Pats-‘Hawks Most Watched Television Event Ever

The numbers are in. The New England-Seattle Super Bowl game was the most watched television event ever.

One hundred fourteen point four million viewers. Pick your reason. Pick your reason: A massive winter storm in the midwest. (And parts of the northeast still digging out from theirs); close game; deflategate hype. a dancing shark at halftime, a highly anticipated toe fungus commercial.

MOST-WATCHED PROGRAMS IN U.S. TELEVISION HISTORY:
1. 114.4 Million – Super Bowl XLIX, NBC (Last Night’s Game)
2. 112.2 Million – Super Bowl XLVIII, FOX (Feb. 2014)
3. 111.3 Million – Super Bowl XLVI, NBC (Feb. 2012)
4. 111.0 Million – Super Bowl XLV, FOX (Feb. 2011)
5. 108.7 Million – Super Bowl XLVII, CBS (Feb. 2013)
6. 106.5 Million – Super Bowl XLIV, CBS (Feb. 2010)
7. 106.0 Million – M.A.S.H. Finale, CBS (Feb. 1983)
8. 98.7 Million – Super Bowl XLIII, NBC (Feb. 2009)

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