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 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 The Super Bowl has surpassed 100 million viewers every year since 2010, topping out at 126.3 million in 2017 and 123.7 million in 2024. The Most-Watched Super Bowls in History Super Bowl Last year, the Super Bowl received a 42.1 TV rating, which means that 42.1 percent of households tuned into the game. While that number is high, it wasn't the highest in Super Bowl history. “No matter how or where viewers watch the game–at home with family and friends, at a bar, or streaming–Nielsen has the advanced measurement capabilities to capture the audience for the biggest TV event of the year.” The broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII ran from approximately 6:40 PM ET to 10:45 PM ET on CBS, Univision, Nickelodeon and Nick The regression model alone predicts Super Bowl viewership to be at 117.3 million for this year. However, when accounting for the Chiefs and Eagles viewership adjustment factors, that number jumps Super Bowl LVIII was the most-watched television broadcast in a generation. In fact, each year NFL games make up the vast majority of the most-watched television programs. In 2023, 93 of the Super Bowl LVIII will take place on February 11 and, as part of the annual traditions surrounding the Big Game, there will be ratings talk. How many people watch the Super Bowl every year is an 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: Super Bowl matchups by year. Super Bowl 1: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10; Super Bowl 2: Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14; Super Bowl 3: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7 Nielsen also reported 202.4 million viewers had tuned in to some portion (a minimum of six minutes) of Super Bowl LVIII, a year-over-year increase of 10% (184 million). Yet at the same time, the Super Bowl’s ratings have remained more or less consistent since the 1980s. Indeed, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date aired in 1982. Indeed, the highest-rated Super 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. Sunday’s Super Bowl 57 (Chiefs-Eagles) averaged a 40.0 rating and 113.06 million viewers across FOX (112.7M) and Fox Deportes (882K), marking the highest rated Super Bowl in three years (Chiefs-49ers: 41.6) and the most-watched in six (Patriots-Falcons: 113.7).* Ratings increased 8% from last year’s 36.9, the lowest for a Super Bowl since 1969. A total of 3.8 million people watched the 2024 Super Bowl in Germany, which was over 13% more than the previous year. With a total audience reach of 3.7 million, an 18% increase from 2023, the UK 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). Regular season games averaged 17.1 million across platforms, 10% more than a year ago. Excluding the Super Bowl, NFL playoff ratings averaged 36.3 million viewers across platforms—up 18% from a 70+ KPIs per store; The account requires an annual contract and will renew after one year to the regular list price. TV ratings of the Super Bowl in the United States from 1990 to 2024 NFL recorded an international viewership of 62.5 million in 2023 for the Super Bowl. This figure excluded the domestic viewership of 123.4 million viewers in the United States. Of the recorded international viewers in 2023, 24.1 million viewers were from Mexico, the highest viewership recorded since the game began and a 5% increase compared to 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).
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