Ratings Reference
Telecasts · Olympics

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

26,400,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2016-08-12

Published figures

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average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Primetime coverage of the Rio Summer Olympics earned a 15.1 final rating and 26.4 million viewers on NBC Wednesday night, down 16% in ratings and 14% in viewership from London in 2012 (17.9, 30.8M) and down 10% and 4%, respectively, from Beijing in 2008 (16.7, 27.7M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
26,400,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider