60 MINUTES made Nielsen’s Top 10 broadcasts for the second straight time.  It was the CBS News magazine’s third time in four weeks and the 14th time this season that it made the prestigious list.   

60 MINUTES drew 10.5 million viewers to land at #10. It also made the Top 10 in households, tied at #8, with a 6.7/12, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for March 8, 2015. 

             Sunday’s 60 MINUTES featured Lesley Stahl’s report on Argentina’s political scandal caused by the mysterious death of a prosecutor, Scott Pelley’s story about how Marine combat veterans are faring in civilian life, and the profile of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s James Levine, the last story to be finished by the late Bob Simon. 

            Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES, America’s # 1 news program.

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Press Contact:                          Kevin Tedesco  212 975-2329  kev@cbsnews.com