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Ask Ohio | Thrown for a Loss | The Influncers

TV Flash files “Ask Ohio | Thrown for a Loss | The Influncers” as hour 440 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 5, aired 2016-10-23, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E05: listed hour 440 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 5 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2016-10-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Finding Refuge | The Brothers Rosenberg” (S49E04). Next is “In God's Name | The Pot Vote | The Music of Zomba Prison” (S49E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Ask Ohio - Candidates who win this state have won the presidency in every election since 1964, but with Election Day around the corner, Scott Pelley finds a state divided. Thrown for a Loss - Jeff Rubin says he wishes he never set foot in Alabama. That's where a risky investment he made went bust, losing several NFL players a total of $43 million. The disgraced financial adviser gives his first interview to 60 Minutes about a debacle that became the largest financial loss ever for NFL players at the hands of one investment adviser. Armen Keteyian speaks to Rubin and some of the NFL players caught up in his bad deal on 60 Minutes. The Influncers - Imagine shooting goofy videos with your friends, posting them online and getting paid six figures. That's exactly what many twenty-somethings with large social media following are doing. They're called social media influencers, and they've become a new force in advertising. Bill Whitaker reports on this new advertising phenomenon on the next edition of 60 Minutes.

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S49E05 is listed hour 440 of 767 — hour 5 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 5.

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Ask Ohio | Thrown for a Loss | The Influncers aired 2016-10-23 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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