Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Super Bowl History for Ratings! Chiefs-49ers Beat Last Year, Set a Record with 123.4 Million Across All Platforms

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It was a Super Super Bowl last might for CBS.

The ratings are in, and the records have been broken.

Last night’s game brought in 123.4 million viewers, way up from last year’s 115 million. And that was already a record!

That number is across all CBS networks. But just on CBS it was 120 million. Exceptional. And CBS says altogether 200 million were watching at some point!

The combination of a great game played by hot teams, Taylor Swift, all the other celebrities, and so on plus Beyonce dropping new music — this Super Bowl was a rare American pageant. The homecoming queen/head cheerleader kissed the homecoming king, football captain. All that was missing was apple pie and a glass of milk!

Now the pressure is on for Kansas City to come back next fall and make it three in a row! Is it possible? Will Taylor and Travis Kelce tie the knot on the 50th yard line?

We can only hope.

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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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