MAGA-Coded ‘60 Minutes’ Humiliated by Ratings Crash
thedailybeast.com • • entertainment
Key Points:
- The revamped 60 Minutes premiered to its smallest audience in over 25 years, drawing about 7.94 million viewers, marking the lowest season opener since at least 2000.
- Viewership in the key 25-54 demographic dropped by a third to 1.6 million, despite a strong lead-in from CBS’s Sunday night football broadcasts, which attracted around 18.4 million viewers.
- The show’s decline comes amid significant staff cuts and a rightward editorial shift under Weiss, who has faced accusations of interfering with the program to favor the Trump administration.
- The premiere featured Trump-friendly guests, including former Trump pardon attorney Ed Martin, in a segment investigating pardons for felons.
- CBS did not immediately comment on the ratings drop, which was also influenced by a smaller Sunday NFL audience compared to the previous year.
