Rankings: Super Bowl Draws 111.3 Million Audiences being Most-Viewed Tv Series ever

Eli Manning Did the Super Bowl set a viewership record for any third year consecutively? Just.Video clip: Gisele Bundchen defends husband Tom Brady, rips receiversSuper Bowl XLVI - where the NY Titans defeated the Gambling - came 111.3 million audiences, narrowly edging the 111 million audiences who updated in to the large game last year. The overall game also published a 47.8 overnight rating along with a 71 share - the 3rd-greatest ever, based on Nielsen overnight data launched early Monday. Within the grown ups-18-to-49 demographic, it obtained a 40.5 rating, its very best in 16 years. It had been also up 14 % versus the Titans-Patriots Super Bowl in 2008.Super Bowl XLV is most-viewed Tv series in U.S. historyThis was the seventh straight year the Super Bowl audience increased. This past year, Super Bowl XLV was seen by 111 million audiences, which makes it probably the most-viewed prime-time telecast in U.S. history. And the prior year that, the Super Bowl set the record for that biggest U.S. TV viewing audience at 106.5 million, which capped the lengthy-standing 106 million audiences who viewed the 1983 M*A*S*H finale.NBC apologizes for M.I.A.'s middle finger at Super Bowl halftime showThe postgame festivities and interviews struck some audiences as abbreviated, and perhaps these were, as NBC desired to provide a large springboard towards the Voice's return.Read our recap from the Voice's Season 2 premiereNBC's singing-talent show obtained a 16.3 rating and came 37.six million audiences, which makes it the greatest-ranked entertainment enter in 18-49 in six years. The show also did 47 percent much better than the publish-Super Bowl airing of Glee this past year.