For the 22nd time this season, 60 MINUTES made the Nielsen top 10. The CBS News magazine drew 10.89 million viewers to finish the week at #5. The program also ranked fifth in households of the week with a 7.0/13, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for May 15.
60 MINUTES was the #1 program Sunday in viewers and increased its audience over the same night last season. The broadcast was up +23% in households, +6% in adults 25-54 and +21% in viewers compared to the same night last year.
Sunday's program featured Scott Pelley's double-length report on the use of the polio virus against cancer, a treatment deemed "breakthrough" by the FDA and a Bill Whitaker story about naturalized Chinese American citizens wrongly accused of economic spying for China.
Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America's #1 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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