Company Town : TV FACTS

Super Bowl XVI in 1982 was watched by more people than any other championship football game. Top 10 Super Bowls from 1967, the year of the first Super Bowl, to 1995, ranked by average audience percentage:

*--*

Rank Program Ntwk. Air date Aud. 1 Super Bowl XVI CBS Jan. 1982 49.1 2 Super Bowl XVII NBC Jan. 1983 48.6 3 Super Bowl XX NBC Jan. 1986 48.3 4 Super Bowl XII CBS Jan. 1978 47.2 5 Super Bowl XIII NBC Jan. 1979 47.1 6 Super Bowl XVIII CBS Jan. 1984 46.4 Tie Super Bowl XIX ABC Jan. 1985 46.4 8 Super Bowl XIV CBS Jan. 1980 46.3 9 Super Bowl XXI CBS Jan. 1987 45.8 10 Super Bowl XXVIII NBC Jan. 1994 45.5

*--*

Source: Nielsen Media Research