49th Season Premiere of CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10

60 MINUTES began its 49th season in a familiar way, making Nielsen's Top 10, just as it did 22 times last season. The CBS News magazine drew 14.36 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Sept. 25, finishing at #7 in Premiere Week.

The broadcast also made the Nielsen Top 10 list in households, scoring an 8.9 rating and 15 share, placing # 6 for the week.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Scott Pelley's interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan, David Martin's report on how new issues and nuclear weapons have created a new Cold War between Russia and the U.S., and a Bill Whitaker story about the sudden appearance of a $100 million cache of unknown Picasso artworks.

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.