Super Bowl LVIII is Most-Watched Telecast in History
CBS Sports' coverage of Super Bowl LVIII, which featured the Kansas City Chiefs' 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers, delivered the most-watched telecast in history with a 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms, including the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision, and CBS Sports and NFL digital properties, including NFL+.
Viewership figures are based on Nielsen Fast National data and Adobe Analytics.
Record-Setting Viewership
Super Bowl LVIII is the most-watched program ever, averaging 123.4 million viewers across all platforms, up +7% versus last year's Super Bowl which was the previous record (115.1 million).
More than 200 million viewers (202.4) watched all-or-part of Super Bowl LVIII across all networks, the highest unduplicated total audience in history and up +10% versus last year's Super Bowl (183.6 million).
Univision averaged more than 2.2 million viewers, the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish-language network.
CBS Leads the Way with Largest Audience Ever for Single Network
Super Bowl LVIII on CBS led the way with 120.0 million viewers, the largest audience in history for a single network.
Super Bowl LVIII capped off a record-setting season for CBS Sports. The “NFL ON CBS" scored the most-watched regular season since the NFL returned to CBS in 1998 as well as the Network's best postseason viewership since 1998.
Most-Streamed Super Bowl Ever
Super Bowl LVIII is the most-streamed Super Bowl in history led by a record-setting audience on Paramount+.
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Super Bowl Earns Record 123 Million Viewers—Most-Watched TV Event Since Apollo 11. Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture.
Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls. The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history, having garnered an estimated viewership of between 125 and 150 million viewers.
The telecast averaged 123.7 million viewers across all platforms, the most-watched program ever, according to Nielsen. The figure was up seven percent from last year's game, which set the previous record of 115.1 million viewers.
American football's NFL has announced an international total viewership of 62.5 million people for the 2023 edition of its showpiece season finale, the Super Bowl. The figure, which excludes the league's record domestic viewership of 123.4 million viewers in the US, is a 10% increase on the 2023 edition of the game.
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.
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Super Bowl LVIII was most-watched TV program ever, averaging 123.4m viewers. The longest Super Bowl game will also go down as the most-watched program in US television history.
That's because of a provision in the NFL's bargaining agreement with the Players Association. The agreement stipulates players on the winning team earn an extra $164,000 for playing in the Super Bowl, while players on the losing team earn $89,000.
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.
All together, more than 200 million people watched at least some part of the game, according to CBS, which cited Nielsen and Adobe Analytics data. The Kansas City Chiefs became back-to-back Super Bowl champs Sunday after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime.
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.
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The Kansas City Chiefs' overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers drew 120 million viewers on CBS alone. Super Bowl 58, the showpiece finale of the latest season of American football's NFL, has drawn the largest recorded TV audience in US history.
The Super Bowl 58 featuring the Kansas City Chiefs versus the San Francisco 49ers has shattered all previous TV ratings records, with a historic estimated 123.7 million viewers. Super Bowl 58 becomes the most watched television event in history.
Sunday's Super Bowl matchup broke viewership records, becoming the most watched telecast in U.S. TV history. An average of more than 123 million people tuned in over the duration of the game. That's according to national ratings figures from Nielsen and CBS.
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