CBS'S 60 MINUTES Makes Top 10 for 19th Time This Season

CBS's 60 MINUTES finished in Nielsen's Top 10 for the 19th time this season, drawing 10.45 million viewers Sunday to land on the list at #4. This was 60 MINUTES' 14th time on the list over the past 16 broadcasts.

60 MINUTES also made the Nielsen Top 10 in households at #2, scoring a 6.7/13, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, April 17, 2016.

Sunday's broadcast featured Lesley Stahl's investigation of the life insurance industry, Bill Whitaker's report on New York City's Rikers Island jail and Sharyn Alfonsi's story on how easily hackers can get into mobile phones.

Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America's #1 news program.

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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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