One of the most popular searches over the last several days has been “when does the Super Bowl start?”  The actual game does not start until shortly after 6:30 pm eastern but the Fox Sports pregame show ill start at 2:00 pm.  With this in mind millions of diehard fans will look to listen to the Super Bowl XLV 2011 pregame show radio broadcast online as they will probably be doing other things to prepare themselves for the big event that will take place today.  Finding a live audio streaming feed should not be overly difficult.


With the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers vying for the Super Bowl title it will be very interesting to see just how many people watch and listen to this major event.  Last year the Super Bowl was the most watch cable TV event in history and that was between two teams that do not have the history that the Packers and Steelers have.  With this in mind it might be the case that even more people watch this year which will set the record once again.

Before the game gets started many will watch the four and a half our pre game that will be provided by Fox Sports but there will also be many that are looking to listen to the Super Bowl pregame show radio broadcast.  With the advancements in technology it is now the case that most sports fans will have the ability to listen to Westwood One or on Sirius XM satellite radio which will allow them to catch all of the action when it comes to Super Bowl XLV.  Remember that Sirius XM is a subscription service so if you are looking for a free live audio streaming feed realize that you might have to look elsewhere.

Here is a little bit of extra information about the Super Bowl on the Radio from Wikipedia:

As previously mentioned, Super Bowl I was aired by both CBS and NBC (the only Super Bowl to be aired by two networks), but neither network felt the need to preserve the game long-term; CBS saved the telecast for a few months and reran it as filler programming at least once before wiping it. Super Bowl II was aired exclusively by CBS and is also believed to have been erased. Though the telecast of Super Bowl III exists in full color, only half of the Super Bowl IV broadcast does (the rest was preserved by Canadian television in black-and-white), and the status of most of Super Bowl V remains unknown. It was not until Super Bowl VI that a continuous archive was established. The National Football League had its own filmmakers, NFL Films, filming the game with its own equipment, and preserving its own telecast on tape was not seen as a priority when another source was available though the commentating from the networks, as a result, were lost.
The highest-rated game according to Nielsen was Super Bowl XVI in 1982, which was watched in 49.1 percent of households (73 share), or 40,020,000 households at the time. Ratings for that game, a San Francisco victory over Cincinnati, may have been aided by a large blizzard which had affected much of the northeastern United States on game day, leaving residents to stay at home more than usual. Also, because network television was still the predominant means of viewership and pay television services (cable, and later satellite) were still relatively unavailable, there were not many choices of things to watch on television. Super Bowl XVI still ranks fourth on Nielsen’s list of top-rated programs of all time, and three other Super Bowls, XII, XVII, and XX, made the top ten.[15] 2010′s Super Bowl XLIV holds the record for total number of U.S. viewers, attracting an average audience of 106.5 million viewers.
Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 was the first major sports championship event to be broadcast in high-definition; furthermore the entire ABC Sunday night lineup that night was first entire lineup to be broadcast in high-definition.
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