CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 List for Sixth Consecutive Week

CBS's 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 list for the sixth consecutive week, drawing 11.13 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Dec. 11. The CBS News magazine delivered Sunday's largest non-sports audience and was Nielsen's #9 program for the week. It was 60 MINUTES' ninth trip to the Top 10 over 12 weeks.

Sunday's broadcast featured Lesley Stahl's interview with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Lara Logan's report on a re-emerging Colombia and Bill Whitaker's interview with Saroo Brierley, whose incredible lost-and-found story became the Hollywood film "Lion."

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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