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Super Bowl gets 111.9M viewers, down from ’15

NEW YORK

Setting television viewership records with the Super Bowl has become almost routine, but this year’s average of 111.9 million viewers for Denver’s victory over Carolina is down from the past two years.

That makes Sunday’s game the third most-watched event in U.S. television history, the Nielsen company said Monday. Last year’s down-to-the-wire contest between New England and Seattle keeps the record with 114.4 million viewers.

The Super Bowl had seemed to know no ceiling in popularity, setting viewership records in six of seven years until this one.

CBS, the nation’s most-watched network, had pushed the event hard the past few months, playing up the historical nature of the 50th Super Bowl game. But Denver’s 24-10 victory wasn’t a sizzler, with defenses dominating the marquee quarterback matchup between Peyton Manning and reigning NFL MVP Cam Newton.

Even more than television, social media reflected far less engagement in the game than there was last year, when the result was decided on a last-minute, goal-line interception.

Twitter said there were 16.9 million tweets about the game, sharply down from last year’s 25.1 million. Facebook reported there were 200 million posts, comments or “likes,” down from 265 million last year. This year, 60 million people took to Facebook to converse about the game; last year it was 65 million.

For both Twitter and Facebook, the moment of highest social media activity occurred in the minute after the halftime show featuring Coldplay, Beyonce and Bruno Mars.

Photo business set up in Casey Anthony’s name

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

A photography business has been set up in South Florida under Casey Anthony’s name, and an address listed for the business belongs to a private investigator with ties to the mother acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter.

Documents filed with the Florida Division of Corporations show that Case Photography LLC was established last November. The story first was reported by DailyMail.com.

An address listed for the business is the West Palm Beach home of Patrick McKenna, a private investigator with ties to Anthony.

McKenna refused to talk to a reporter outside his home Monday. McKenna was the lead private investigator for Anthony’s defense team during her 2011 trial on allegations that she murdered her daughter, Caylee. She was acquitted in a trial that was broadcast live on cable television and garnered worldwide attention.

Casey Anthony was born in Warren in 1986 to George and Cindy Anthony, who lived in Howland before moving the family to Florida in 1989.

Associated Press