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 Super Bowl LIV on Fox in 2020 opened up this decade amidst the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic at the time and saw significant ratings improvement from the 2 previous Super Bowl editions, but suffered lower ratings the year after, [75] with an average of 91.63 million alone on CBS - the lowest since 2006. In 2022, with the resumption of full The last two Super Bowl's have set audience records, averaging 123.7 million viewers last year. This season NFL regular season and postseaon ratings have dropped The showdown between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes was the lowest rated Super Bowl since the days of Joe Namath 52 years ago.. Sunday’s Buccaneers-Chiefs Super Bowl 55 averaged a Nielsen-estimated 38.2 rating and 91.63 million viewers on CBS, marking the lowest rated edition of the game since Super Bowl 3 on NBC in 1969 (Jets-Colts: 36.0) and the least-watched since Super Bowl 40 on ABC in 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. In 2024, Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers achieved a TV rating of 42.1, up from the all-time low of 36.9 two years prior. Super Bowl television ratings and shares, including network (both NBC and CBS televised the first Super Bowl). The rating represents the percentage of televisions tuned in to a program. The share is the percentage of televisions on at the time that watched: The first and most obvious of those signs is the household rating, which last year dropped to 36.9 — the lowest for any Super Bowl since 1969. After topping a 40 rating for three-straight decades, the Super Bowl has fallen below that mark in each of the past two years. The decline is largely obscured when looking at the viewership, which in In another less-than-encouraging stat, the 38.2 rating was the lowest of any Super Bowl since 1969, when Joe Namath and his New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in an AFL-NFL matchup. More than 96 million people tuned into CBS Sunday night to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers blow out the Kansas City Chiefs, marking the Super Bowl’s lowest ratings in more than a decade. Sunday’s Rams-Bengals Super Bowl 56 averaged a 36.9 rating and 99.18 million viewers on NBC alone, 101.1 million viewers including Spanish-language coverage on Telemundo, and 112.3 million across all platforms — marking the lowest rated Super Bowl since 1969 (Jets-Colts: 36.0) but the most-watched across all platforms since 2017 (Patriots The lowest scoring Super Bowl in history tied a 16-year ratings low. Sunday’s Patriots-Rams Super Bowl 53 earned a 41.1 rating and 98.2 million viewers on CBS, down 5% in ratings and viewership from Eagles-Patriots on NBC last year (43.1, 103.4M) and down 9% and 12% respectively from Patriots-Falcons on FOX in 2017 (45.3, 11.3M). The game emerged with a Nielsen-estimated 38.2 rating — a measure of how many households watched the game out of all possible households, according to Sports Media Watch. The rating was the lowest since Super Bowl III in 1969, which had a 36.0 rating. That was the year Joe Namath and his upstart New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts. With or without streaming viewership included, the Eagles’ upset win was the lowest rated and least-watched Super Bowl since 2009 (Steelers-Cardinals: 42.0, 98.7M). It was the first Super Bowl to hit at least a nine-year low since 1990, when 49ers-Broncos hit a 21-year low in ratings and a 9-year low in viewership. What makes a low-scoring Super Bowl? In 2024, an NFL team generated an average of 22.9 points per game, an increase over 2023's 21.8 PPG but still a bit below when scoring peaked at 23.8 points Super Bowl LIII is the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history and the only Super Bowl to enter the fourth quarter without a touchdown. Tied 3–3, the Patriots took over in the fourth quarter Hurts is among the best quarterbacks to not win a Super Bowl (1,945) and passing yards (21,093) after a player's first five seasons, He also has the lowest interception rate (1.5%) through a Super Bowl ratings hit a new low in television’s most important demographic. Sunday’s Super Bowl 53 on CBS delivered a 31.0 rating and 39.95 million viewers in the adults 18-49 demo, down 7% in ratings and viewership from last year on NBC (33.4, 43.0M) and down 16% in both measures from 2017 on FOX (37.1, 47.6M). Sunday’s Super Bowl was watched by just 91.6 million people on CBS, the lowest number of viewers for the game on traditional broadcast television since 2006. A total of 96.4 million people For example, Super Bowl 58 had a Nielsen rating of 42.1 and a viewership total of 123 million. So 42% of American TV households were watching the Super Bowl and approximately 123 individuals
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