'60 Minutes,' NFL games, NCAA men's basketball make CBS the big winner in TV ratings
“60 Minutes” drew its largest audience since the last time it aired after an NFL game, and CBS had each of the week’s next four top-rated programs to finish first in the ratings for the fourth time in the four weeks following the conclusion of NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.
The first-place finish was the 10th time in the 26-week-old 2021-22 primetime television season for CBS, averaging 5.47 million viewers, 10.7% more than its 4.94-million average the previous week and the most since the week of Jan. 17-23 when it aired the Kansas City Chiefs’ 42-36 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills in an NFL divisional playoff game and averaged 10.37 million viewers for the week.ABC was second, averaging 3.17 million viewers, and NBC third, averaging 3.14 million.
“American Idol” was ABC’s biggest draw for the fourth time in the four weeks it has aired this season, finishing 12th, averaging 5.396 million viewers. The CW’s biggest audience was the high school football drama “All American,” which averaged 666,000 viewers, 171st among the week’s broadcast programs.
The top 20 primetime programs consisted of “60 Minutes,” eight CBS entertainment programs, three NCAA men’s basketball tournament games on CBS and one tournament studio show; four NBC entertainment programs; two ABC alternative programs, “American Idol” and “The Bachelor”; and Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star.”
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