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FOX Sports touts superb Super Bowl 57 ratings

Barry Werner
·2 min read

The game was one of the best Super Bowls. How did the Kansas City Chiefs’ stirring victory over the Philadelphia Eagles do when it came to ratings?

The day after Harrison Butker’s kick boosted the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl victory in franchise history, FOX Sports said the numbers were, um, superb,

The 57th game ranks as the third-most watched in Super Bowl history, per the network on Monday.

Some other numbers:

SUPER BOWL LVII HIGHLIGHTS

  • Super Bowl LVII drew an average audience of 113 million across television (FOX and FOX Deportes) and digital (FOX and NFL properties)

  • FOX’s average audience represents the second most-watched non-overtime Super Bowl on record and the second most-watched program in FOX Sports history

  • 182.6 million viewers watched all or part of Super Bowl LVII on FOX and FOX Deportes

  • Super Bowl LVII on FOX ran away in primetime viewership across all networks with a 40.0/77 household rating/share

To the surprise of no one, the highest metered markets were the cities the teams represented.

METERED MARKETS

  • Local markets were led by Kansas City with a 52.0/87 rating/share and Philadelphia with a 46.3/77 rating/share. Host market Phoenix posted a +23% increase over last year’s Super Bowl with a 39.5/76 ratings/share

  • Top metered markets available for Super Bowl LVII:

1.

Kansas City

52.0/87

2.

Philadelphia

46.3/77

3.

Cincinnati

45.9/77

4.

Detroit

43.4/74

5.

Pittsburgh

43.0/73

6.

Milwaukee

42.4/74

7.

Norfolk

42.1/70

8.

Charlotte

42.0/74

9.

Minneapolis

41.9/77

10.

St. Louis

41.6/74

 

Story originally appeared on Touchdown Wire