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Friday Flashback: 60 Minutes

This week marks 40 years of 60 Minutes. Here's Ray Martin's very first story, on interactive TV devices.

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This week marked 40 Years of 60 Minutes on our TV screens (no it wasn’t last year, despite all those celebrations).

The show launched with Ian Leslie, Ray Martin and George Negus.

Ray Martin’s very first story was “Big Brother TV” about a radical interactive device in which home viewers could be surveyed on questions by pressing a button. But was the QUBE device also spying on its users and utilising the data?

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  1. I remember once upon a time we had actual news and current affairs and programs like 60 Minutes was appointment television, same time every week. Now, it is a shadow of its former self and it is often delayed because of some reality show which has priority in the schedule. And the same with nightly current affairs programs, which is also a shadow of its former self, now dumbed down trivial stuff instead of hard-hitting journalism

  2. “a radical interactive device in which home viewers could be surveyed on questions by pressing a button”. Then along came Facebook and Google, where Google searches direct Facebook ads on the same topic (airfares to SFO, Hong Kong hotels). “spying on its users and utilising the data?”. May not be called QUBE but try Google and Facebook.

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