Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage elsewhere

Re:Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olym... by 1cvmask on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:31AM (#27059494)

I can’t remember the last Olympics I watched. Nor do I know anyone that watches it. Wonder if viewership is in decline around the world?

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Re:Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olym... by casefields on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:34AM (#27059511)

>The most recent summer games, held in Rio de Janiero in 2016, drew in an audience of 3.6 billion viewers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/287966/olympic-games-tv-...

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Re:Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olym... by dingaling on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:32AM (#27060910)

Those aren't individual viewers though, that's multiple-counting everyone who watched more than one event.

A bit like splitting the Superbowl into discrete ad-delimited sections and repeat-counting everyone who stayed tuned in.

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Re:Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olym... by asdff on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:42AM (#27059552)

Viewership in the US at least seems to be all over the place by year with no rhyme or reason really, other than maybe high GPD country hosted olympics seeming to have higher ratings. Table from wikipedia on TV viewership in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics_on_United_States_tele...

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