Editing Muhammad Ali (section)

===Television appearances===
{{Further|Boxing career of Muhammad Ali#Television viewership}}

Muhammad Ali's fights were some of the world's [[List of most-watched television broadcasts|most-watched television broadcasts]], setting television viewership records. His most-watched fights drew an estimated 1{{ndash}}2&nbsp;billion viewers worldwide between 1974 and 1980, and were the world's most-watched live television broadcasts at the time.<ref name="briefly"/> Outside of fights, he made many other television appearances. The following table lists known viewership figures of his non-fight television appearances. For television viewership figures of his fights, see ''[[Boxing career of Muhammad Ali#Television viewership|Boxing career of Muhammad Ali: Television viewership]]''.

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! Date !! Broadcast !! Region(s) !! Viewers !! Source
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| {{dts|1971|October|17|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]'' (series 1, episode 14)
| United Kingdom
| 12,000,000
| {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
|-
| {{dts|1974|January|25|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]'' (series 3, episode 18)
| United Kingdom
| 12,000,000
| {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
|-
| {{dts|1974|December|7|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]''
| United Kingdom
| 12,000,000
| {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
|-
| {{dts|1977|March|28|format=mdy}}
| [[49th Academy Awards]]
| United States
| 39,719,000
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Academy Awards Show Ratings |url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/reference/academy-awards-show-ratings/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008211435/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/reference/academy-awards-show-ratings/ |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |website=[[TV by the Numbers]] |date=February 18, 2009}}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1978|December|25|format=mdy}}
| ''[[This Is Your Life (American franchise)|This Is Your Life]]'' ("Muhammad Ali")
| United States
| 60,000,000
| <ref>{{cite book |last=Hauser |first=Thomas |title=Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times |date=2012 |publisher=[[Anova Books]] |isbn=978-1-907554-90-2 |page=431 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7K6-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT431 |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224607/https://books.google.com/books?id=7K6-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT431#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1979|October|24|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]]'' ("[[List of Diff'rent Strokes episodes|Arnold's Hero]]")
| United States
| 41,000,000
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Diff'rent Strokes – The Complete Second Season DVD Review |url=http://www.sitcomsonline.com/diffrentstrokesseason2dvdreview.html |website=Sitcoms Online |access-date=September 1, 2018 |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224192558/https://www.sitcomsonline.com/diffrentstrokesseason2dvdreview.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|1981|January|17|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]'' (series 10, episode 32)
| United Kingdom
| 12,000,000
| {{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{dts|1996|July|19|format=mdy}}
| rowspan="2" | [[1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony]]
| Worldwide
| 3,500,000,000
| <ref name="Hajeski">{{cite book |last=Hajeski |first=Nancy J. |title=Ali: The Official Portrait of "The Greatest" of All Time |date=2013 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-60710-983-9 |page=293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ClZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA293 |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224610/https://books.google.com/books?id=6ClZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA293#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| United States
| 209,000,000
| <ref>{{cite news |last1=Toff |first1=Benjamin |title=Olympics Ratings Set Record |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26arts-OLYMPICSRATI_BRF.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 25, 2008 |access-date=September 4, 2018 |archive-date=September 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904120949/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26arts-OLYMPICSRATI_BRF.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|2001|September|21|format=mdy}}
| ''[[America: A Tribute to Heroes]]''
| United States
| 60,000,000
| <ref>{{cite web |title='Heroes' Telethon Raises $150 Million |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/78313/heroes-telethon-raises-150-million/ |website=billboard.com |date=September 25, 2001 |access-date=March 29, 2021 |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127224333/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/78313/heroes-telethon-raises-150-million |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|2007|January|4|format=mdy}}
| ''[[Michael Parkinson|Michael Parkinson's Greatest Entertainers]]''
| United Kingdom
| 3,630,000
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Weekly top 30 programmes |url=https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/ |publisher=[[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board]] |date=January 7, 2007 |access-date=September 1, 2018 |archive-date=February 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211081646/http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| {{dts|2016|June|9|format=mdy}}
| [[#Memorial|Muhammad Ali memorial service]]
| Worldwide
| 1,000,000,000
| <ref name="alicenter">{{cite web |title=Annual Report 2016 |url=https://alicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016-Annual-Report-FINAL_spreads.pdf |publisher=[[Muhammad Ali Center]] |date=January 2017 |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203175252/https://alicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016-Annual-Report-FINAL_spreads.pdf }}</ref>
|-
!
! Total viewership
! Worldwide
! 4,692,349,000
!
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