The Kansas City Chiefs close victory over the Cincinnati Bengals during Sunday’s AFC Championship Game scored them a ticket to the Super Bowl LVII — and it scored CBS the most-watched NFL Conference Championship in four years.
The matchup was up 11% over last year’s AFC Championship with 53.1M viewers. It was also the most-watched television program on any network since Super Bowl LVI.
According to CBS, the game hit a peak of 59.4M viewers. The network didn’t say what time period the game, which began at 6:30 p.m.
ET, hit its peak. The AFC Championship Game followed CBS Sports’ most-watched NFL ON CBS regular season in seven years. The playoff games have averaged 40.8M viewers in postseason.
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