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Ratings: another record for Super Bowl (Yahoo Sports)
 For the fourth time in five years, the Super Bowl has set a record for the most-watched television event in U.S. history, drawing 111.5 million viewers even though the Seattle Seahawks' 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos wasn't really competitive. ''Big-event television is a great way for people to have a communal event, to talk about it socially and to talk about it as a group,'' said Bill Wanger, executive vice president for programming and research at Fox Sports. They've just gone up to a different level.'' The game also set standards for the most-streamed sports event online and, with 24.9 million tweets, the biggest U.S. live TV event on Twitter. The Seattle victory eclipsed the 111.3 million viewers who watched the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, according to the Nielsen company. More...
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