Ratings Reference
Telecasts · Olympics

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

33,400,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2016-08-11

Published figures

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average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Primetime coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics earned an 18.9 final rating and 33.4 million viewers on NBC Tuesday night, down 13% in ratings and 14% in viewership from London in 2012 (21.8, 38.7M) and down 5% and 2%, respectively, from Beijing in 2008 (19.9, 34.0M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
33,400,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider