Super Bowl LVIII becomes highest-rated television program in history

KCTV-5 ^ | February 12, 2024

[Oldeconomybuyer]

No television program in history drew more eyeballs than the Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

The game wound up with a total audience delivery of 123.4 million average viewers across the platforms of CBS, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision and CBS Sports.

According to CBS Sports, 202.4 million viewers watched all or part of the game, which concluded with the Chiefs’ third Super Bowl win in the last five years. That number is the highest unduplicated total audience in history and up 10 percent against last year’s Super Bowl total of 184 million.

On CBS, the 120 million viewers was the largest audience in history for a single network.

[StAnDeliver]

Damn went to bed when Kelce bumped Reid, thought it was classless and signaled the end. Niners choked. Again.

[RayChuang88]

This is the largest audience for a TV show in Amnerican history with 123.4 million viewers. The world record for a single game is an estimated 1.5 billion viewers for the 2002 FIFA Men's World Cup final, but then that's spread over 170 countries.

[woodbutcher1963]

I was actually surprised they didn’t show Christian McCaffrey’s fiance Olivia Culpo.
They made a story about how Culpo was going to foot the $2MM bill for a luxury box so McCaffrey’s mom could see the game.

IMHO, Culpo is much more attractive than Swift. In fact the woman I noticed in the same box as Swift was the actress Blake Lively.

[woodbutcher1963]

This is the third time coach Kyle Shanahan has blown a double digit's lead in the Super Bowl. Twice with the 49ers. Once with Atlanta.
The sports radio guys in Boston are blaming this on Analytics.
That analytics works during the regular season, but not necessarily in the playoffs. Especially when you are up against the best QB in the NFL.