Super Bowl XLVIII set a record on Sunday (Feb. 2), becoming the most-watched television event in U.S. history. Despite a blowout game, where the Seattle Seahawks crushed the Denver Broncos 43-8 victory, the championship game drew 111.5 million viewers.
The game also set standards for the most-streamed sports event online and, with 24.9 million tweets, the biggest U.S. live TV event on Twitter.
The Seattle victory eclipsed the 111.3 million viewers who watched the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, according to the Nielsen company. Until last year's game dipped slightly to 108.7 million, the Super Bowl had set ratings records for the previous three years in a row.
"We were a little surprised, absolutely," Bill Wanger, executive vice president for programming and research at Fox Sports, told ESPN.
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