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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00:00 Super Bowl 58 made history on Sunday as the most watched telecast on record.
00:04 The second overtime game in Super Bowl history delivered a gigantic audience,
00:08 averaging 120 million viewers on CBS.
00:11 Simulcasts on Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount Plus and other digital platforms
00:16 pushed the total to 123.7 million viewers.
00:19 No other broadcast in American TV history, at least as measured by Nielsen, has drawn more people.
00:24 Sunday's game scored a 42.1 household rating for CBS,
00:28 meaning 42.1% of all TV homes in the United States were watching
00:32 the Kansas City Chiefs' victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
00:35 Super Bowl 58 grew by 7% over last year's game, which drew 115.1 million viewers for Fox.
00:41 Until Sunday, that ranked as the most watched broadcast in U.S. television history, at least officially.
00:46 Nielsen didn't include out-of-home ratings in its totals until 2021.
00:50 When looking at the biggest TV broadcasts in American history,
00:53 estimates for the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 across ABC, CBS and NBC
00:58 ranged from 125 million to 150 million viewers, but there was no official count.
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