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33-Year Low: U.S. Viewer Numbers Collapse for Woke Tokyo Olympics Opening
Breitbart ^ | 07/25/21 | Simon Kent

Posted on 07/25/2021 9:29:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Empty seats, zero atmosphere, diminished team numbers, local protests and a world distracted by coronavirus all combined to deliver just 16.7 million viewers for NBC’s four-hour long broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday. It was the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years.

Keen Olympic watchers would have to go back to the opening ceremony for the 1988 Seoul Games, which attracted 22.7 million TV viewers, to see numbers like it.

It was also lower than the 1992 Barcelona Games, when 21.6 million people tuned in, according to Nielsen data supplied to Reuters, although some critics could see what lay ahead before one athlete had entered the arena for the march past.

As Breitbart News reported, corporate media has been quick to trash the opener as a somber production performed to a “sea of empty seats,” a striking departure from the vibrancy and life that featured Olympics’ past.

According to the New York Times, the performances themselves aimed to “divert the message of the Games away from the pandemic and scandals and toward the more anodyne themes of peace and global harmony.”

“But that messaging may have little resonance with the Japanese public, as coronavirus infections in Tokyo have risen to a six-month high and the domestic vaccine rollout has proceeded slowly,” the Times reported.

During quieter moments in the show however, “protesters outside the stadium could be heard yelling ‘Stop the Olympics” through bullhorns,’” the paper reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: low; olympics; opening; viewers; wokesports
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1 posted on 07/25/2021 9:29:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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And of course they had to shoe-horn in the BLM aspect with the lighting of the Flame.


2 posted on 07/25/2021 9:30:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Enlightened1

A Typhoon this week might finish ‘em (the olympocks) off.


3 posted on 07/25/2021 9:33:04 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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At 16.7 millions, lowest in 33 years when in 1988 they had 22.7 million. Lowest? Maybe my math is wrong, but 16.7 million is a *lot* smaller than 22.7 million, especially when you consider the population increase in the past 33 years. What was 1984 like?


4 posted on 07/25/2021 9:34:55 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Enlightened1

Anodyne themes of peace and global harmony.

New York Times plays with new crack pipe.


5 posted on 07/25/2021 9:35:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Enlightened1

Japanese do not like to “lose face”! Not at all!


6 posted on 07/25/2021 9:35:42 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: C210N

A Typhoon or several COVID-19 positive test results. Many in Japan are itching to get this over with, even with the loss of revenue.


7 posted on 07/25/2021 9:35:49 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Enlightened1

The Tokyo Olympics have been on again and off again for a year or more, which tends to kill the anticipatory excitement, plus no live audience participation. Not to mention the wokeness factor by some of the competitors.


8 posted on 07/25/2021 9:37:39 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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9 posted on 07/25/2021 9:39:03 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: smokingfrog

Wokyo Olympics.


10 posted on 07/25/2021 9:41:02 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Enlightened1

looks like if the athletes aren’t proud enough to rep the country that sent them over there to win & keep mailing it in, then no one should be surprised that the fans don’t want to watch their protests & half a$$ed performances

I haven’t tuned in & won’t even watch beach volley ball.


11 posted on 07/25/2021 9:41:38 AM PDT by thinden ( )
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16.7 million viewers huh?
The Euro 2020 finals between England and Italy coupla weeks ago had TV ratings of nearly million, out of a British population of less than 70 million.
12 posted on 07/25/2021 9:42:53 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To be fair, there’s a big reason why the Tokyo Olympics are drawing the lowest TV ratings in the U.S. since the Seoul Olympics. East Asia is so far away that the time zone difference makes it impossible to broadcast any meaningful live events during prime TV viewing times in North America.


13 posted on 07/25/2021 9:44:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Enlightened1

SJW scum


14 posted on 07/25/2021 9:46:38 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Alberta's Child

Maybe, but drawing 26% less of the TV audience when you have 36% more people compare to 1988 is pretty awful.


15 posted on 07/25/2021 9:46:52 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: Enlightened1

Disappoints me that it was that large.


16 posted on 07/25/2021 9:46:57 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Enlightened1

NBC is evil to the core and I wouldn’t give them my time even if they were broadcasting the second coming. Not that I would have to of course.


17 posted on 07/25/2021 9:48:33 AM PDT by xp38
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To: sjmjax

Much like polls now, the numbers may be exaggerated or skewed on purpose.


18 posted on 07/25/2021 9:48:47 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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16.7 million viewers huh?

And, 16.5 million are Airport TV monitors, train stations, bus terminals... and some woke dentist and clinic monitors.

19 posted on 07/25/2021 9:48:51 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: Enlightened1

Well, let’s see. With “wokeness” infecting so many Western sports, many Americans and Europeans are simply tired of it all. And the leftist tv coverage makes a point of reminding viewers of that wokeness every chance it can.

Then you’ve got all the theater regarding coronavirus and the games. Why not allow at least some spectators, even if just vaccinated Japanese? Why pretend that the young athletes themselves are in much danger? Why insist on a somber opening ceremony with nonsense like Imagine instead of the extraordinarily creative and Japanese one they had planned?

Lots of people - from both the West and the East - are to blame for these ratings.


20 posted on 07/25/2021 9:49:01 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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