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 [5] [6] In fact, the Super Bowl is the American sports broadcast with the most consistent ratings, [7] and draws substantially higher ratings than other sports events, including the NBA Finals and World Series. [8] Ratings for the Super Bowl first peaked from 1977 to 1987, when no less than 44.4% of American households with television sets 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 TV ratings in the U.S. 1990-2024; 2024). TV viewership of the Super Bowl in the United States from 1990 to 2024 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 03, 2025, from 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). Men 18-24 placed second with a 20% increase (from 3.86 to 4.61 million) and girls 12-17 third with an 11% jump (from 2.63 to 2.85 million). Super Bowl TV ratings in the U.S. 1990-2024 + Premium statistics Super Bowl TV viewership in the U.S. 1990-2024 Super Bowl is a U.S. television program broadcast on CBS. Super Bowl is watched by a total number of 120,252,000 people (38.14% rating) per the daily audience measurement on February 11, 2024 . Super Bowl is also shown on Nick at Nite , Nickelodeon , FOX , Fox Deportes (as NFL Super Bowl ) and Univision (as NFL Super Bowl ). 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. 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 NEW YORK – February 13, 2024 – An estimated 123.7 million viewers tuned in for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, February 11, according to average audience estimates from Nielsen. The broadcast averaged 120.3 million viewers on CBS alone, making it the largest audience for a single-network telecast to date. Super Bowl ratings and viewership inched up for the first time in five years. Sunday’s Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl 54 averaged a 41.6 rating and 99.9 million viewers on FOX, per Nielsen fast-nationals — up 1% in ratings and 2% in viewership from Patriots-Rams on CBS last year (41.1, 98.19M), but down 3% in both measures from Eagles-Patriots on NBC in 2018 (43.1, 103.39M). NFL Super Bowl. NFL Super Bowl is a U.S. television program broadcast on Univision. NFL Super Bowl is watched by a total number of 2,252,000 people (0.71% rating) per the daily audience measurement on February 11, 2024. NFL Super Bowl is the Univision telecast of Super Bowl which is also shown on CBS, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, FOX and Fox The Super Bowl and related programming of course dominated Super Bowl Sunday, while the non-football slate included another milestone for Caitlin Clark and Iowa.. Sunday’s Super Bowl 58 averaged a combined 43.5 rating and 123.71 million viewers across CBS (42.1, 120.25M), Univision (0.9, 2.25M) and a “Spongebob Squarepants”-themed alternate presentation on Nickelodeon (0.49, 1.21M Super Bowl Opening Night. Super Bowl Opening Night is a U.S. television program shown on FS1 since Monday, February 3, 2025. Super Bowl Opening Night is currently the sixth most popular show on FS1 and 308th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 98,000 people (0.03% rating) as of the daily audience measurement on February 3, 2025. On NBC, the game had a preliminary 37 U.S. household rating and was viewed in an average of 45 million homes, as the Rams defeated the Bengals 23-20 to claim the franchise’s first title in Los Angeles. This year, 72% of U.S. homes with televisions in use were tuned to the Super Bowl LVI telecast. Leading up to Super Bowl LVIII, the ratings (per Nielsen) for the NFL had been on the rise. During the 2023 regular season, the average audience across all networks was 17.9 million, a year-over The most-watched Super Bowl Halftime Show is Michael Jackson’s iconic 1993 set at Super Bowl XXVII, drawing a reported 133.4 million American viewers. Before Jackson, the Halftime Show was largely uneventful and featured less appealing acts. Nielsen revealed its ratings for the Super Bowl broadcast, with this year's telecast averaging 112.3 million viewers across all platforms, making it the most-watched show in five years. American Football Super Bowl Television Ratings (1967 - 2021) That out-rates last year’s big game—which held the record for the most-watched Super Bowl and second-most watched broadcast ever, at 115.1 million watchers—but fell short of the 150 million
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