--- title: Early Super Bowl Ratings Set Record description: The Patriots' win was the most-watched in TV history canonical: https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-02T15:14:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:03:56.591Z article:section: Sports og:title: Super Bowl Sets TV Ratings Record og:description: The Patriots' win was the most-watched in TV history og:url: https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd999f247b700e5a/69877d268e0601727845a13d/tombrady.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: AMFOOT - NFL - SUPERBOWL og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Super Bowl Sets TV Ratings Record twitter:description: The Patriots' win was the most-watched in TV history twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd999f247b700e5a/69877d268e0601727845a13d/tombrady.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Super Bowl XLIX Was Most Watched Ever by [James Hibbard / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibbard / Entertainment Weekly Feb 2, 2015 3:14 PM CUT  Quarterback Tom Brady of New England Patriots is surrounded by cameras following victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. Quarterback Tom Brady of New England Patriots is surrounded by cameras following victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona.TIMOTHY A. CLARY—Getty Images by [James Hibbard / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibbard / Entertainment Weekly Feb 2, 2015 3:14 PM CUT Super Bowl XLIX is looking like the most-watched event in TV history According to early ratings provided by NBC, the Patriots’ 28-24 win over Seahawks delivered the highest overnight household rating in Super Bowl history yesterday with a 49.7. That’s up 4 percent from last year in the big game and up 3 percent from the previous record-holding Super Bowl, the Ravens-49ers XLVII in 2013. More to come as additional data becomes available _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/02/early-super-bowl-ratings-set-record?hootPostID=4af87ca4d1097055846a1b2c5785ee98 "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/"},"headline":"Super Bowl XLIX Was Most Watched Ever","datePublished":"2015-02-02T15:14:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:03:56.591Z","description":"The Patriots' win was the most-watched in TV history","url":"https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/","keywords":["NFL","Seattle Seahawks","New England Patriots"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd999f247b700e5a/69877d268e0601727845a13d/tombrady.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibbard / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd999f247b700e5a/69877d268e0601727845a13d/tombrady.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"AMFOOT - NFL - SUPERBOWL","caption":"AMFOOT - NFL - SUPERBOWL","creditText":"TIMOTHY A. CLARY—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nfl/","name":"NFL"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3692069/super-bowl-record-ratings/","name":"Super Bowl XLIX Was Most Watched Ever"}}]}] ```