CBS's 60 MINUTES is #2 Broadcast; Makes Nielsen Top 10 in Key Demos

CBS's 60 MINUTES was the #2 broadcast in America last week, making the top 10 for the third time in five weeks. The CBS news magazine drew 16 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Oct. 23.

The broadcast also made Nielsen's top 10 in key demos, finishing #5 in adults 25-54 (4.0/11) and #6 in adults 18-49 (3.0/09). It was the show's best delivery in those measurements and in viewers since Jan. 17.

Sunday's 60 MINUTES featured Scott Pelley's report from election battleground Ohio, Armen Keteyian's story on a financial advisor whose NFL-player clients lost $43 million, and a Bill Whitaker report on social media stars getting rich by attracting young viewers with short video posts.

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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