60 Minutes debuted its 57th season on Sunday, and the venerable CBS News program had a large audience for its premiere.
According to figures from Nielsen, 60 Minutes saw an average audience of 10.48 million viewers. The program featured strong competition from the 76th Emmy Awards being broadcast on ABC. That awards show featured an average audience of 6.9 million.
The CBS News show was the sixth highest-rated primetime broadcast of the week in both viewers and adults 18+. The show was ninth among adults in the 25-54 demographic.
The season premiere featured reports by Scott Pelley on the prosecution of January 6th rioters, Cecilia Vega’s report on the growing tensions between China and The Philippines, and an interview from Anderson Cooper with Grammy Award winner Dua Lipa.
