{"id":453197,"date":"2026-02-06T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:11:10","slug":"can-the-2026-super-bowl-keep-up-the-big-games-record-breaking-ratings-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453197\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the 2026 Super Bowl Keep Up the Big Game\u2019s Record-Breaking Ratings Streak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While linear TV ratings have cratered across the board, the Super Bowl has done the unthinkable: it\u2019s actually increasing in viewership. The Big Game grew to the event\u2019s biggest audience ever the last three years in a row, and with 2026\u2019s game coming up on Sunday, all eyes are on whether it can keep that record-breaking streak going.<\/p>\n<p>The TV landscape had already fragmented by the time the 2024 Super Bowl set a new viewership record with 123.7 million viewers tuning in to matchup between the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0507366\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> and the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0297630\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, rising 7.47% from the 115.1 million viewers brought in by the 2023 Chiefs-Philadelphia Eagles game, which, at the time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While linear TV ratings have cratered across the board, the Super Bowl has done the unthinkable: it\u2019s actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1508,1509,4,450,236,1510,954,451,1506,206,3,1507,1505,452,453,92],"class_list":["post-453197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-headlines","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}