CBS's 60 MINUTES Finishes in Top 5 for Eighth Time This Season

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 at #4, drawing 10.35 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Feb. 19. The CBS News magazine was Sunday's #1 broadcast. It was the eighth time this season 60 MINUTES finished the week in the Top 5 and the program's 12th trip to the Nielsen Top 10 over 16 broadcasts.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Bill Whitaker's story on North Korea, Lesley Stahl's report on the Remington 700 rifle owners have complained can fire without pulling its trigger, and Dr. Jon LaPook's interview with former USA GYMNASTICS Team members who say they were sexually abused by the team's doctor.

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 47th season in September 2014. 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 2015, making Nielsen's Top 10 list nine consecutive weeks in the fall of 2014. Over the 2013-2014 season, 60 MINUTES continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.2 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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