CBS's 60 MINUTES Finishes in Top 5 for Third Time Straight

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 again, finishing at #5 by drawing 10.68 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, March 5. It was the third straight broadcast to finish at #5 or better and the ninth time this season 60 MINUTES finished the week in the Top 5.

It was the CBS News magazine's 13th trip to the Nielsen Top 10 over 17 broadcasts.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Anderson Cooper's interview with far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen; Scott Pelley's report on the last hours of the doomed crew of the American ship El Faro; and Bill Whitaker's story about animal rights activists rescuing 33 lions from South American circuses.

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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