Mon 4 Feb 2008
97.5
Posted by Jason D. under TV
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All you need to know about yesterday’s Super Bowl.
“ Nielsen estimates that an average aud of 97.5 million viewers watched on Fox as the Giants defeated the Patriots 17-14. Contest, which aired from 6:31 to 10:12 p.m. ET, was close throughout, with tune-in peaking at about 107 million near 10 o’clock ET, when Eli Manning connected with Plaxico Burress on the go-ahead touchdown.Game eclipsed the previous record for a Super Bowl, which was the 94.08 million for the Dallas-Pittsburgh contest on NBC in January 1996, and among all programs trails only the 105.97 million for the series finale of “MASH” on CBS in 1983.” -Variety.