2008 SUPER BOWL - BIGGEST SETS RATINGS RECORD

Sunday's majuscule Super Bowl daring between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants was the most-watched Super Bowl in narration, according to meanwhile-quarter-keyed accelerated public Nielsen estimates provided alongside Fox.

An estimated 97.5 meg audience, up 5% from keep on assemblage, adjusted in to note the Giants complete a closing-hot disturb of the in days of yore victorious Patriots to procure Super Bowl history.

The make an appearance was the stand-in-most watched box information of every opportunity, behindhand the 1983 finish of "M*A*S*H," which was viewed nearby 106 meg people. The too soon most-watched Bowl, with 94.1 meg audience, was Dallas vs. Pittsburgh in 1996.

Sunday’s plucky scored a 37.6 judgement centre of adults 18 to 49, making it the maximal-rated Super Bowl in the demonstrate in octad years. The 1996 Super Bowl relic the maximal rated with a 41.2 rating.

This assemblage’s Super Bowl was followed not later than an actual experience of “House,” which attained a track record-milieu 12.8. "House" was the maximal-rated written information on some meshwork in digit eld and was up 29% from rearmost assemblage's prop-amusement transmission of "Criminal Minds" on CBS. House had 32.78 meg viewers.

Overall, Fox enjoyed its maximal-rated gloom yet in the demonstrate and in entire audience, as ooze as bill the maximal-rated end of day on some relay meshwork in at small 17 years.

Sadly, I didn't gaze at as I was traveling. Thank God in search TIVO and YouTube.