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Olympics Sticks Near 2018 Viewership Low As 19.3M Watch On NBC
Deadline.com ^ | Feb 16, 2018 | Dominic Patten

Posted on 02/17/2018 9:46:27 AM PST by 11th_VA

Heading into tonight’s primetime coverage with Lindsey Vonn’s XXIII Winter Games debut and men’s figure skating, NBC could sure use a win – at least when it comes to viewership.

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Putting up NBC 2018 against the broadcast-only coverage of February 13, 2014’s XXII Winter Games and things start to really sting. Last night’s primetime featuring Mikaela Shiffrin and Nathan Chen in PyeongChang dropped a hard 29% in sets of eyeballs.

In smaller numbers but still significant for NBCUniversal, NBCSN had its best night of the 2018 Games so far with 2.75 million tuning in.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nbc; olympics; television
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To: Joe Boucher

NBC really does blow!
Every. single. time. we have turned it on, there has been figure skating or interviews of figure skaters.

I want to see skiing and snowboarding, DAMMIT!!!


41 posted on 02/18/2018 9:48:54 AM PST by a real Sheila (Love my golden retrievers!)
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To: a real Sheila

And Biathlon with guns!

Every Winter Olympic sport should have shooting.

Nail a Triple Lutz? I’m not impressed. You want to impress me, nail a Triple Lutz while shooting at targets....now THAT would impress me.


42 posted on 02/18/2018 9:50:44 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Artemis Webb

+1

It lacks something. I can’t even say what.


43 posted on 02/18/2018 9:51:38 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dfwgator

You want to impress me, nail a Triple Lutz while shooting at targets....now THAT would impress me.”

LAUGHING! SO HARD!


44 posted on 02/18/2018 10:39:56 AM PST by a real Sheila (Love my golden retrievers!)
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To: a real Sheila

A real Sheila from Georgia?
Yeah sure.
How come i envision some over weight bald guy with a beer, needing a shave?

Sorry,
Just kidding.


45 posted on 02/18/2018 12:37:10 PM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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