An average of 108.4 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers Sunday night in Super Bowl XLVII, the third-largest audience for a television event on record, according to CBS, which aired the football game.


哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)透露，平均有1.084亿人在周日晚上观看了第47届"超级碗"决赛。在这场比赛中，巴尔的摩乌鸦队(Baltimore Ravens)击败了旧金山49人队(San Francisco 49ers)。这场电视体育赛事所吸引到的观众数量在历史上可以排到第三位。哥伦比亚广播公司负责直播这场比赛。



The viewership figures exclude a half-hour period when the game was interrupted by a partial power outage at the Superdome, CBS said. The network continued to broadcast footage from the stadium during that time, but play was halted.


哥伦比亚广播公司说，比赛进行期间"超级穹顶"(Superdome)体育场出现部分断电的情况，比赛因此中断，上述收视率数据并不包括此期间的观众数量。哥伦比亚广播公司在此期间继续播放来自体育场内的画面，但比赛是中断的。



While viewership dipped slightly during the power outage, it recovered and continued to rise for the remainder of the game. The audience was largest in the final 17 minutes of coverage, when nearly 51% of households with televisions tuned in.


虽然停电期间收视率略有下降，在比赛继续开始以后收视率得以恢复并持续上升。在电视直播进入到最后17分钟时，收视率达到最高，当时有近51%的家庭打开电视收看这场比赛。



Super Bowl games hold the top three places for most-watched television events, with last year's attracting a record 111.3 million viewers. That was only slightly higher than the 111.0 million viewers for the 2011 Super Bowl, according to Nielsen.


在观看人数最多的电视体育赛事中，前三名均被"超级碗"比赛包揽。去年的"超级碗"比赛吸引了创纪录的1.113亿观众。尼尔森(Nielsen)的数据显示，这一数字略高于2011年"超级碗"比赛吸引的1.11亿观众。



CBS is the broadcast network of CBS Corp.


哥伦比亚广播公司是CBS Corp.的广播电视网。



JOHN JANNARONE