The Olympics TV ratings are world-record holders, too - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 Aug 08
  

  Frederic Martin
  • Sunday's prime-time broadcast recorded a 17.9 Nielsen rating and 31 share, up 16 percent from 15.4/26 for the first Sunday in Athens (the site of the 2004 Games), with an average audience of 31.7 million viewers and 81 million total viewers. Adding its cable outlets, NBC's Sunday audience for the Olympics hit 107 million.
  • The three-day Nielsen average of 17.0/30 is the best for a non-U.S. Olympics since 1976, up from 14.1/26 for the first three days in Athens, and average viewership is 30.4 million, up from 24 million in Athens.
  • And the fuel for Sunday's numbers, NBC play-by-play announcer Dan Hicks said Sunday night, was Lezak's anchor leg in the men's 400-meter freestyle relay that nipped the French at the wall and preserved Michael Phelps' drive for eight gold medals.
  • Visitors to NBCOlympics.com viewed 1.1 million streams of the relay, and total page views Sunday hit 66.7 million with 5.1 million unique users and more than 3.4 million total video streams.

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