NFL boasts massive TV audience for Sunday's Lions-49ers game
Newsy
More than 56 million people tuned in to Sunday's NFC Championship game between Detroit and San Francisco.
Sunday's NFC Championship between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers on Fox was watched by over 56 million Americans, bringing home, for now, the largest TV audience since last year's Super Bowl.
That could change, however, when CBS announces its data from Sunday's AFC Championship. That game, between the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, which was played earlier in the day, is also expected to have drawn a huge television audience.
According to Fox, viewership for this year's NFC Championship was up 19% from a year ago. It was the NFC Championship's largest TV audience since a 2012 overtime thriller between the Giants and 49ers.
Fox said viewership Sunday peaked between 9 and 9:15 p.m. ET as the 49ers completed the comeback victory over the Lions to clinch a berth into next month's Super Bowl. Over 58.9 million people were tuned in at the peak of the broadcast.
The game was also well-watched within the Detroit and San Francisco markets. According to Fox, 79% of televisions turned on in the Detroit market were tuned in to the game. San Francisco, which hosted the game, had 78% of the region's active televisions tuned in.
