** REMEMBERING DON HEWITT
"60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt died today at his home in Bridgehampton,
N.Y., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He joined CBS in 1948,
directing the first network television newscast in May of that year.
Hewitt also produced the first televised presidential debate between
then-candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.
Hewitt later went to CBS and gained permission to try his idea for a
one-hour broadcast that mixed hard news and feature stories, which debuted
in September 1968 as "60 Minutes." He ran the broadcast until 2004, which
under Hewitt won 73 Emmys and nine Peabody awards.
Tonight on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, we will air an excerpt of a 2004
NewsHour interview between Hewitt and former NewsHour correspondent
Terence Smith.
Visit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/media after 9:00 PM Eastern time
tonight for more information on this segment.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Segments highlighted on Media Watch Alert are scheduled to
air but subject to change.
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