Super Bowl LVIII TV Ratings Set All-Time Record With 123M Viewers | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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Super Bowl LVIII made history on Sunday as the most watched telecast on record. The second overtime game in Super Bowl history delivered a gigantic audience, averaging 120 million viewers on CBS. Simulcasts on Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount+ and other digital platforms pushed the total to 123.7 million. No other broadcast in American TV history — at least as measured by Nielsen — has drawn more people.

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00:00Super Bowl 58 made history on Sunday as the most-watched telecast on record.

00:05The second overtime game in Super Bowl history delivered a gigantic audience,

00:09averaging 120 million viewers on CBS.

00:11Simulcasts on Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount Plus, and other digital platforms

00:16pushed the total to 123.7 million viewers.

00:19No other broadcast in American TV history, at least as measured by Nielsen, has drawn more people.

00:25Sunday's game scored a 42.1 household rating for CBS,

00:28meaning 42.1% of all TV homes in the United States were watching the Kansas City Chiefs' victory

00:33over the San Francisco 49ers.

00:35Super Bowl 58 grew by 7% over last year's game, which drew 115.1 million viewers for Fox.

00:41Until Sunday, that ranked as the most-watched broadcast in U.S. television history, at least officially.

00:46Nielsen didn't include out-of-home ratings in its totals until 2021.

00:50When looking at the biggest TV broadcasts in American history,

00:53estimates for the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 across ABC, CBS, and NBC

00:58ranged from 125 million to 150 million viewers, but there was no official count.

01:03For more on this story and more coverage of Super Bowl 58, head to THR.com.

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