CBS's 60 MINUTES is No. 5 for Week, Marking 18th Appearance in Top 10

60 MINUTES finished among Nielsen's Top 10 programs again. The CBS newsmagazine drew 9.9 million viewers to land at #5 for the week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, April 23. It was the 18th time this season 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 weekly programs list; in 13 of those weeks, it ranked #5 or better.

60 MINUTES was Sunday's #1 prime program in viewers. Season to date, 60 MINUTES is averaging 12.9 million viewers, a +2 percent increase over last season.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured a profile of Michael Bloomberg by Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl's report on Federal JUDGE ALEX Kozinski and a CHARLIE ROSE story about timber-racing, an American EQUESTRIAN sport.

Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America's most-watched news program. 60 MINUTES, the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 49th season in September 2016. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2016, making Nielsen's Top 10 nearly every week. Over the 2015-2016 season, 60 MINUTES continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.3 million viewers per week - almost twice the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor and three million viewers ahead of the most-watched daily network evening news broadcast. The average audience for a 60 MINUTES broadcast still dwarfs the biggest audiences drawn by cable news programs.

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