May 20, 2024
A promo image for the AFC Championship game on Paramount Plus.
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The numbers are in, and CBS Sports activities says that Sunday’s AFC Championship sport (consider it because the NFL’s semifinals) is the “most-streamed reside occasion ever” on Paramount+.

That’s clearly factor for everybody concerned, however much more so on condition that Tremendous Bowl 2024 will probably be obtainable on Paramount+ on February 11. That’s along with the same old CBS broadcast feeds, which embody streaming on YouTube TV or Hulu with Reside TV, or on cable, and even watching at no cost through an over-the-air antenna. The Paramount+ numbers noticed double-digit development over the 2023 matchup, in line with a press launch, together with within the streaming minutes and common minute viewers classes. (Precise numbers weren’t given, although.)

Paramount+ was only one a part of the image, nonetheless. CBS says that the sport — which noticed the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs dismantle the Baltimore Ravens — was the most-watched within the historical past of the AFC Championship, averaging 55.473 million viewers. The earlier file was barely decrease, with the Jets and Steelers pulling in 54.850 million in 2011.

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In different helpful numbers, the Chiefs-Ravens matchup noticed a 17% enhance in viewers for a similar early window (as within the afternoon time slot), which in 2023 featured the 49erstaking on the Eagles. This yr’s sport peaked at simply over 64 million viewers.

And the sport was essentially the most watched non-Tremendous Bowl program on CBS for the reason that 1994 Winter Olympics on February 25, 1994 — which was headlined by Nancy Kerrigan going up in opposition to Tonya Harding — only a month or so after Kerrigan was assaulted throughout observe as a part of a plot orchestrated by Harding’s ex-husband.

So the AFC Championship was large — however there’s a really seemingly likelihood that we’ll see even greater numbers for the Tremendous Bowl. It’s an even bigger sport, for starters. After which there’s the truth that of us are going to tune in simply to observe the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, which is an occasion unto itself. After which there’s Taylor Swift, presuming that she’s capable of make it to the sport after her personal present in Japan the day earlier than. Or, erm, after. Or nonetheless that worldwide date line factor works.

Tremendous Bowl LVIII kickoff is scheduled for six:30 p.m. on CBS, Paramount+, and Nickelodeon, amongst different locations. Keep tuned. It’s going to be an enormous one.

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