AFC and NFC Championship Games have 40 million viewers

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The AFC and NFC Championship Games both drew big TV audiences on Sunday.

The Buccaneers ‘victory over the Packers in the NFC Championship game drew 44.77 million viewers on FOX, while the Chiefs’ victory over the Bills in the AFC Championship game drew 41.85 million viewers , according to the Hollywood Reporter.

This represents an audience increase of 5% compared to last year for NFC gaming and 2% for AFC gaming.

The NFL said the NFC game has an additional 1.6 million streaming viewers and the AFC game has 1.4 million streaming viewers.

Nothing on American television reaches anything close to the big NFL game audiences. The Oscars, generally America’s most watched TV show outside of football, drew 24 million viewers last year. The most popular scripted entertainment shows don’t have 20 million viewers.

The Super Bowl typically attracts over 100 million viewers.