NBC drops Who performance from closing ceremonies...

Who Princess

DS1119 wrote:

Because the major network in the US chose to put on a pilot of a comedy show instead of showing the closing ceremonies. Have you seen the headlines across the US throughout the olympics? Baseball and football minicamps were more featured instead of the Olympics. Todays headlines were even more of an indication. I think my local paper didn;t even mention the olympics except for the medal count.

Well, my local paper was full of stories about it. Every day. The headline for the sports page on Sunday was about Usain Bolt and the Jamaican relay team setting a world record.

And there's this: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv ... 7654.story

DS1119

Who Princess wrote:

Well, my local paper was full of stories about it. Every day. The headline for the sports page on Sunday was about Usain Bolt and the Jamaican relay team setting a world record.

And there's this: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv ... 7654.story

I do beleive it can best be summed up with these quotes from the LA article you posted.


"with a total of 219.4 million viewing at least part of the coverage"

"The Super Bowl, for example, has in recent years set ratings records with about 100 million total viewers." 100 million viewers across a 6 hour span vs. 219 over a 17 day span.

"Of course, the Olympics unfolded over 17 days and across multiple networks in the NBC family, a record-breaking 5,535 hours in all, so the company had plenty of time and channel space to rack up that Everest-sized total."

"All of the top 10 "most-watched events" on Nielsen's list consist of Olympics, and all were telecast on NBC except for the Lillehammer Games in 1994, which ran on CBS. For the purposes of the statistics books, Nielsen counts someone as a "viewer" if that person watched as little as six minutes of a telecast."

You can put pig farming on enough channels over a long enough stretch and get ratings.

Indifference71

FrankY59 wrote:

I do not quite grasp the concept of the Olympics. I am an ultra competitive sports junkie and bleed Detroit sports. But watching Olympics sports just does not make sense to me. Am I supposed to cheer for USA because I am American?! Does the medal count mean anything when the population of China is 1 billion people?! I don't think it is fair to say that a basketball player from the USA team is equal to another that plays for Australia. I just think there are too many factors that plays into the development of these athletes that makes the playing field just uneven. I dunno, maybe I am missing something.

Pretty simple concept. The best athletes from around the world representing their countries. Sure, some countries may have advantages when it comes to development of the athletes, but you could easily say that about any sport.

Indifference71

DS1119 wrote:

I do beleive it can best be summed up with these quotes from the LA article you posted.


"with a total of 219.4 million viewing at least part of the coverage"

"The Super Bowl, for example, has in recent years set ratings records with about 100 million total viewers." 100 million viewers across a 6 hour span vs. 219 over a 17 day span.

"Of course, the Olympics unfolded over 17 days and across multiple networks in the NBC family, a record-breaking 5,535 hours in all, so the company had plenty of time and channel space to rack up that Everest-sized total."

"All of the top 10 "most-watched events" on Nielsen's list consist of Olympics, and all were telecast on NBC except for the Lillehammer Games in 1994, which ran on CBS. For the purposes of the statistics books, Nielsen counts someone as a "viewer" if that person watched as little as six minutes of a telecast."

You can put pig farming on enough channels over a long enough stretch and get ratings.

It's obvious you just don't like the Olympics. They averaged 31 million viewers a night. That's pretty impressive to me. Obviously it is nowhere near the Super Bowl, but there are plenty of people out there who cared and obviously watched the Olympics.

Who Princess

Indifference71 wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

I do beleive it can best be summed up with these quotes from the LA article you posted.


"with a total of 219.4 million viewing at least part of the coverage"

"The Super Bowl, for example, has in recent years set ratings records with about 100 million total viewers." 100 million viewers across a 6 hour span vs. 219 over a 17 day span.

"Of course, the Olympics unfolded over 17 days and across multiple networks in the NBC family, a record-breaking 5,535 hours in all, so the company had plenty of time and channel space to rack up that Everest-sized total."

"All of the top 10 "most-watched events" on Nielsen's list consist of Olympics, and all were telecast on NBC except for the Lillehammer Games in 1994, which ran on CBS. For the purposes of the statistics books, Nielsen counts someone as a "viewer" if that person watched as little as six minutes of a telecast."

You can put pig farming on enough channels over a long enough stretch and get ratings.

It's obvious you just don't like the Olympics. They averaged 31 million viewers a night. That's pretty impressive to me. Obviously it is nowhere near the Super Bowl, but there are plenty of people out there who cared and obviously watched the Olympics.

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