CBS's 60 MINUTES Draws Over 14 M; Makes Nielsen's Top 10 for 7th Straight Weeek

By: Caryn Robbins Dec. 20, 2016

For the seventh straight week, CBS's 60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10, drawing 14.09 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Dec. 18. The CBS News magazine delivered Sunday's largest non-sports audience and was Nielsen's # 6 program for the week. It was 60 MINUTES' tenth time on Nielsen's Top 10 over 13 weeks.

Compared to the same night last year, 60 MINUTES was up +11% in viewers. The broadcast is currently averaging 14.1 million viewers, +4 percent ahead of last season.

60 MINUTES also drew Top 10 audiences in key demos, posting a 3.1/08 in adults 25-54 to tie for #8 and scoring a 2.3/08 in adults 18-49 to rank #9 in that measure.

Sunday's broadcast featured Scott Pelley's report on the "White Helmet" volunteers who rescue Syrians from bombed buildings, Charlie Rose's profile of the Pope's Choir and an interview with Denzel Washington by Bill Whitaker.

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.

Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America's most-watched news program.

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