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The Match of their Lives | Turkey | Bruno Mars

TV Flash files “The Match of their Lives | Turkey | Bruno Mars” as hour 444 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 9, aired 2016-11-20, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E09: listed hour 444 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 9 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2016-11-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The 45th President” (S49E08). Next is “The Prime Minister | The Alzheimer's Laboratory” (S49E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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The Match of their Lives: Players on the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team are fighting the U.S. Soccer Federation over wages and treatment they say are not commensurate with their male counterparts. Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about tensions and anti-Americanism in his country, a NATO ally vital to projecting U.S. military power. Bruno Mars: He's been broke, busted and nearly homeless. Now, as 60 Minutes' Lara Logan reports, he's on top of the music world.

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S49E09 is listed hour 444 of 767 — hour 9 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 9.

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The Match of their Lives | Turkey | Bruno Mars aired 2016-11-20 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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