The Chiefs vs. 49ers Super Bowl drew 123.4 million average viewers on Sunday — the most-watched game in NFL history, up seven percent from last year's Super Bowl. CBS also claimed it is the most The Chiefs and 49ers reached an estimated 123.7 million viewers on CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl 58 on Sunday night, as quarterback Patrick Mahomes completed a game-winning touchdown pass to The Super Bowl 58 featuring the Kansas City Chiefs versus the San Francisco 49ers has shattered all previous TV ratings records, with a historic estimated 123.7 million viewers. Live TV Listen CBS said Monday, breaking Super Bowl viewership records. San Francisco 49ers fans celebrate a touchdown as they watch the Super Bowl 58 NFL football game against the Kansas Super Bowl 58 was the most-watched television broadcast in a generation. Super Bowl 58 sets ratings record with 123.4 million viewers, TV’s biggest audience since the moon landing Super Bowl 58, the showpiece finale of the latest season of American football’s NFL, has drawn the largest recorded TV audience in US history. The game, held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, was broadcast on the Paramount -owned national network CBS, and drew an average of 123.4 million viewers, far above the previous record of 115. On Feb. 11, viewers in the United States spent a collective 111 billion minutes watching TV — fueled, obviously, by Super Bowl 58’s record-breaking audience of more than 123 million viewers According to Nielsen, more than 200 million viewers (202.4) watched all or part of Super Bowl 58, which is the highest unduplicated total audience in history, up 10% year over year. Super Bowl 58 was the most-watched program ever, up 7% in viewership from Super Bowl 57, which held the previous record with 115.1 million average viewers. More than 200 million viewers watched at CBS Sports' presentation of the Kansas City Chiefs' overtime victory in Super Bowl 58 was the most-watched telecast in history, with more than 120 million viewers across all CBS platforms. In 2022, with the resumption of full venue attendances at NFL games, Super Bowl LVI on NBC saw an average of 99.18 million viewers and total of 101.09 million, with streaming contributing an extra 11 million for a total of 112.3 million people. This is currently the second biggest average viewership in Super Bowl (and U.S. television) history. [76] The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set just this year (2024) — 123.7 million for Chiefs-49ers. While Chiefs-49ers owns the largest official Super Bowl audience on record, that is only because Nielsen did not begin including out-of-home viewing in its viewership estimates until I used average viewership data from Wild Card Round, Divisional Round, Conference Championship, and Super Bowl games played between 2021 and 2025 (representing the 2020-2024 regular seasons) to Earlier Super Bowls did better when it comes to TV ratings, with the highest-rated Super Bowl being a 49.1 in 1982 between the 49ers and Bengals. Of the five highest-rated Super Bowls ever, four Intrigue around the attendance of Taylor Swift, the second-ever end-of-season overtime and Usher’s halftime show drove viewership of the Kansas City Chiefs’ second consecutive Super Bowl The Chiefs and 49ers reached an estimated 123.7 million viewers on CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl 58 on Sunday night, as quarterback Patrick Mahomes completed a game-winning touchdown pass to Super Bowl viewership increased in every single demographic, but no more than in the young and female demos that attracted so much attention this season. The biggest year-over-year gain in Super Bowl viewership this year was among women 18-24, 3.87 million of whom tuned in across CBS and Univision — up 24% from last year (3.18M). That included 95.2 million for the 2021 Super Bowl between Tampa Bay and Kansas City, which was the game’s lowest TV-only average since 2007. Univision averaged 2.3 million viewers, the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish-language network. The Super Bowl has been televised in Spanish in the United States since 2014. Sunday's game was only the second of the 58 Super Bowls to go to overtime. which was the game's lowest TV-only average since 2007. the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish That game remains the most-watched Super Bowl in history, but Super Bowl LVIII came close with 123.7 million viewers. Ratings History of the Super Bowl Jan. 15, 1967.
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