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Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei | U.S. Eyeware Company Luxotyica | Singer Rodriguez

TV Flash files “Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei | U.S. Eyeware Company Luxotyica | Singer Rodriguez” as hour 306 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 45, episode 2, aired 2012-10-07, 60 min.

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This leaf is S45E02: listed hour 306 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 2 of 30 in season 45. It aired 2012-10-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Afghan President Hamid Karzai | US General John Allen | Arnold Schwarzenegger” (S45E01). Next is “The Syrian Civil War | New Program in Texas for War Vets | Daniel Craig & Barbara Broccoli” (S45E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei | U.S. Eyeware Company Luxotyica | Singer Rodriguez sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S45E02 is listed hour 306 of 767 — hour 2 of 30 in season 45, season 45 episode 2.

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Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei | U.S. Eyeware Company Luxotyica | Singer Rodriguez aired 2012-10-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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