CBS’ “60 Minutes” proved it still has the moves in its 50th year to dominate the ratings.
According to the AP, the news magazine’s interview with Stormy Daniels, the adult film star alleging a 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump, was the most-watched prime-time program for the week with 22.1 million viewers.
That’s double the nearly 11 million viewers the show has been averaging this season and gave “60 Minutes” its best showing since 2008, when 25 million tuned in to see President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
CBS was the most-watched broadcast network in prime time last week, averaging 7.49 million viewers. NBC had 5.26 million, ABC had 4.78 million, Fox had 2.68 million, Univision had 1.51 million, ION Television had 1.43 million, Telemundo had 1.09 million and the CW had 890,000.
On the cable side, TVNewser reports the NCAA men’s basketball tournament boosted TBS into first place with 3.21 million viewers, followed by Fox News with 2.23 million, MSNBC with 1.96 million, HGTV with 1.49 and CNN with 1.2 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.7 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.9 million.
Fox News is standing firm as the most-watched basic cable network in total day for the 11th consecutive week.
Additionally, Fox News finished No. 2 in total prime time cable viewers, and made up eight of the top 30 cable telecasts in total viewers with presentations of Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight accounting for six of the top 25 telecasts in all of cable. FNC also defeated its cable news competition in the key categories, including the ad-friendly A25-54 demographic.
TBS dominated the basic cable competition in prime time this past week, and moved into first place across all relevant categories thanks to its NCAA Tournament coverage
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