CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Nielsen's Top 5 for 12th Time This Season

The good ratings continue for 60 MINUTES. The CBS newsmagazine finished at #5 this week, drawing 11.64 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, April 9. It was the 12th time this season 60 MINUTES finished the week at #5 or better.

60 MINUTES was Sunday's #1 prime program in viewers, adults 25-54 (2.3/07) and adults 18-49 (1.6/06). It was the 17th time this season 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 weekly programs list.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured an Anderson Cooper story on how the apps and content of smartphones are habitual by design, Steve Kroft's profile of Chobani yogurt's immigrant founder Hamdi Ulukaya and a report on Japanese pro baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani by Jon Wertheim.

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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