60 Minutes
Cyber War | Andre Agassi
TV Flash files “Cyber War | Andre Agassi” as hour 210 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 42, episode 7, aired 2009-11-08, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S42E07: listed hour 210 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 7 of 33 in season 42. It aired 2009-11-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “H1N1 Vaccine | Yakuza | The Movie Pirates” (S42E06). Next is “The Deadliest Weapon | B-Rex | Resurrecting Eden” (S42E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Where does Cyber War | Andre Agassi sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S42E07 is listed hour 210 of 767 — hour 7 of 33 in season 42, season 42 episode 7.
When did 60 Minutes S42E07 air?
Cyber War | Andre Agassi aired 2009-11-08 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?
The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.
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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.
Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…
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- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
Mike Wallace’s ambush made 60 Minutes Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole…
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
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- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Diane Sawyer worked 60 Minutes as correspondent steel — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Template of TV newsmagazine power. TV Flash…
Also in season 42
- S42E01 McChrystal | The Liquidator | A Living for the Dead
- S42E02 The Swindler | 130 Million Tons of Waste | The Great Migration
- S42E03 Golf Company | A Blow to the Brain | The Birdmen
- S42E04 The Kanzius Machine | Drew Barrymore
- S42E05 60 Billion Dollar Fraud | Fight for a Cure | Tyler Perry
- S42E06 H1N1 Vaccine | Yakuza | The Movie Pirates