Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Fox Sports Says Whopping 56.7 Million People Watched Detroit Lions-San Fran 49ers Game

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Fox Sports says last night’s game between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers was a massive, stunning hit.

They say with 56.7 million viewers it was the biggest NFC Championship Game in 12 years.

The game benefited from the earlier one on CBS, with the Kansas City Chiefs took down the Baltimore Ravens. Taylor Swift refereed from the boxes.

We still don’t have the CBS numbers for Sunday afternoon. So hang on…

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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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