CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Nielsen's Top 10 List for 5th Consecutive Week

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 List for the fifth consecutive week, drawing 11.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Dec. 4. The CBS News magazine delivered Sunday's largest non-sports audience and was Nielsen's #7 program for the week. It was 60 MINUTES' eighth trip to the Top 10 over 11 weeks.

Compared to the same night last year, 60 MINUTES was up +38 percent in adults 25-54 (2.2/06) and viewers, and +27 percent in adults 18-49 (1.4/04.)

Sunday's broadcast featured Scott Pelley's interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Bill Whitaker's story about bringing back factory jobs to Mississippi and Anderson Cooper's look at how lawyers are filing thousands of suits against businesses not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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.