CBS Sports shattered NFL viewership records throughout the year and capped off its most-watched NFL season ever with another massive audience for the AFC Championship Game as the NFL ON CBS recorded the top two most-watched games of the season:

• The AFC Championship Game is the most-watched game of this year’s postseason on any network and averaged 48.618 million viewers, up +10% from last year’s comparable early game.

• Patriots-Broncos peaked at the game’s conclusion with nearly 58 million viewers (57.759).

• The NFL ON CBS delivered the Top Two most-watched games of the season on any network:

1. Chiefs-Cowboys, Thanksgiving, 57.231 million viewers

2. Patriots-Broncos, AFC Championship, 48.618 million viewers

• CBS Sports had its most-watched NFL season ever, averaging 23.094 million viewers across the regular season and postseason. Paramount+ also registered its most-streamed NFL season ever.

• The 14 NFL ON CBS national games (10 Sunday national windows, Thanksgiving and three postseason games) averaged 31.374 million viewers, the best ever for the Network.

Source: Nielsen Big Data + Panel