Feb 13, 2022; Inglewood, CA, USA; Confetti falls after the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

On Tuesday, NBC Sports proudly proclaimed that 112.3 million viewers watched Super Bowl LVI.

Per the company, the division of viewers is as follows.

  • 99.2 million on NBC
  • 1.9 million on Telemundo
  • 11.2 million average minute audience across all streaming and connected device co-viewing
    • 6 million of those viewers on Peacock, NBC Sports and NFL digital platforms, Rams, Bengals, and Yahoo mobile platforms

When it comes to Super Bowl viewership, there’s enough spin every year to give you a headache, especially when digital numbers start being taken into account. Last year’s Bucs-Chiefs matchup drew 95.2 million viewers on CBS alone, meaning this year’s game picked up an additional four million on broadcast. When digital, mobile, and Spanish numbers were baked in, last year’s game ended up with 99.7 million viewers, just above the NBC audience this year.

The main takeaway here is that the game was up significantly from a year ago, which is a big win for the league and NBC. You can quibble with the digital numbers (especially the black box that is “connected device co-viewing”), but the announced viewership is still staggering.

[NBC Sports]

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