NFL TV viewership records continue to fall in this year’s playoffs. Sunday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills broke all of them.
The Chiefs 27-24 win was the most-watched playoff game in history, with 50.393 million viewers.
It is the first non-Super Bowl to get more than 50 million viewers. It peaked with more than 56 million viewers.
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NFL TV ratings for Chiefs win over Bills up double digits over last year
Sunday’s game was up 10% for NFL TV viewership over the San Francisco 49ers 19-12 win over the Dallas Cowboys in the same time frame, which got 45.659 million viewers.
It was the most-watched game since Super Bowl LVII last February and for Paramount+, was the the most streamed event ever.
All four networks that carried the NFL got record audiences over the weekend:
- NBC gets largest Divisional Round game since Joe Montana
- Fox gets record audience for Saturday sports event
- ESPN gets best audience ever for Ravens win over Texans