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Telecasts · Olympics

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

Nielsen average audience: 20,600,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2016-08-06 Saturday
Networks
NBC
20,600,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2016-08-08

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average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
20,600,000
Primetime coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics earned an 11.4 final rating and 20.6 million viewers on NBC Saturday night … Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

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