“60 Minutes” …. tick tick tick … your time is up.

“60 MINUTES”….YOUR TIME IS UP

For 50 years, CBS “60 Minutes” was my Sunday school. From the mid-1970s, up until just a few years ago, the familiar sound of a ticking stopwatch marked the end of one week–and the start of another. Program hosts — Reasoner, Bradley, Wallace, Safer, Rather and those who later filled investigative journalist duties that couldn’t possibly be equalled — were invited weekly into my living room, becoming de facto members of the family. While others attended church on Sundays, my religion was NFL football in the daytime and the legendary television news magazine in the evening then at the pinnacle of its popularity.