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Telecasts · Olympics

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

Nielsen average audience: 26,400,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2016-08-10 Wednesday
Networks
NBC
26,400,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2016-08-12

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
26,400,000
Primetime coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics earned a 15.1 final rating and 26.4 million viewers on NBC Wednesday 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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