CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 for Second Time in Three Weeks

60 MINUTES drew 12.4 million viewers Sunday night to finish the week at #5 on Nielsen's Top 10 List. It was the second time the news magazine joined the list in three weeks.

The broadcast also made the prestigious list in the key demos, delivering a 3.4/09 in adults 25-54 and 2.6/08 in adults 18-49, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Oct. 9. 60 MINUTES placed at # 9 in both measurements.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured a CHARLIE ROSE story on artificial intelligence, Steve Kroft's profile of actor Bryan Cranston and a Lara Logan report on veterinarians who track and treat gorillas in the wild.

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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