- Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl was the second-most-watched after the 2025 recreation.
- NBC’s broadcast, that includes a lopsided recreation and a Dangerous Bunny efficiency, was considered by 124.9 million.
- A brand new rankings calculation technique launched final yr has helped enhance rankings.
The Seattle Seahawks received Super Bowl 60 and so did NBC — however not by as a lot as they’d have favored.
A median of 124.9 million individuals tuned in, per NBC Sports activities. NBC generated the second-most-watched Tremendous Bowl — behind 2025’s recreation on FOX Sports activities — in its broadcast of the Big Game. It ended a two-year streak of record-breaking Tremendous Bowl viewership.
Telemundo, nonetheless, delivered a document with the most-watched Tremendous Bowl in US Spanish-language historical past with a median of three.3 million viewers. That viewership peaked throughout Bad Bunny’s halftime show performance, with 4.9 million viewers.
General, viewership was a median of 128.2 million from 8:15 to eight:30 p.m. ET throughout Dangerous Bunny’s efficiency.
An all-time document 137.8 million viewers watched throughout NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo in the course of the second quarter, in keeping with NBC Sports activities.
A extra detailed breakdown shall be accessible from Nielsen later this week, NBC Sports activities mentioned in its press launch.
Many main sporting occasions — together with final yr’s Tremendous Bowl — have seen their rankings improve since Nielsen modified its rankings calculation in late January 2025 to higher account for out-of-home viewing, similar to individuals watching at eating places and bars.
The faculty soccer Nationwide Championship Recreation drew in simply over 30 million individuals, up about 36% from final yr’s mark of twenty-two.1 million and near the all-time document of 33.9 million in 2015.
Below Nielsen’s prior rankings methodology, this yr’s faculty soccer championship would have generated simply over 28 million viewers. That is primarily based on an ESPN spokesperson telling The Athletic that the sport’s rankings would have risen 27% yr over yr below the previous format. In different phrases, out-of-home viewing appeared so as to add 2 million viewers to the sport’s complete.
So whereas Nielsen’s revamped viewership calculations might have affected Sunday’s rankings, it may not have made an enormous distinction.
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