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CTV's Giant night

CTV's Giant night

CTV announced today that the Canadian television audience for Super Bowl XLII peaked at 5.8 million viewers during the game's exciting final minutes. The game became the no. 1 show of the year in Canada, reaching 11 million viewers.

CTV based the announcement on preliminary overnight figures from BBM Nielsen Media Research.

A combined audience of 5.07 million viewers on CTV and RDS (French language) surpassed the previous record of 4.98 million in 2006 on Global (4.281 million) / RDS (702,000).

CTV’s first-ever broadcast of the Super Bowl peaked at 5.83 million viewers at 10:02 p.m. ET, during the thrilling final moments of the NY Giants’ 17-14 upset victory over the New England Patriots. Nearly 11 million viewers (10.7 million) watched some or all of the broadcast.

Super Bowl XLII became the No. 1 show of the year in Canada with an average audience of 4.16 million viewers, up 24% over last year’s broadcast (3.367 million, Global). Another 905,000 watched a French-language broadcast on RDS, up 13% compared to 2007 (798,000) on RDS.

Final Super Bowl audience numbers will be available in the coming weeks.