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NBC's ratings slip as viewers lose interest in Winter Olympics causing network tension [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 23, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 02/23/2018 5:40:36 AM PST by C19fan

The slip in NBC's ratings have caused tension at the network and even Lester Holt's position at NBC Nightly News is reportedly in jeopardy.

ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir passed Holt in overall audience during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, causing some top NBC executives to sweat.

Sources told PageSix that if Holt's stats were ever to get the point that the network needed to make a change in the anchor's chair, NBC would be in a major bind.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: nbc; olympics
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HA HA!!! NBC's horrific coverage is a major reason I don't watch the Olympics anymore.
1 posted on 02/23/2018 5:40:37 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Wonder about ad revenue...losses, makegoods.


2 posted on 02/23/2018 5:41:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: C19fan

It used to be fun and patriotic

But with the whiny GenX’er thinking they all should get Gold medals for just participating, and spitting on our president, I have lost any interest I might have had.


3 posted on 02/23/2018 5:43:21 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

Lester the molester, lol - what a dolt.


4 posted on 02/23/2018 5:43:55 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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I don’t know, maybe it’s the Poofters and SJW’s trashing the POTUS or nauseating sucking up to the NORKS. Maybe.


5 posted on 02/23/2018 5:47:31 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: C19fan

Worst coverage of an Olympics I’ve ever seen. It is more or less coverage directed at the globalists. It’s hard to tell who the Americans are and the medal count is downplayed. I like Tariko though. He’s a class act.


6 posted on 02/23/2018 5:50:58 AM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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Americans just don’t want to watch two guys in spangled jumpsuits kissing each other. It is that simple.


7 posted on 02/23/2018 5:52:53 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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Except Mike Tirico is a serial sexual harasser.


8 posted on 02/23/2018 5:54:12 AM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: miss marmelstein

And they have exclusive rights until 2032. Suckers.


9 posted on 02/23/2018 5:54:35 AM PST by MGG
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To: miss marmelstein

Amen.


10 posted on 02/23/2018 5:55:00 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: MGG

It’s sad ‘cause I used to like the winter Olympics. But if they are going to trash their own beautiful country, I’m not watching.


11 posted on 02/23/2018 5:56:18 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: C19fan

It seems like many of the athletes and announcers are condescending, spoiled brats. At least the ones covered the most are. Maybe that is who we have become as a nation.


12 posted on 02/23/2018 5:56:36 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: miss marmelstein

When the woman who is the figure skating commentator is more “bitchy” than her partner the Johnny Wierdo guy, you know you can’t watch more than 10 minutes with the sound on.


13 posted on 02/23/2018 5:57:28 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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I resent NBC having that freak, Johnny Wierd in my face. They are preoccupied with homosexuality and I’m sick of it.


14 posted on 02/23/2018 5:59:23 AM PST by Wm F Buckley Republican
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To: C19fan

First time I’ve not watched the Olympics.


15 posted on 02/23/2018 5:59:43 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: miss marmelstein

Thou hast said it. I watched none of it.


16 posted on 02/23/2018 6:00:22 AM PST by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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“and even Lester Holt’s position at NBC Nightly News is reportedly in jeopardy.”

I am smiling from ear to ear.


17 posted on 02/23/2018 6:00:37 AM PST by Parley Baer
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This is really horrible. I used to love the ice skaters. I got totally into it during the Torvill & Dean years. To see it go decadent like everything else in America, is shameful.


18 posted on 02/23/2018 6:00:38 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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I don’t know, maybe it’s the Poofters and SJW’s trashing the POTUS or nauseating sucking up to the NORKS. Maybe.

I turned on once and it was an all queer suck up. Turned it back off.

19 posted on 02/23/2018 6:07:05 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: C19fan

They’re just now feeling “network tension”?! They’ve been losing viewers for years.


20 posted on 02/23/2018 6:08:31 AM PST by albie
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