Sunday night’s broadcast of Super Bowl 50 on CBS delivered 111.9 million viewers, coming in behind last year’s game.
Last year’s broadcast of the Denver Broncos’ victory over the Carolina Panthers keeps the record with 114.4 million viewers. This year did best 2014’s 111.5 million Super Bowl viewers.
CBS released its own figures highlighting the number of viewers that watched all or part of the game (at least six minutes), which was a record 167 million.
In this measurement, Super Bowl 50 was the most-watched single broadcast in television history on an all-or-part basis, according to Nielsen’s Fast Total Audience Estimates.
Last year’s Super Bowl drew a record audience of 114.4 million viewers to become the most-watched telecast in U.S. history. TV audiences have risen for five of the last six Super Bowel contests.
Nielsen will issue total viewer figures for the game later on Monday, including the halftime show that starred Coldplay, Beyonce and Bruno Mars.
