Super Bowl television ratings in Canada showing network(s) broadcast on and average viewership, 1998–present Super Bowl Date English French Network(s) Avg. viewers Network Avg. viewers XXXII: January 25, 1998 Global: 3,000,000 [105] RDS: Unknown XXXIII: January 31, 1999 3,399,000 [59] Unknown XXXIV: January 30, 2000 4,000,000 [106] Un 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 There is no bigger TV event than the Super Bowl. Here are the Super Bowls ranking 6-10 in most average viewership: 6. Super Bowl LI – 111,973,000 average viewership; 7. Super Bowl XLVI – 111,346,000 average viewership; 8. Super Bowl XLV – 111,041,000 average viewership; 9. Super Bowl XLVII – 108,693,000 average viewership; 10. The audience for Super Bowl LVIII was so large that it approached the all-time most watched television broadcast in the United States set in 1969, when an estimated 125 to 150 million viewers 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. Super Bowl LVIII was the most-watched program in television history, with an average of 123.7 million viewers tuning in to the Chiefs' 25-22 overtime win versus the 49ers. 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 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 The Super Bowl brought in 123.4 million viewers on Sunday, making it the most-watched telecast in history. ranking behind the 2015 and 2017 Super Bowls which brought in 114.4 million and 113.7 2014: FOX said Super Bowl XLVIII had a streaming average minute audience of 528,000 viewers and peak concurrent viewership of 1.1 million, with users spending an average of 47.8 minutes watching the stream. 2013: CBS Sports said Super Bowl XLVII had a streaming average minute audience of 508,000 with an average viewing time of 38 minutes. The Ranking: Super Bowl and Date: Performer: Reported U.S. Viewership: 1: Super Bowl XXVII – January 31, 1993: Michael Jackson: 133.4 million: 2: Super Bowl LVIII What Happened: Super Bowl LIX is a rematch of Super Bowl LVII from 2023 when the Chiefs won 38-35. Like that Super Bowl, this Chiefs and Eagles match will also air on FOX, a unit of Fox Corp FOX FOXA. 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. 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 NEW YORK – February 14, 2023 –An estimated 113.06 million viewers were tuned in for Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, according to average audience estimates from Nielsen. The Super Bowl LVII telecast ran from 6:44 PM ET to 10:14 PM ET and averaged nearly 112.2 million viewers on FOX. Super Bowl LVIII set an audience record [+] averaging 123.7 million viewers. In 2023, a non-political year, the NFL had accounted for 93 of the 100 telecasts. The ranking covers the entire As a result, CBS's live telecast of Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024, holds the record for the largest average viewership of any live network U.S. television broadcast, with 123.7 million viewers. The Super Bowl on Sunday drew a staggering 123.4 million viewers who watched the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in a nail-biting overtime triumph, CBS Sports said in a According to data from iSpot.TV, 126.6 million viewers watched the game across CBS, Univision, Nickelodeon and Paramount+. That was the average second-by-second audience, a 10.9% increase over 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.
Articles and news, personal stories, interviews with experts.
Photos from events, contest for the best costume, videos from master classes.
![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() |
![]() | ![]() |
![]() |