List of Super Bowl lead-out programs

The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), and is typically the highest-rated single television broadcast in the United States of any given year. As such, the television network that broadcasts the game will typically use it as a tent-pole for another program, airing following the conclusion of the game telecast, to take advantage of and retain the expanded audience.

The lead-out program is typically a highly anticipated special episode or a season premiere of an existing primetime program (such as a flagship drama, sitcom, or reality series), or in some cases, the premiere of a new series (Since 2022, each time NBC airs the game, the Winter Olympic Games normally serves as the lead out program as NBC has rights to both events in the U.S. and both events take place at the same time).

In many cases, the local markets of the participating teams may preempt the lead-out program, delay airing the lead-out program until after late local news, or move it to an alternate channel to air local postgame coverage after the network concludes its coverage.

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