Preliminary ratings are out for last night’s Super Bowl XLVI, and the Patriots VS. Giants match brought in the third highest audience to date.

Entertainment Weekly reports:

Sunday’s game delivered a massive overnight household rating of 47.9 — less than one percent lower than the Super Bowl’s all-time high telecasts (47.9 for both Super Bowl XLV and Super Bowl XXI).

While NBC’s post-game presentation of the second season opener of The Voice (arguably the more important telecast for the network) garnered a hearty 19.4 rating. That’s up 27 percent from Fox’s post-Super Bowl telecast of Glee last year.

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