Sunday Ratings: Steelers Win 2nd Biggest Super Bowl Ever

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Specials, Sports, NBC, The Office, Ratings

One of the greatest matches in Super Bowl history attracted one of the largest audiences ever:

• Yesterday’s tight battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals nabbed 95.4 million viewers. Only last year’s contest between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants scored more. (That game rallied 97.5 million.)
• Super Bowl XLIII proved the nation still loves its football. For four years now, viewership has surpassed 90 million.
• Unfortunately, a special episode of The Office didn’t do as well as the game. Despite earning 22 million sets of eyes, the program roped in the smallest post-game audience since 2005.

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Sunday Ratings: Sports Night on FOX

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Amazing Race, The, Desperate Housewives, Ratings

Last night, FOX greatly benefited from the Arizona Cardinals/Dallas Cowboys OT period. That matchup, combined with Game 3 of the NLCS, gave the network wins with the viewers and the demos yesterday.

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• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (11.3 million, 3.7/9 in 18-49) sawed off 400,000.
• NBC’s Sunday Night Football (11.2 million, 4.5/11) was down 1.6 million.
• The Amazing Race (9.2 million, 2.8/7) left 4.2 million behind.
• Approximately 8.6 million saw the Dodgers take a game of the NLCS (2.6/7).
• Valentine (1 million, 0.4/1) did the same as last week.

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