Posted on 02/06/2022 2:04:05 PM PST by Rummyfan
Despite the blizzard of Chinese PR, CCP officals cannot snow potential viewers and have them forget all the damage that nation has done in the past two years.
This past week has been filled with karmic news (CNN’s Jeff Zucker resigning, Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension, Meta/Facebook shares plummeting).
It’s as if someone baked a schadenfreude cake and is now dishing it out. And the frosting on that confection is this: The televised Winter Olympics games in Beijing, China, are a ratings bust.
Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics averaged 7.25 million viewers on NBC, marking the smallest primetime Olympic audience ever on the network. The previous low was 8.5 million for the final night of competition at last year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics.
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The California Democrat reiterated Friday that American athletes should keep any unkind word about China’s repressive Communist government to themselves, repeating an admonition from the previous day.
If she truly fears for their safety, we should not have sent a team. “As I wish the athletes well, I do not encourage them to speak out against the Chinese government there because I fear for their safety if they do,” Pelosi said Friday, hours after the opening ceremony. “[To] remove all doubt about why I said they shouldn’t speak out, it’s because I fear for their safety.”
If she truly fears for their safety, we should not have sent the team.
Oh, there's still a Superbowl?
I would not watch any part of these Olypics if you paid me to. Literally.
I did watch a replay of the ex-American polishing the ice with her butt. That’s it.
And their ain't no Leni Riefenstahl this time around.
LOL....we need Sharpie Eyebrows PeLOUSY sitting on Xi’s other knee.
Actually with billions worldwide I imagine the Chinese do not give 3 hoots about American ratings.
But I bet NBC cares.
I hear the Chinese are doing very well in the body harvesting competitions.
Cardboard Games
Cardboard Sports
"Aw, man, have a heart..."
"Soon, very soon. Also a liver, couple kidneys..."
Yeah, but two hours later they would need another skater.
Are they televising in other countries?
Hurry up. Chop Chop!
My wife is a former US national team member (albeit the summer games) and even she has said she won’t watch.
And she’s never missed an Olympics…
My wife and I have been avid Olympics fans our entire lives. But, we just aren’t interested in the ChiCom Games. We have been binge watching Jack Reacher which interested us far more.
Sakoku ("locked country") was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 214 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868)
Seems China may be doing the same. But after covid, they could adjust the policy to limit decadent western influence. It would benefit the CCP to do that.
“Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics averaged 7.25 million viewers on NBC, marking the smallest primetime Olympic audience ever on the network,” reports Sports Media Watch. “The previous low was 8.5 million for the final night of competition at last year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics.”That’s a 55 percent drop from four years ago when 16 million tuned into the opening night coverage of the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.
That’s also down a whopping 64 percent from the 2014 Summer Games.
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