CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 for 22nd Time This Season

For the 22nd time this season, 60 MINUTES made the Nielsen top 10. The CBS News magazine drew 10.89 million viewers to finish the week at #5. The program also ranked fifth in households of the week with a 7.0/13, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for May 15.

60 MINUTES was the #1 program Sunday in viewers and increased its audience over the same night last season. The broadcast was up +23% in households, +6% in adults 25-54 and +21% in viewers compared to the same night last year.

Sunday's program featured Scott Pelley's double-length report on the use of the polio virus against cancer, a treatment deemed "breakthrough" by the FDA and a Bill Whitaker story about naturalized Chinese American citizens wrongly accused of economic spying for China.

Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America's #1 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.