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NBC Admits Genocide Games Major Ratings Bust: ‘For Us, It’s Been Difficult. There’s No Way Around This
Breitbart ^ | 02/12/22 | David NG

Posted on 02/12/2022 9:23:55 AM PST by Enlightened1

NBC has publicly addressed its low-rated broadcast of the Genocide Games, with a senior network executive describing the situation as “difficult” while blaming the pandemic for the low level of enthusiasm.

In a conference call with reporters Thursday,  NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua laid out a grim assessment of the past week.

“For us, it’s been difficult. There’s no way around this,” he said, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.

“The fact that we’ve been able to bring these Games to life during a pandemic with only a six-month window between the two [Olympics], the ratings are — of course we always want to have the ratings better — but the ratings for these Games, as I said, are about where we thought they’d be.”

He blamed COVID restrictions for the lack of “passion and excitement” that typically surrounds the Olympics.

“It’s no secret that athletes in masks, venues without spectators, so much of the passion and excitement, those great moments of Olympic athletes hugging their family and friends and spouses and partners, so much of that magic is just out of necessity not present.”

Bevacqua didn’t appear to address widespread public disgust at NBC for glorifying China and sidestepping the CCP’s numerous human rights atrocities.

As Breitbart News reported, TV ratings for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have reached catastrophic lows, with NBC on track for lowest-rated Winter Games in history.

NBC is using the Olympics to aggressively push the Peacock streaming service, which has failed to ignite much consumer enthusiasm since it was launched in 2020.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; cnbc; genocidegames; low; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; olympics; petebevacqua; ratings; uighur; uighurs; uyghur; uyghurs
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To: TexasGator

“ Rules with no logic”

You could search with an electron microscope and you wouldn’t find a single molecule of logic in anything in the past two years.


21 posted on 02/12/2022 9:45:42 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Defund Politicians )
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To: libertylover

Right, F the s bowl too.


22 posted on 02/12/2022 9:46:02 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Steely Tom

No one will get fired because there’s nothing else in the queue with better ratings. (Losing against reruns of old television shows is another story they’re not yet ready to face).


23 posted on 02/12/2022 9:46:16 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

The ads make it look like the Nigerian Broadcasting Network.


24 posted on 02/12/2022 9:47:35 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: libertylover

I have watched three games in three years, the Bengals playoff run. Being a fifty year suffering Bengal fan, I will make one more exception. Recording the game and skipping all the network, commercial and half time racist BS will make the coverage nearly sufferable.


25 posted on 02/12/2022 9:48:41 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: TexasGator

Yup—the mask Alice in Wonderland rules are obedience tests for future concentration camp residents.


26 posted on 02/12/2022 9:49:04 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Huskrrrr

“One World, One Dream.”

The rule of opposites tells you what they really have planned:

“One World, One Nightmare”


27 posted on 02/12/2022 9:50:07 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Enlightened1

>>> He blamed COVID restrictions <<<

That’s one step below blaming global warming.


28 posted on 02/12/2022 9:54:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Enlightened1

The last sentence is the key. Getting people to buy the streaming service from ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN, AMC, Discovery, Disney, HBO, Showtime, etc. is not going to be an easy sell. We already pay enough for our combined streaming or cable services. Spending another hundred dollars a month is too much to ask at this point. Most middle class households are already paying well over $100 a month for Internet and TV.

NBC has also alienated itself from half of the American population because of its politics. I wouldn’t give most of the mainstream media an extra penny. I suspect I’m not alone.


29 posted on 02/12/2022 9:55:23 AM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Steely Tom

“If nobody wants to come to the ball game, how are you going to stop them?” — Yogi Berra.


30 posted on 02/12/2022 9:57:55 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I have to wear a mask into the dentist’s office. Inside a a bunch of non-masked people with mouths wide open.


31 posted on 02/12/2022 10:00:30 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Enlightened1

That’s a shame for the kids who have worked so hard to compete, but I haven’t watched them at all. Commies have to politicize everything they touch.


32 posted on 02/12/2022 10:00:55 AM PST by Spok
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Bevacqua didn’t appear to address widespread public disgust at NBC for glorifying China and sidestepping the CCP’s numerous human rights atrocities... TV ratings for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have reached catastrophic lows, with NBC on track for lowest-rated Winter Games in history. NBC is using the Olympics to aggressively push the Peacock streaming service, which has failed to ignite much consumer enthusiasm since it was launched in 2020.
Get woke, go broke, and good riddance. The inherent hypocrisy of wokeness should result in actual genocide. The left won't rest until it rests in peace.

33 posted on 02/12/2022 10:01:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Enlightened1

NBC has publicly addressed its low-rated broadcast of the Genocide Games, with a senior network executive describing the situation as “difficult” while blaming the pandemic for the low level of enthusiasm.

Compare the Super Bowl ratings (ugh) tomorrow to the Olympic Games.
Should provide a decent monitor.


34 posted on 02/12/2022 10:02:08 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Enlightened1
magic is just out of necessity not present

Nope Nothing necessary about it. Just chicoms being chicoms.

35 posted on 02/12/2022 10:02:15 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Enlightened1

Sheesh. I dumped TV in 1997. My only exposure to the “big three” is through youtube videos and free streaming off Amazon Prime. I literally had never heard of this show.


36 posted on 02/12/2022 10:02:57 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: cuban leaf

I had to ask Google if the Olympics had started yet.


37 posted on 02/12/2022 10:10:57 AM PST by conejo99
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To: Enlightened1

If only they could’ve paid airports to show the games, then their numbers would’ve looked better. Except cnn wouldn’t given up their main source of viewers.


38 posted on 02/12/2022 10:15:14 AM PST by robel
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To: Enlightened1

I own 2 TVs and they have been unplugged since Obama.


39 posted on 02/12/2022 10:16:24 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Enlightened1

I’m enjoying the games. Watching womens now. Watched the Czechs beat the Dopers in hockey earlier and waiting for US hockey to start.


40 posted on 02/12/2022 10:17:42 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (If you are vaccinated, you cannot get COVID from someone who is not vaccinated. Lighted up Karen!)
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