Ratings Reference

Tokyo 2020 Olympics — Closing Ceremony

Nielsen average audience: 8,810,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2021-08-08 Sunday
Networks
NBC
8,810,000
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
8,810,000
Sunday's Closing Ceremony averaged just 9.0 million viewers (8.81M on NBC alone), marking the 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