CBS's 60 MINUTES Finishes top 5 for Seventh Time This Season

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 at #2, drawing 11.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Jan. 29. The CBS News magazine delivered Sunday's largest audience. It was the seventh time this season 60 MINUTES finished the week in the Top 5 and the program's 11th trip to the Nielsen Top 10 over 15 broadcasts.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Bill Whitaker's report on the vetting process for Syrian refugees; Steve Kroft's story on the rescue of the survivors of the avalanche in Italy; and Whitaker's investigation into the use of hidden bike motors and pro cycling.

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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