Ratings Reference
Telecasts · Olympics

Rio 2016 Olympics — Prime time

24,000,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2016-08-13

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 13.7 final rating and 24.0 million viewers on NBC Friday night, down 15% in ratings and 16% in viewership from London in 2012 (16.2, 28.5M) and down 11% and 8%, respectively, from Beijing in 2008 (15.4, 26.1M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
24,000,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider