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How Were 60 Minutes’ Season Premiere Ratings After Months Of BTS Changes?
The season opener logged the show’s smallest premiere audience since at least 2000, with the key 25-to-54 demo also falling 33%, early figures showed.
- On Sunday, the 59th season premiere of 60 Minutes drew 7.7 million viewers, marking its smallest premiere audience since at least 2000, according to preliminary Nielsen data.
- CBS News Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss led a summer overhaul that replaced executive producer Tanya Simon with Nick Bilton and saw correspondents Scott Pelley, Cecilia Vega, and Sharyn Alfonsi depart the program.
- Viewership among the key 25-to-54 demographic plunged 33%, while Nielsen's methodology changes and a split NFL audience between CBS and Fox contributed to the decline, the network noted.
- The Wrap's A.J. Katz described the premiere as "more evolution than revolution," even as the episode marked the newsmagazine's smallest premiere audience in records dating back to at least 2000.
- CBS News faces pressure to stabilize viewership as industry analysts suggested subsequent weeks will offer a more accurate test of the revamped format's staying power.
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'60 Minutes' suffers season debut ratings slump
CBS News’s 60 Minutes suffered a sharp decline in ratings for its season premiere, with the first episode under new leadership drawing roughly 2 million fewer viewers than last year’s debut. The CBS staple drew about 7.94 million viewers for its 59th season premiere Sunday, according to data released by the network. The audience was […]
·Washington, United States
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'60 Minutes' Season Premiere Drops Vs. Last Year's Debut
The season premiere of 60 Minutes averaged 7.94 million viewers on Sunday, off from the more than 10 million who tuned in to last year’s debut. The first episode of the show’s 59th season was highly anticipated — and scrutinized — following the shake up at the newsmagazine last spring, despite its status as one […]
·Los Angeles, United States
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Total News Sources17
Leaning Left12Leaning Right1Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution86% Left
Bias Distribution
- 86% of the sources lean Left
86% Left
L 86%
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