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[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 ...
[98] [99] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] Nielsen only began recording a list of ratings for individual broadcasts starting in July 1960, therefore ratings before that time are not included in their official count.
[110] [111] Meanwhile, Super Bowl LI on Fox in 2017 remains [citation needed] the most watched telecast on peak conclusion in U.S. history, drawing 172 million viewers (more than half of the U.S. population of 340 million that same year) in the league's first overtime period ever for a Super Bowl.
That ratings figure was up 7% from last year’s Big Game, which previously held the title for the most-watched Super Bowl of all-time. 120 million viewers watched the sporting event on CBS, the ...
The 2024 Super Bowl ratings took “a leap, not a creep.” ... Super Bowl LI in 2017 (111.3M) Super Bowl XLV in 2011 (111M) ... which was in the news last week on its anniversary. So this year ...
Nielsen has been flagged for a delay of game. The highly anticipated viewership numbers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ decisive 31-9 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday night’s Super Bowl ...
NRG Stadium in January 2017. The NFL selected the sites for Super Bowl 50 and Super Bowl LI at the owners' spring meetings in Boston on May 21, 2013. [26] On October 16, 2012, the NFL announced that Reliant Stadium in Houston, which was renamed NRG Stadium in 2014, was a finalist to host Super Bowl LI. [27]
CBS scored a 47.2/67 national household rating/share, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date. This game was the first Super Bowl to be played in prime time, was broadcast in the United States by CBS with play-by-play announcer Pat Summerall and color commentator Tom Brookshier. The game kicked off at 5:17 p.m. Central Standard Time.