CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 for Fourth Time in Seven Weeks

CBS's 60 MINUTES drew 14.05 million viewers Sunday to finish at #5 and make Nielsen's top 10 list for the fourth time in seven weeks. The CBS News magazine was also Sunday's top-ranked non-sports program in viewers.

The broadcast scored high ratings in the key demos too, making the top 10 at #9 in both adults 25-54 (3.2/08) and adults 18-49 (2.4/07), according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Nov. 6. 60 MINUTES finished at #4 in households with an 8.6/14.

Sunday's broadcast featured a Lara Logan report from the battle against ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, Steve Kroft's look at the divided American electorate and the war on the Zika virus reported by Dr. Jon LaPook.

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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