Early numbers for “60 Minutes” on Sunday night are not good.
So far, it looks like 7.7 million viewers tuned in for the 59th season premiere.
This came after months of negative publicity with CBS News chief Bari Weiss firing three correspondents, and another, Anderson Cooper, leaving.
Despite a very good segment from Lesley Stahl about presidential pardons, the rest of Sunday’s show was soft. Norah O’Donnell’s fighter pilot piece came off like a press release from Pete Hegseth.
Last year’s premiere by comparison, scored 10 million viewers.
Last night’s key demo was also way down to 1.5 million viewers among adults ages 25–54, down 33% from last year.
It won’t be until this afternoon that we know the actual numbers for Sunday. But the preliminary ones are not encouraging.
