60 MINUTES made the top 10 for the third straight week and sixth time in eight weeks. The CBS newsmagazine drew 11.47 million viewers to finish at #7, according Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Nov. 19. 60 MINUTES was Sunday's #1 non-sports prime program in viewers.
Sunday's
60 MINUTES featured Scott Pelley's report on people starving and displaced by the civil war in Yemen; Anderson Cooper's story about NASA's Voyager space probes; and Jon Wertheim's report from Chapeco, Brazil, which lost nearly its entire professional soccer team in a plane crash.
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 49th season in September 2016. 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 2016, making Nielsen's Top 10 nearly every week. Over the 2015-2016 season,
60 MINUTES continued its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of 12.3 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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