60 MINUTES made the Top 5 for the third straight week and the 15th time this season. The CBS newsmagazine drew 9.55 million viewers to land at #5 for the week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, May 7. It was the 20th time this season 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 weekly programs list. 60 MINUTES was Sunday's #1 prime program in viewers.
Sunday's
60 MINUTES featured Anderson Cooper's story about a popular restaurant owner deported after 20 years in the U.S., Lesley Stahl's profile of the last living Nuremburg prosecutor and Bill Whitaker's inside look at how the Chicago Cubs won the
WORLD SERIES for the first time in 108 years.
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.
