Obama interview sets '60 Minutes' viewership record

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: The Daily Feed

Barack Obama's first televised post-election interview gave Sunday night's "60 Minutes" its biggest audience in at least nine years.

The CBS News program was seen by 24.5 million viewers and earned a 6.4 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. That marks the show's largest viewership since 1999.

Veteran correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed Obama about a range of domestic and foreign policy issues in the show's opening 15-minute segment, then he spoke to Obama alongside his wife, Michelle, for two more segments covering how the election has impacted their family. Obama said the government should help the U.S. auto industry and reiterated his plan to pull troops out of Iraq, though the president-elect largely refused to answer questions about his cabinet choices, saying only that announcements would be made "soon."

"60 Minutes" has been on a ratings roll this season. Last week's episode interviewing Obama's top four advisers gave the program its highest audience in a year....

Read more: http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/obama-interview.html

[onehandle]

1. This just in about about George W. Bush's book deal...

[closeupready]

2. ROFL

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

3. LOL!

[acmavm]

4. Funny.

[roguevalley]

11. Oh lord. that is so cute.

[Voice for Peace]

5. I could happily watch interviews like that one for years.

If they want to keep their ratings up, they ought to do a regular series. SERIESLY!!!
:fistbump:

[lynettebro440]

6. I do too

Those two make me smile everytime I watch them

[bdamomma]

9. me too.

so nice to see two intellect people.

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. Highest audience in years

Oh, like wow, man! Who could have thought that having someone on worth listening to and doing stories about, well, real stories would get people to watch.

[progressoid]

8. So what happened in 1999?

[Doctor_J]

10. That's because he's hypnotized the entire world

[4_TN_TITANS]

12. It's the subject, not the show....

But glad so many people are interested (or worried?).

[trueblue2007]

13. DARN!!! I missed it. I didn't know it was on. Rats.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Here's CBS video --

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4608198n