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  "id": "super-bowl-lx-125-6-million-viewers",
  "slug": "super-bowl-lx-125-6-million-viewers",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/super-bowl-lx-125-6-million-viewers/",
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  "claim": "Super Bowl LX drew an estimated 125.6 million viewers (Nielsen, Feb. 2026)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"How many people watched the Super Bowl?\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Nielsen",
    "title": "Super Bowl LX Delivers 125.6 Million Viewers (Feb. 10, 2026, updated)",
    "year": "2026"
  },
  "quote": "An estimated 125.6* million viewers watched Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8, according to Nielsen's Big Data + Panel measurement.",
  "method": "Nielsen Big Data + Panel measurement, including out-of-home and digital viewing across NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital and NFL+.",
  "drift": [
    "None — second most-watched Super Bowl, behind Super Bowl LIX (127.7 million) in 2025; first Super Bowl measured with Big Data + Panel"
  ],
  "interest": "Nielsen sells audience measurement.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Nielsen estimated that 125.6 million viewers watched Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, 2026, the second-largest Super Bowl audience on record.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Nielsen — Super Bowl LX Delivers 125.6 Million Viewers",
      "url": "https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2026/super-bowl-lx/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Game played Feb. 8, 2026; figure updated after the initial Feb. 10 report of 124.9 million",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}