48 Hours (TV program)

48 Hours
Genre	Documentary Newsmagazine
Created by	Howard Stringer
Directed by	Rob Klug
Presented by	Erin Moriarty Peter Van Sant Natalie Morales Jim Axelrod Jericka Duncan Michelle Miller David Begnaud Jonathan Vigliotti
Composer	Julian Harris
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	36
No. of episodes	991[1]
Production
Executive producer	Judy Tygard
Producers	Chuck Stevenson, Liza Findley, Paul La Rosa, Ruth Chenetz, Alec Sirken, Chris O'Connell, Marc Goldbaum, Chris Young Ritzen, Marcella Spencer, Lisa Freed, Elena DiFiore
Editors	Doreen Schecter, Greg McLaughlin, Phil Tangel, Marlon Disla, Richard Barber, Mike McHugh, Ken Blum, Diana Modica, Grayce Arlotta-Berner, David Spungen, Jud Johnston, Joan Adelman, Michelle Harris, Gary Winter, Marcus Balsam
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	CBS News
Original release
Network	CBS Syndication (from September 11, 2023)[2]
Release	January 19, 1988 (1988-01-19) – present
Related
60 Minutes
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48 Hours, also known as 48 Hours Mystery, is an American documentary news magazine television show broadcast on CBS. The show has been broadcast on the network since January 19, 1988 in the United States. The show airs Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, as part of the network's placeholder Crimetime Saturday block; as such, it is currently one of only two remaining first-run prime time shows (excluding sports) airing Saturday nights on the major U.S. broadcast television networks (along with Univision's Sabadazo). The show sometimes airs two-hour editions or two consecutive one-hour editions, depending on the subject involved or to serve as counterprogramming against other networks. Judy Tygard was named senior executive producer in January 2019, replacing Susan Zirinsky, who served as executive producer since 1996 until her early 2019 appointment as president of CBS News.

Reruns of 48 Hours are regularly broadcast on Investigation Discovery, the Oprah Winfrey Network and TLC as part of their daytime and/or weekend schedules, with varying titles based on the edition's subject matter (such as 48 Hours Hard Evidence, 48 Hours Investigates (a title that has also been used for the CBS broadcasts), 48 Hours on OWN or 48 Hours on ID).