Ratings Reference

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

Nielsen average audience: 29,800,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2016-08-07 Sunday
Networks
NBC
29,800,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2016-08-08

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
29,800,000
Primetime coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics earned a 16.1 final rating and 29.8 million viewers on NBC Sunday night … Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider