Super Bowl gets 111.9 viewers, down from last year

It has today been confirmed that the overnight ratings show that 111.9 million viewers tuned into the Super Bowl in the USA alone last night.

CBS set a new Super Bowl streaming record with an average of 1.4 million viewers per minute, a notable but unsurprising accomplishment, given that streaming is becoming more popular each year. This year, 60 million people used Facebook to take about the game, but last year it was 65 million.

Some say Coldplay let Bruno Mars and Beyonce upstage them at their own Super Bowl show.

And then over in the global compound one could also some firsts: BSkyB worked out of a Game Creek Video unit for the first time; NHK rolled out its latest 8K mobile unit to produce the first Super Bowl in 8K; and the National Football League itself went all fiber for signal transport for the first time.

The Broncos’ 24-10 win over the Panthers gave Manning his second Super Bowl ring, tying him with his younger brother. The Super Bowl had set viewership records for six of the past seven years.

Nielsen said 21.2 million stayed up to watch the special version of Steven Colbert’s “The Late Show” that aired after the game.

This is only the third Super Bowl U.S. telecast with a Spanish-language production; Fox Deportes had the first one, in 2014, and that remains the biggest-ever non-soccer sports telecast on Spanish-language pay TV, ESPN said.

The game attracted a 76 percent viewing share among adults 25 to 54, and a 78 percent share among adults 18 to 49 from 6:30 p.m.to 10:29 p.m. The stream had just under 4 million unique visitors during the game. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.