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Super Bowl XLII Sets Ratings Records
By Neil Best -- NewsDay, 11/15/2007
PHOENIX - The Giants' upset of the Patriots forever will be seared into the memories of sports fans in New York. But they won't be the only ones.
Super Bowl XLII was a national phenomenon, easily setting viewership records for a U.S. sports event and attracting the second-largest audience for a measured sports or entertainment program.
It was watched by an average of nearly a third of Americans over the course of the game and half the population for at least a portion of it.
he average of 97.5 million viewers surpassed the 94.1 million for Super Bowl XXX (also in Arizona) between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers 12 years ago.
That was second only to the final episode of "M*A*S*H" on Feb. 28, 1983, which attracted an average audience of 106 million.
A record 148.3 million people watched at least a part of Super Bowl XLII, beating the previous mark of 144.4 million set four years ago.
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