CBS Scores 50M Viewers For NFL Divisional Playoff Game

After a record-setting regular season, the NFL ON CBS continues to deliver record viewership with massive numbers in the postseason.

CBS Sports’ presentation of Chiefs-Bills is the most-watched NFL Divisional Playoff Game ever and the first to surpass 50 million viewers, averaging 50.393 million viewers and up +10% vs. last year’s comparable window (Cowboys-49ers, 45.659 million viewers). The previous record was 48.522 million viewers for Cowboys-Packers on Jan. 15, 2017.

Kansas City’s 27-24 victory was the most-watched program on any network since Super Bowl LVII (Feb. 12, 2023).

Sunday’s game peaked with more than 56 million viewers (56.250).

Paramount+ recorded its most-streamed live event ever.

The NFL ON CBS’ record-setting Divisional Playoff Game follows CBS Sports’ most-watched regular season since the NFL returned to CBS in 1998 and the most-streamed NFL season ever on Paramount+.