In an irony of timing, The NFL on CBS was partly sponsored by the creators of ChatGPT, an A.I. firm. As soon as the game finally ended, 60 Minutes debuted. And one of the final segments was a warning about the dangers of A.I. 

A mixed message, for sure!

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Good question. My guess is it's been there so long, it's become a habit. Moving it will only force people to try and find it. And the fear is they may not bother. 

Ed Sullivan, for instance, was always on 8 PM every Sunday night for decades. This was before football was such a presence on network TV. But everyone knew that time. Old habits are hard to break. And the networks don't want anyone to do that. So Sundays at 7 it is.

(Or almost always later, because of football. But hey, who won't tune in to a show that starts at 7:48PM one week and 8:13 PM the next? Has ANY football game ever, ever, ever ended on time? I think we know the answer.)

Well you won't get an argument from me on that! (Odd as it is!) I just think 60 Minutes has been there so long, it's become like a fixture in that time slot and it's become something of a TV tradition after more than half a century. Some things you don't fool around with. 

Also, Sunday nights at 7 PM are a kind of throwback to another era. That's when primetime used to start a long time ago. And while every other night of the week, it's at 8 PM, the "Sundays at 7" thing seems to have somehow been grandfathered in because it's the weekend. 

Could they not just start the NFL games an hour earlier? End of problem most weeks. It would still attact a huge audience at noon, with the second game starting at 3:30 instead of 4:30. That would make a huge difference, with the added bonus that there would still be big numbers watching but primetime would mostly be safe on Sundays. 

Or maybe they should just change the name of the 2 minute warning to the 20 minute warning. Never has 120 seconds taken so long to time out. 

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

60 Minuts should be a monday to friday show.Same with ourown w5 and the 5th estate.

That would literally destroy the shows you mention. It takes weeks, if not months sometimes, to get these stories together. Doing it five days a week would be impossible, while keeping the quality intact. 

As an example, a simple 6 PM Toronto news story on your favourite station takes a reporter an entire day to put together, involving hours of his/her time, plus a camera person. And that's just for a 60-90 sec. report that has to be ready for air at supper time. The 60 Minutes crew not only flies all over North America and the world to shoot their stories, but then producers and editors get their hands on it, to try and make it into the best 15 minute to half hour story it can be. 

Doing that on a Monday-Friday basis while keeping the quality intact would be impossible, no matter how many people they had working on it. You just can't turn around a story that long that fast. 

I remember when our reporters were assigned "news serials" to run during ratings. They worked on a heavily promoted five parter for weeks, and even then, each segment only ran maybe four-five minutes. 60 Minutes, W5 and the others could never do it on a daily basis. There simply isn't enough time in the day.   

In case you're curious, the entire episode is available free online for 6 days on the Global TV website. Watch it here. 

And the hits just keep on coming. 

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RadioActive wrote:

Well you won't get an argument from me on that! (Odd as it is!) I just think 60 Minutes has been there so long, it's become like a fixture in that time slot and it's become something of a TV tradition after more than half a century. Some things you don't fool around with. 

Also, Sunday nights at 7 PM are a kind of throwback to another era. That's when primetime used to start a long time ago. And while every other night of the week, it's at 8 PM, the "Sundays at 7" thing seems to have somehow been grandfathered in because it's the weekend. 

Could they not just start the NFL games an hour earlier? End of problem most weeks. It would still attact a huge audience at noon, with the second game starting at 3:30 instead of 4:30. That would make a huge difference, with the added bonus that there would still be big numbers watching but primetime would mostly be safe on Sundays. 

Or maybe they should just change the name of the 2 minute warning to the 20 minute warning. Never has 120 seconds taken so long to time out. 

Hawaii is the perfect place for you RA. The NFL early games kickoff at 8am the late games at 11:25am. Even NBC Sunday Night Football begins at 3:15pm. 60 Minutes never gets delayed there.

What a way to destroy a formerly fantastic franchise. 

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