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.
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And the vast majority of those viewers are trapped in airport terminals, nursing homes or loony bins! ;)
Haven’t watched a minute of it. No plans to. :)
Whatever the official color number is for the blue on our flag, it is not a blue that could ever be confused with black.
And that was despite all of the Communist countries, with the exception of Romania, boycotting.
Because China still believes in showing National Pride, something Western countries are no longer allowed to do.
Godzilla should have done it.
Now that would have been awesome!
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“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.”
I catch up on YouTube.
They have been an evergreen, constantly renewing programming source that attract huge numbers of viewers.
The Players and the Media have become arrogant, spoiled brats and people are tuning out
Plus, the quality of play has declined as the spoiled brats focus on off the field priorities and lifestyle pursuits.
Witness the NBA Olympic team of the NBA's best and brightest getting their butts kicked by other countries.
I will only watch what little my mentally challenged brother wants to watch but I’ve told him the minute I see someone turning his/her back on our flag or taking a knee I’m turning it off. It turns my stomach what this country has become and if I never see another newscast or sporting event I will be none the sadder. I snicker every time I hear that America has lost another group event.
And, 16.5 million are Airport TV monitors, train stations, bus terminals... and some woke dentist and clinic monitors.
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“Doc, I don’t mind the root canal, but can you turn off the TV?”
I’d forgotten, but of course you’re correct. And if I remember correctly I won several Big Macs in McDonald’s Olympic promotion!
But math is racist you know, so it is not taught to “journalists”. 1984 was in Los Angeles, and, I assume, there were lots of viewers. To get a lower number, you probably have to go back to 1980 when Dhimmi Carter had the US boycott the Moscow Olympics.
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