American football attracts third-largest TV audience

NEW YORK – The American football championship game between the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears was watched by 93,2 million people on Sunday, the third-largest television audience in US history.

It was the second-most watched Super Bowl, trailing the 1996 championship game, which had 94,1 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday. The only other programme that drew a bigger TV audience was the 1983 series finale of the Korean War-based situation comedy M-A-S-H, which was watched by nearly 106 million people – 77 per cent of the people who watched TV that night.Indianapolis won the game 29-17, which was broadcast on the CBS television network.Last year’s Super Bowl between Pittsburgh and Seattle drew 90,7 million viewers.Nampa-APThe only other programme that drew a bigger TV audience was the 1983 series finale of the Korean War-based situation comedy M-A-S-H, which was watched by nearly 106 million people – 77 per cent of the people who watched TV that night.Indianapolis won the game 29-17, which was broadcast on the CBS television network.Last year’s Super Bowl between Pittsburgh and Seattle drew 90,7 million viewers.Nampa-AP