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Telecasts · Olympics

Tokyo 2020 Olympics — Prime time

Nielsen average audience: 8,450,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2021-08-07 Saturday
Networks
NBC
8,450,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2021-08-10

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / TV only · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
8,450,000
On Saturday, the final night of competition averaged 10.5 million (8.45M on NBC alone) — down 36% from 2016 (16.3M) and the second-smallest primetime Olympics audience on record. 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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