Monday, June 29, 2026

Super Bowl Ratings: Mahomes, Rihanna Lead Broadcast to 112.1 Million, Third Highest Broadcast Ever

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The Super Bowl was a hit.

The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles scored the third biggest audience in TV history.

A total of 112.1 million people tuned in to watch the game, not to mention Rihanna’s half time show.

That’s within a whisker of last year’s ratings, when 112.3 million people watched the Los Angeles Rams win over the Cincinnati Bengals.

Advertisers were certainly satisfied, and Rihanna’s records are now clogging the charts. So it all worked out for everyone, except the Eagles, who thought they’d win.

There’s always next year!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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