Super Bowl XLV most-watched TV show in history

Nonstopdrivel
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

Early numbers pin Super Bowl XLV as most-watched TV show
Associated Press
Published: Feb. 7, 2011 at 11:27 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Green Bay's victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl has surpassed last year's record-setting game in the Nielsen Co.'s preliminary ratings measurement of big cities.

The 2010 game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts established itself as the most-watched program in U.S. television history, with 106.5 million viewers.

Nielsen didn't immediately have a viewership estimate for Sunday's game. But in an overnight measurement of the nation's 56 largest media markets, this year's game had a 3 percent higher rating than last year's.

The game also had a 71 share -- meaning that more than two-thirds of the televisions being watched in the country at that time were watching the Super Bowl on the Fox network. That's the highest audience share for a Super Bowl since 1982, a time when there were far fewer television networks as competition.

Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

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wpr
Preferred Member

13 years ago

Yeah I thought they would pull the viewers in. it's the commercials of course. ::roll:

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

13 years ago

That's great!

We've discussed this previously and there's a trend, each Super Bowl tends to top the previous Super Bowl ratings.

Nonstopdrivel
Preferred Member Topic Starter

13 years ago

Yep. 😉

Yerko
Senior Member

13 years ago

That is a whole lot of people watching the Packers win that Lombardi Trophy!!!

Zero2Cool
Elite Member

13 years ago

Super Bowl XLV most-watched in U.S. TV history

Super Bowl XLV, with 162.9 million viewers, became the most-watched show in U.S. television history.

According to The Nielsen Company, the Green Bay Packers victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers had 9.5 million more viewers than the 153.4 million who watched the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in the 2009 season.

The top four most-watched shows in U.S. TV history are:

Game 	Teams 	Date 	Total viewers
Super Bowl XVL  	Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh 	Feb. 6, 2011 	162.9 million
Super Bowl XLIV 	New Orleans vs. Indianapolis 	Feb. 7, 2010 	153.4 million
Super Bowl XLIII 	Arizona vs. Pittsburgh         	Feb. 1, 2009 	151.6 million
Super Bowl XLII 	N.Y. Giants vs. New England 	Feb. 3, 2008 	148.3 million
Super Bowl XXXVI 	New England vs. Carolina 	Feb. 1, 2004 	144.4 million

In addition, Super Bowl XLV had an average audience of more than 111.0 million viewers, setting another record, which had been held by the Saints-Colts Super Bowl in the '09 season, which had an average audience of more than 106.4 million viewers.

The telecast Sunday of Super Bowl XLV on WITI-TV (Channel 6) had a 59.7 rating and 85 share in Milwaukee, higher in both counts than the previous two Super Bowls in which the Green Bay Packers competed. Nearly 538,000 households in the Milwaukee market watched some portion of the game.

Super Bowl XXXI in the 1996 season, when the Packers beat the New England Patriots on Fox, the game had a 59.5 rating and 83 share in Milwaukee.

Super Bowl XXXII in the 1997 season, when the Denver Broncos beat the Packers, the game had a 54.2 rating and 82 share. The game was telecast by NBC, locally on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).

A rating is the percentage of TV households in a market tuned to a show. A share is the percentage of sets on at the time tuned to a show.

Nationally, the game had a preliminary rating of 47.9 and 71 share among metered markets, making it the highest overnight rating for a Super Bowl since 1987, when Super Bowl XXI had the same rating. The 71 share matches the highest for a Super Bowl since 1982.

Both the Milwaukee market and Pittsburgh market delivered a 59.7 rating for the game, the second-highest rating in a single market in Super Bowl history, behind Chicago's 63.0 rating for Super Bowl XX.

In the Dallas market, the site of Super Bowl XLV, the game had a 53.7 rating and 80 share.

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