Monday, February 4, 2008

The Super Bowl Was Super Watched

Due partially to the New York Giants impressive upset triumph over the New England Patriots, early findings have shown that the rating for this years Super Bowl have increased between 6 and 9 percent from last years game.

Although Nielsen does not have clear numbers on how many people actually watched the game, Nielsen Media Research has shown that the Fox Broadcast had a 44.7 rating and a 66. Last year’s Super Bowl, between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears, had a viewership of 93.2 million.

This year’s game has a chance of becoming the most-watched Super Bowl ever, and the second most-watched broadcast. The current most-watched Super Bowl was the 1996 game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers seen by 94.1 million, and the most-watched broadcast was the series finale of M-A-S-H which pulled in 106 million viewers.

TiVo has reported that the commercial were watched more than the game, and the average price of an advertisement was $2.7 million for a 30 second segment. TiVo maintains that the most watched commercial during the game was the E-trade advertisement that featured a baby talking about stocks.

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