Fox’s 2022 broadcast of Super Bowl LVII has a brand new rating.

Nielsen has added viewers to the general whole of the February 13, 2022 broadcast, and the brand new viewership makes the sport the trade’s most-watched TV occasion. In response to a revamped Nielsen report, 115.1 million viewers tuned in to look at the Huge Recreation throughout Fox, Fox Deportes, and varied streaming providers. Nielsen had beforehand reported that the published was seen by an estimated 113.06 million viewers.

“There have been two separate points, every of them accounting for an extra 1 million viewers,” explains Mike Mulvihill, govt vice p and head of technique and analytics for Fox Sports activities.

The NFL seen a disparity within the variety of folks stated to be watching the sport through NFL Community, and requested Nielsen to evaluate the matter, the chief says. That sparked a discovery of a glitch in how the content material was encoded so it might be acknowledged by Nielsen’s techniques. Nielsen then found a second downside within the tabulation of people that watched this system through “out of dwelling” strategies — corresponding to a TV at a bar, resort or restaurant.

The brand new outcomes imply that viewership for Tremendous Bowl LVII is up 2% over 2021’s broadcast of Tremendous Bowl LVI on NBC, and greater than the earlier most-watched sport, 2015’s Tremendous Bowl XLIX on NBC, which reached 114.4 million.

Fox’s broadcast of Tremendous Bowl LVII had been on monitor to be the second most-watched TV broadcast within the historical past of the trade. Now it’s first.

Fox can’t do a lot to monetize the published additional. Adverts for the Tremendous Bowl are bought with out viewers ensures, as each consumers and vendor are likely to agree the occasion will draw an enormous crowd. Fox secured about $600 million from its broadcast of the sport this yr, in line with remarks made by Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corp.’s CEO., throughout an investor name in February.