60 Minutes

===Andy Rooney segment===
From 1978 to 2011, the program usually ended with a (usually light-hearted and humorous) commentary by [[Andy Rooney]] expounding on topics of wildly varying import, ranging from international politics, to economics, and to personal philosophy on everyday life. One recurring topic was measuring the amount of [[coffee]] in coffee cans.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Pound of Coffee?|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/07/60minutes/rooney/main543240.shtml|last=Rooney|first=Andy|author-link=Andy Rooney|work=CBS News|date=July 6, 2003|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=May 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513084802/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/07/60minutes/rooney/main543240.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rooney's pieces, particularly one in which he referred to actor [[Mel Gibson]] as a "wacko", on occasion led to complaints from viewers.  In 1990, Rooney was suspended without pay for three months by then-CBS News President David Burke, because of the negative publicity around his saying that "too much [[alcoholic beverages|alcohol]], too much food, drugs, homosexual unions, [[tobacco|cigarettes]] [are] all known to lead to premature death."<ref>{{cite news|date=November 5, 2011|title=Andy Rooney Dead at 92|work=[[CBS News]]|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andy-rooney-dead-at-92/3/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516192850/https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57319150/andy-rooney-dead-at-92/|archive-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref> He wrote an explanatory letter to a [[gay]] organization after being ordered not to do so. After four weeks without Rooney, ''60 Minutes'' lost 20% of its audience. CBS management concluded that it was in their best interest to have Rooney return immediately.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Zoglin|first1=Richard|author-link=Richard Zoglin|last2=Whitaker|first2=Leslie|date=March 12, 1990|title=Andy Rooney: The Return of a Curmudgeon|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969591,00.html|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=October 29, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420185234/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969591,00.html|archive-date=April 20, 2012}}</ref>

Rooney published several books documenting his contributions to the program, including ''Years Of Minutes'' and ''A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney''. Rooney retired from ''60 Minutes'', delivering his final commentary on October 2, 2011; it was his 1,097th commentary over his 34-year career on the program. He died one month later on November 4, 2011. On November 13, 2011, ''60 Minutes'' featured an hour-long tribute to Rooney and his career, and included a rebroadcast of his final commentary segment.