USAT: Lions Wire audio clip

USAT: Lions Wire

Feb 15, 2022

Football fans in the Detroit media market were all doing the same thing on Sunday night: watching Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams win Super Bowl LVI. - Only the home of the AFC champion Bengals, Cincinnati, had a higher audience for the big game than Detroit. The Super Bowl pulled in a boffo 45.9 rating points from Neilsen and a 79 market share. That means 79 percent of all televisions that were on in the Detroit market were watching Stafford and the Rams triumph over the Bengals. - The ratings and market share in Detroit blew away the 36.7 and 77 the game pulled in Los Angeles, which also happened to be the host city. L.A. ranked 26th. - - #SuperBowl local market ratings:1. Cincinnati 46.1/842. Detroit 45.9/793. Pittsburgh 45.6/744. Columbus 45.4/805. Kansas City 44.6/766. Milwaukee 44/757. Cleveland 44/788. Boston 42.6/749. Philadelphia 42.3/7110. Jacksonville 41.3/73Not in top 10: Los Angeles 36.7/77 - — Bill Shea (@Bill_Shea19) February 15, 2022 - - - Nationally, over 167 million watched the Super Bowl. It was the most-watched television broadcast of anything in the last five years. - - - - - - - - - - - - Email - - - - - Sign up - - - - - - - - Like this article? - Sign up for the Lions Wire email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning - - - - An error has occured - - - Please re-enter your email address. - - - - - - Thanks for signing up! - - - You'll now receive the top Lions Wire stories each day directly in your inbox.

F i l t e r   &   S o r t