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Super Bowl coverage dominates TV’s week

NEW YORK

Television’s biggest event keeps getting bigger.

This year’s Super Bowl between Seattle and Denver was the most-watched TV event in U.S. history, with an audience even larger than the Nielsen company originally thought. Nielsen said Tuesday that the game was seen by 112.2 million viewers, or 700,000 more than it initially had estimated the previous day.

Fox’s comedy “New Girl,” featuring a guest appearance by Prince, reached 26.3 million people in the coveted time slot after the game.

Television’s most-popular drama last week was CBS’ “Blue Bloods,” seen by 12.93 million. Even though a handful of other shows, such as “NCIS,” had repeat episodes, it’s an achievement for a Friday night series to draw such a strong audience. Over the past few years, the broadcast networks have deemphasized Fridays, which is second only to Saturdays for the least-viewed night of the week.

Fox’s “The Following” reached just over 6 million viewers for its second-season premiere, Nielsen said.

Thanks to Sunday night’sSFlbgame, Fox averaged 30.1 mil- lion viewers in prime time. CBS had 7.8 million, NBC had 4.8 million, ABC had 4.6 million, Univision had 2.9 million, the CW had 1.7 million, Telemundo had 1.4 million and ION Television had 1.3 million.

Associated Press