Fox drew a 48.8 overnight for the first Super Bowl to ever go to overtime. That figure is down slightly from a 49.0 overnight for the Broncos’ 24-10 win over the Panthers last year, and down from a 49.7 overnight for the Patriots’ last-minute victory over the Seahawks two years ago. The audience last night was likely hindered by the Falcons' early lead, as the club was up 28-3 late in the third quarter. For the third time in the last four Super Bowls, a non-participating city topped all markets for the telecast, as Pittsburgh led the way last night with a 57.9 local rating (Austin Karp, Assistant Managing Editor).
The Fox Sports Go streaming service "dropped during the tumultuous fourth quarter of the game." The service's Twitter help account posted, "We’re aware of the streaming issue, and it’s been resolved. Please close and reopen the stream to get back to the game." But "many users replied to the tweet saying they were still unable to access the live stream" (EW.com, 2/5). The outage was reported on Twitter starting at about 9:38pm ET, and the feed was back "a couple of minutes later." It affected the English-language stream; users said that the "Spanish-language feed was available for the entire game" (SI.com, 2/6).
