Super Bowl Ratings Hit 10-Year Low With Patriots' Lackluster 13-3 Win

Matt Webb Mitovich
Updated

The Patriots’ lackluster Super Bowl win is CBS’ loss.

The Eye network’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIII on Sunday night scored a 44.9 in metered market results, down 5 percent from last year and marking a 10-year low for the Big Game (since the Steelers’ 27-23 win over the Cardinals in 2009, which scored a 42.0).

Super Bowl LIII’s 44.9 is just shy of the prelim numbers for the 2010 Saints/Colts match-up, which went on to report a total audience of 106.5 million viewers.

In a TVLine poll, 91 percent of respondents predicted that this year’s game would fall below 2018’s nine-year audience low (0f 103.4 million viewers), while 77 said say it would deliver fewer than 100 million viewers.

Check back later today for total audience figures for the Super Bowl, as well as numbers for the post-game premiere of The World’s Best.

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