CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 5 for Fourth Straight Week

60 MINUTES made the top 5 for the fourth straight week and the 16th time this season. The CBS newsmagazine drew 10 million viewers to land at #5 for the week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, May 14. It was the 21st time this season 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 weekly programs list.

60 MINUTES was the #1 prime program in viewers Sunday, May 14. Season-to-date, the broadcast is delivering 12.5 million viewers, a +1% increase over last season.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Scott Pelley's 2014 interview with James Comey, when he was still the director of the F.B.I.; Holly Williams' story about a reemerging Al Qaeda; and Bill Whitaker's report on the Mars rover Curiosity.

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.