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SB LVII draws 113M viewers, 3rd-most in history

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Monday, 13 February 2023 20:20

The Kansas City Chiefs' rally to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Sunday's Super Bowl LVII is on pace to become the third-most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching, according to preliminary numbers released Monday.

Fox said the audience estimate includes the broadcasts on Fox and Fox Deportes as well as streaming on Fox's and the NFL's digital sites. The figures are via Nielsen's Fast National data and Adobe Analytics.

The 2015 game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks on NBC holds the record at 114,442,000 viewers (not including streaming), followed by Super Bowl LI in 2017 on Fox between Atlanta and New England (113,668,000).

This was Fox's 10th Super Bowl since it began airing NFL games in 1994 and the second-most-watched program in Fox Sports history.

It would also be a slight increase over the 112.3 million average for last year's Super Bowl. The Los Angeles Rams' victory over the Cincinnati Bengals was broadcast by NBC and Telemundo and streamed on Peacock and NFL digital sites.

According to Adobe Analytics, this year's digital feed averaged a Super Bowl-record 7 million streams, an 18% increase over last year (6 million) and more than double Fox's last Super Bowl in 2020 (3.4 million).

It was the third straight year the streaming average has surpassed 5 million. The first Super Bowl to be streamed, in 2012, averaged 346,000.

Rihanna's halftime show averaged 118.7 million viewers, making it the second-most-watched show in Super Bowl history. Katy Perry's 2015 performance holds the top mark at 121 million.

The Spanish-language audience average for the game was 951,000, a record for the most-watched Super Bowl game in Spanish-language cable television history. It was also the most-watched non-soccer event in Spanish-language cable history.

The Spanish-language number is down from last year's record of 1.9 million on Telemundo, which unlike Fox Deportes has broadcast affiliates in 90 markets.

The Super Bowl has been televised in Spanish in the United States since 2014.

Final Nielsen data will be available on Tuesday, including the English-language television-only figures. After Super Bowls averaged over 100 million viewers from 2010 to 2018, four of the five games before this year had fallen short of that number because of cord-cutting. 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.

If Sunday's number can better the 99.18 million from last year, it would mark the first time since 2015 there had been two straight years of increases.

The flood of ads during what is easily television's most-watched event of the year was heavy on celebrities -- Ben Affleck, Ozzy Osbourne, Matt Damon, Maya Rudolph, Martha Stewart and "Breaking Bad'' cast members.

Steve Williamson, senior vice president of the market research firm GWI, said surveys show that trust in brands is down this year and companies were looking for well-known names for a boost.

"There wasn't a primary brand that took over the Super Bowl,'' he said. "There were all sorts of brands from alcohol to gambling to Jesus.''

Fox also said that 15.5 million people watched the season premiere of Gordon Ramsay's competition show "Next Level Chef" following the game. The spot after the Super Bowl is usually the most-coveted time slot on television.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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