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite, an event covered in newspapers across the country and viewed by 60 % of American households, many seeing or hearing about homosexuality for the first time.

* 1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.

* September 24 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS and remains on the air as of 2012.

Initially, 60 Minutes aired as a bi-weekly show hosted by Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10: 00 p. m.

However, when Richard Nixon began targeting press access and reporting, even Safer, formerly the CBS News bureau head in Saigon and London, began to do " hard " investigative reports, and during the 1970 – 71 season alone 60 Minutes reported on cluster bombs, the South Vietnamese Army, draft dodgers, Nigeria, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.

After a six-month hiatus in late 1971, CBS thus found a prime place for 60 Minutes in a portion of that displaced time, 6 – 7 p. m. ( Eastern time ; 5 – 6 Central ) on Sundays, in January 1972.

This proved somewhat less than satisfactory, however, because in order to accommodate CBS ' telecasts of late afternoon National Football League games, 60 Minutes went on hiatus during the fall from 1972 to 1975 ( and the summer of 1972 ).

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

However, on the West Coast ( and all of the Mountain time zone ), because the actual end of the live games is much earlier in the afternoon in comparison to the Eastern and Central time zones, 60 Minutes is always able to start at its normal start time of 7 pm Pacific Time ( 6 pm Mountain Time ), leaving affiliates free to broadcast local news, the CBS Evening News, and other local or syndicated programming leading up to 60 Minutes.

The show's success has led CBS Sports to schedule the Masters Tournament, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and other events leading into 60 Minutes and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, thus ( again, except on the West Coast ) pre-empting the Sunday editions of the CBS Evening News and affiliates ' local newscasts.

However, CBS would, in later years, schedule the film so that it would no longer pre-empt 60 Minutes.

60 Minutes is also aired via CBS Radio on several of their radio stations at the same time as the television broadcast ( in each station's own local market ), such as WCBS in New York, KNX in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, WWJ in Detroit, KCBS in San Francisco, and other stations owned by CBS.

* Andy Rooney, of the CBS programme 60 Minutes, who furiously ends his interview abruptly after Ali G accuses him of racism.

The town became noticed in American media when CBS 60 minutes made a critical piece on the town being the " safe-haven " for American corporations.

In April 1983, Joseph Bonanno and his son, Bill Bonanno appeared on the CBS News TV program 60 Minutes to be interviewed by correspondent Mike Wallace.

In May 2001, while ImClone was still seeking approval for the drug ( then known as IMC-C225 ), the CBS news program " 60 Minutes " aired a story about two cancer patients ' struggles to obtain " compassionate use " of the drug.

Beginning in November 2012, Showtime will air a sports version of CBS ' long-running newsmagazine 60 Minutes, titled 60 Minutes of Sports.

Additionally, a 60 Minutes television episode titled " Ever Since Icarus " ( airdate August 31, 1975 on CBS ) addressed the renaissance of human flying with hang gliders.

After two seasons, NBC saw that Punky Brewster and its principal Sunday night stablemate, the four-year-old Silver Spoons, could not compete as strongly as they hoped against CBS ' juggernaut 60 Minutes, and cancelled both programs.

On March 3, 1991, CBS News broadcast an episode of the program 60 Minutes titled " Werner Erhard ".

* About 200 Years Ago: This skit which ran during 1975-76 ( to coincide with the Bicentennial Year 1976 ) was a parody of CBS ' " Bicentennial Minutes "; in it, Grandpa Jones would deliver a fractured historical " fact " about the Revolutionary era.

She asserted that she had exaggerated information, had been promised a book deal to be co-authored with Hubner for revenue of $ 2 million, and stated on the record that the articles and her appearance on CBS television's 60 Minutes were to get publicity for the book.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

About this time, she also made a one-off musical / variety special for CBS, titled Mary's Incredible Dream, which featured John Ritter, among others.

The female announcers have been featured in almost every medium including television ( CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, The View, Sally Jessy Raphaël, and numerous appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider ) newspapers and magazines, ( TV Guide, Playboy ) and as guests on multiple radio shows including Howard Stern.

The game was televised in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden ( the latter making his Super Bowl debut as a broadcaster ).

The game was broadcast in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden.

The game was broadcast in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden.

The game was broadcast in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden.

The game was broadcast in the United States by CBS and featured the broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator John Madden ( their fifth and final Super Bowl broadcast for CBS ).

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

It featured such popular radio broadcasts as Viva América which showcased leading musical talent from both North and South America accompanied by the CBS Pan American Orchestra under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini.

Kiss and Make Up, on CBS in 1946, featured the problems of contestants decided by a jury from the studio audience with Berle as the judge.

Nimoy was featured as the voice-over narrator for the CBS paranormal series Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories in 1991.

" Many of the openings featured non-celebrities, but some featured stars from TV shows, most of which broadcast over CBS, such as The Bob Newhart Show and One Day at a Time, as well as other characters with a connection to the network, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, dressed as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock ; characters from the Peanuts cartoons ; and Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

The daytime revival of The Match Game, which featured regular panelists Richard Dawson, 1973 to 1978, Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, ran until 1979 on CBS and another three years in first-run syndication.

The fee plugs which had aired in the middle of the show on the CBS version were featured during the closing credits.

On June 22, 2006 Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS ' month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields, and the second of two " semi-final " games in the tournament.

On June 8, 2006, Press Your Luck was featured as the fourth round of Gameshow Marathon on CBS.

From 1939 to 1942, Miller's band was featured three times a week during a quarter-hour broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes on CBS, first with the Andrews Sisters and then on its own.

The character Leonard Hofstadter, featured in the CBS television comedy The Big Bang Theory, is named after Robert Hofstadter.

Another pilot was filmed for CBS, Julie Brown: The Show, and featured a similar theme, in which Brown was the hostess of a talk show and she would interview actual celebrity guests, interspersed with scripted scenarios.