CBS's 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 for Fifth Straight Time This Season

60 MINUTES drew an audience of nearly 11 million to land on Nielsen's Top 10 for the fifth straight broadcast, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, March 19. The CBS News magazine's 10.9 million viewers were good for a #5 finish for the week, the tenth time this season that 60 MINUTES finished at #5 or better.

Compared to the same night last year, the program was up +6% in in viewers, even in both adults 25-54 (2.3/07) and adults 18-49 (1.6/06). 60 MINUTES was Sunday's #1 program in viewers.

It was the CBS News magazine's 15th trip to the Nielsen Top 10 over 19 broadcasts.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Bill Whitaker's report on Americans losing their jobs to foreigners through a loophole in the H-1B visa law; Scott Pelley's story from South Sudan where the UN's World Food Programme is fighting a famine emergency; and a Lesley Stahl report about TV icon SESAME STREET introducing a new Muppet with autism.

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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