CBS’ broadcast of the AFC Championship Game Sunday night became the most-watched TV program on any network since Super Bowl LVI last year. The Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals netted 53.12 million viewers, yielding the most-viewed NFL Conference Championship Game in four years.
The network’s game and post-game coverage also served as a great lead-in to its procedural “Fire Country,” recently renewed for a second season. Sunday’s special episode averaged 10.1 million viewers and a rating of 1.9 in Nielsen live plus same-day figures. It marked the largest post-AFC Championship Program on CBS since 2017. Last year, the Super Bowl game cracked the 100 million viewer mark with an average 112.3