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By Gerry Smith

February 15, 2022 at 10:42 AM EST

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February 15, 2022 at 1:34 PM EST

A combined audience of 112.3 million people watched the Super Bowl on various outlets, a 16% jump from last year’s diminished viewership.

Some 99.2 million people viewed the game on NBC, another 1.9 million on its Spanish-language sibling Telemundo, and 11.2 million on streaming services such as Peacock, the network said in an email, making it the most-watched Super Bowl in five years.