2025 CFL TV Ratings and All Sports

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Happy New Year 2025.

We have four months to go until the CFL season, so we will make do with everything else for now.

It’s time for a new ratings thread, a periodic favourite of the CFL Forum with occasional fiery hot takes too.

This example for such a take is only a test since it’s the first post, so please do not be alarmed if the case, for this is only a test and it does not count.

That damn Taylor Swift and those Chiefs won the day for the ratings again.
And there was not a damn thing you could do about it other than not watch, but admit it, many of you did anyway, and you liked it too.

It was the most-watched AFC Championship on TV since the late 1980s, when they started measuring the ratings.

I’m just going to say the most-watched such game EVER, and a record for the sportscasting legend who is also a CFL Fan and forum friend Jim Nantz, because millions like me were watching on Paramount+ and not on a TV.

CBS averaged an audience of 57.7 million for the AFC title game between the Bills and Chiefs, dramatically won by Kansas City 32–29, with that viewership representing the most-watched AFC championship game since the late 1980s advent of Nielsen’s People Meter measurement system. The figure surpassed last year’s NFC title contest, also played in the later 6:30 p.m. ET broadcast slot and drawing 56.7 million, by 1.7%.

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Elks should have promos for season ticket holders, such as a T Swift concert lucky draw.

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I did watch the game because of the game itself, not because of Swift.

Sad that the NFL is more concerned about Swifty instead of the game itself (Swifty had more camera shots which is one too many).

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Well the NFL and its broadcasters know how to put on a great show. Now if the football itself was that good… Imagine?

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I watched because of Taylor. I sort of lost interest in the NFL and Bills when I found out the Bills lost to the TigerCats. It’s just not the same anymore

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Enjoy the Super Bowl too then and make your pick here for even more free fun!

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Here are some comments on that vast streaming viewership via TSN in Canada and on Canadian TV ratings for the Super Bowl.

Details on the TV ratings in the US are going to be in the next post.

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The most-watched event in US television history remains the moon landing estimated at a peak of 150 million in the US, which was before many of us were born, but anyway this blowout Super Bowl won by the Philadelphia Eagles, the new champs, was still the second-most watched event in US television history!

Even in an emphatic rout for the Eagles, Super Bowl LIX made U.S. television history.

The game, won by Philadelphia over Kansas City 40-22, drew an average audience of 126 million on Fox, according to initial projections. The figure beat last year’s Super Bowl by 2% and set a new mark as the most-watched event ever on U.S. television.

The unprecedented figure defied normal viewership trends in a blowout game such as this, which typically would show a sizable reduction in viewers in the latter portion of the competition. Super Bowl LIX, however, featured two popular teams (the Eagles and Chiefs), numerous pop culture intersections highlighted by music superstars Taylor Swift and halftime entertainment Kendrick Lamar, and an appearance by U.S. President Donald Trump that was the first to the NFL title game by a sitting commander-in-chief.

Additionally, the game was an early debut of a newly expanded measurement methodology from Nielsen that included betting counting of out-of-home audiences critical to an event such as this.

The game audience peaked in the second quarter with a figure of 135.7 million.

Also of note is that this was the first Super Bowl with a free streaming option, which was facilitated via Tubi, which I used to watch it because I had to be at work though for a very quiet shift and enjoyable all the same. The streaming audience had to be a record in the US as well.

And then much like CFL+, the sign-up was free and easy, no new to create some stupid account and password, and all that nonsense just to do watch TV, sort of like we’ve been doing our entire lives until some of those dweebs and bojacks came around and “reverse improve” everything because they thought it would be cool to have a new streaming app for every single channel out there!

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I agree but they say because it was not just 1 network broadcasting it and that it’s a NEWS event that the official record is this superbore.

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Here, I’ve moved this to the annual Super Bowl and/or NFL-bashing thread for you.

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you didn’t need to do that. it wasn’t a superbowl NFL bash. just indicating why they claim this years superbowl is #1 all time.

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It’s all about the half acts (Kendrick Lamar drawing the most viewers).

The game , at times, is secondary.

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that’s the worst part is they care more about what Rapper does the Half-Time show than the game itself.

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