American Millennials are weak and entitled. That is all. Hope we don't need them for our protection any time soon. We are doomed.

(07-28-2021 07:48 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  American Millennials are weak and entitled. That is all. Hope we don't need them for our protection any time soon. We are doomed.

Get Woke, Go Broke?: NBC Primetime Olympic Ratings ‘Spiral Downward’ Nearly 50% From 2016 Causing ‘Advertiser Anxiety’

Quote:Ratings for NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games “has continued to spiral downward” according to Fox News, dropping nearly 50% from the network’s coverage of the 2016 Rio Games. Olympic viewership is down nearly 40% overall across the entire NBC family of networks sharing broadcast duties.

Analysts suggest that the “get woke, go broke” effect may be partly to blame, but the drop is so significant that the network is now struggling with “advertiser anxiety,” allaying corporate fears that the millions spent on commercials and sponsorships during Olympic coverage may not have been worth it.

Monday’s primetime NBC telecast “shed 53 percent of viewers from coverage of the first weeknight primetime during the 2012 London Olympics and declines were even larger among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 18-49.”

NBC had hoped that ratings would pick up after the Olympic Opening Ceremony, which saw a 33% drop in viewership from 2016. Unfortunately, a turnaround has not materialized. Instead, the network is “averaging 14.7 million viewers” in primetime, representing an overall “49 percent drop compared to the equivalent night from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games.”

“NBC averaged 12.6 million viewers on Saturday night, a 39 percent drop compared to the first Saturday of the 2016 Olympics and a 56 percent drop compared to the 2012 London games,” Fox News added. “Now that a weeknight has also shed significant viewership from recent Olympics, too, NBC could start to panic if things don’t pick up in a hurry.”

The network had, according to Variety, counted on major stars like Team USA gymnast Simone Biles to help spur nightly ratings, but Biles pulled out of the women’s team event on Tuesday, citing issues, and Team USA now says she is not expected to compete in the women’s all-around competition on Thursday, leaving little in NBC’s primetime lineup to draw viewers — and that’s leaving advertisers very nervous.

“Traditional TV viewing for the Summer Games has declined noticeably, and, a decision by popular gymnast Simone Biles to take herself out of the team competition early Tuesday has spurred advertiser anxiety, according to executives familiar with negotiations between NBC and sponsors,” Variety reported Wednesday. One media buying executive told the outlet that the lackluster ratings are “clearly are not what NBC, our agency or our clients were looking for,” and advertisers are demanding “make goods,” or free advertising elsewhere to make up for the lost audience.

As the Daily Wire previously reported, anticipation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was at a comparative low, with many viewers citing a newfound political focus among the Team USA athletes as part of the reason they lacked any excitement for the Games. Republicans, particularly were unenthusiastic, likely because many of the athletes planned to protest for progressive causes.

The message is getting to Team USA’s athletes. After the U.S. Women’s soccer team took a knee in protest of racial inequality in its Olympic opener against Sweden, the other U.S. squad expected to stage a political demonstration — the women’s basketball team — subtly announced that they had no plans to push a social justice message during their own Olympic appearances.

It could be too little too late, however, to save NBC’s viewership.

Quote:The message is getting to Team USA’s athletes. After the U.S. Women’s soccer team took a knee in protest of racial inequality in its Olympic opener against Sweden, the other U.S. squad expected to stage a political demonstration — the women’s basketball team — subtly announced that they had no plans to push a social justice message during their own Olympic appearances.

Wow.. maybe some things are getting through to some people? Go Woke, Go Broke... lose your endorsements, lose your cash flow!

Sounds like Biles has/had spatial orientation issues...heard it described as vertigo while in the air.

The usual keyboard warriors will be disappointed or say she "should've battled through", I'm sure.

(07-28-2021 01:08 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  Sounds like Biles has/had spatial orientation issues...heard it described as vertigo while in the air.

The usual keyboard warriors will be disappointed or say she "should've battled through", I'm sure.

Don't know what happened to her? I hope she did not succumb to pressure.

She has been through enough battles in that space to be able to fight adversity. If she could not, she has earned the right to say she couldn't pull it together.

(07-28-2021 01:08 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  Sounds like Biles has/had spatial orientation issues...heard it described as vertigo while in the air.

The usual keyboard warriors will be disappointed or say she "should've battled through", I'm sure.

nah, it's just people who don't watch the sport trying to make political points. Everyone bagging on her has watched as much gymnastics as I have. About 15 minutes or less.

(07-28-2021 01:08 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  Sounds like Biles has/had spatial orientation issues...heard it described as vertigo while in the air.

The usual keyboard warriors will be disappointed or say she "should've battled through", I'm sure.

If that's the case then it wasn't "mental issues". It was a bonafide vertigo condition. Totally changes the conversation. Hard to do all that stuff if your head is spinning.

‘Woke’ Coca-Cola, Other Businesses Refuse To Reconsider Sponsorship Of 2022 Beijing Olympics

Quote:A bipartisan group of lawmakers held a hearing about American companies’ decisions to sponsor the 2022 Beijing Olympics.

Due to human rights abuses from the Chinese Communist Party — such as the genocide of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province and the suppression of civil liberties in Hong Kong — many officials are debating the role of American diplomats and athletes in the upcoming Winter Games, which are slated to begin in seven months.

On Tuesday, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China hosted a hearing on corporate sponsorship of the Olympics. Lawmakers expressed concern to executives from Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Intel, Procter & Gamble, and Visa over their decisions to provide millions in funding to the Games.

For instance, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said in his opening statement:

As the world watches the Olympics currently unfolding in Japan, this Commission remains deeply disturbed that in less than seven months another Olympic Games are scheduled to begin in the shadow of some of the world’s most egregious human rights abuses. The Olympic Games exist to uplift the human spirit. Yet, unless something dramatically changes, in a few months’ time the Games will be held in a country that continues to mercilessly crush the human spirit, in Xinjiang, in Hong Kong, and in Tibet; among human rights activists and civil society; and anywhere where defenders of freedom stand up to the Chinese government’s bullying.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) prompted the companies to draw attention to Chinese human rights abuses:

Congress and the Executive Branch are acting because, when it comes to the Chinese government committing atrocities, we do not accept business as usual. Today we ask whether you will treat the Beijing Olympic as business as usual.

As U.S-based Olympic sponsors, your companies represent America on the world stage. We ask whether you are willing to stand up for universal values and use your leverage against genocide and crimes against humanity.

Despite lawmakers’ admonitions, the executives refrained from voicing concern over the Chinese Communist Party’s policies and reaffirmed their decisions to support the Games. In his opening statement, for example, Coca-Cola global vice president for human rights Paul Lalli brushed off the suggestion that his firm could meaningfully impact the Games:

As a sponsor of global sporting events, our influence is limited. In the case of the Olympics, for instance, The Coca-Cola Company is one of 14 companies in The Olympic Partners program. Those 14 companies together provide less than a fifth of the IOC’s funding. By contrast, broadcasters contribute almost 75 percent. That governments are always intimately involved in bidding for and hosting any event only heightens the challenge.

Despite repeatedly emphasizing Coca-Cola’s commitment to human rights, the statement made no specific mention of the terms “Beijing,” “Uyghur,” “Xinjiang,” “Hong Kong,” or even “China,” apart from one mention of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

CNN Business reported that other business leaders likewise refused to reconsider their sponsorship of the Beijing Games:

During the hearing Rep. Christopher Smith asked representatives from the five companies how they could “reconcile their ostensible commitment to human rights with subsidizing an Olympics held in a country which is actively committing human rights abuses up to and including genocide.” He asked the executives whether the Games should be relocated.

“As long as governments are allowing the athletes to attend the games, we as Visa will be there to support or sponsor them,” said Andrea Fairchild, Visa’s senior vice president of Global Sponsorship Strategy.

David Holyoke, head of Airbnb’s Olympics and Paralympics Partnership, said that the company’s partnership with the International Olympic Committee is “not focused on Beijing or any other single games.”

And Intel executive vice president and general counsel Steven Rodgers said that the company has “not stated a position on the location of the games.”

On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled Lalli over his company’s willingness to turn a blind eye to abuses in China — which is home to the world’s second-largest consumer economy — while blasting American officials for purported voter suppression.

“I’ve heard your talking points,” said Cotton. “And I’m tired of hearing them, Mr. Lalli. I’m asking you a simple question. Why is it that Coca-Cola will opine on Georgia’s election laws, but not on the genocide Olympics?”

“Georgia is our home, it’s where many of our employees live and work,” responded Lalli. “And we are most engaged on public policy issues here in the US.”

“I think the answer is, you are afraid of the Chinese Communist Party, you’re afraid of what they will do to your company, if you say a single word, like for instance, saying that both the Biden and the Trump administration are correct when they say that China is committing a genocide against its own,” retorted Cotton.

Yea because despite the low ratings, its still 16 million eyeballs a night.

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All I know about Simone Biles is that I took my rugby team to dinner after a match about 5 years ago, and she came in to eat. The team were all excited to meet her, and she was as nice and friendly as it is probably humanly possible to be. I came away with the distinct impression that she was a delightful young lady.

Whatever her current problems, she is in my thoughts and prayers.

(07-28-2021 07:34 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Again, people actually watch and give a flip about the olympics? The best America can do is a purple haired soccer dyke, a team full of NBA kneelers and a quitter gymnast that all lose?

Maybe if we talked about the winners there would be more interest. According to Google we have 13 gold medals and lead in total medals. Haven’t seen a single story about any of those other than the gymnastics silver due to the controversy. Gotta be some good American stories in there the media is choosing not to give any attention to.


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Never been much on the olympics.

(07-29-2021 06:04 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 07:34 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Again, people actually watch and give a flip about the olympics? The best America can do is a purple haired soccer dyke, a team full of NBA kneelers and a quitter gymnast that all lose?

Maybe if we talked about the winners there would be more interest. According to Google we have 13 gold medals and lead in total medals. Haven’t seen a single story about any of those other than the gymnastics silver due to the controversy. Gotta be some good American stories in there the media is choosing not to give any attention to.


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Admittedly, in my house we watch the Games nonstop. I guess we're in the minority, but I'm ok with that.

Google Lydia Jacoby and check out her story. Teenage swimmer from Alaska won gold, and her hometown went into full on freak out mode. It was awesome.

(07-29-2021 06:04 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 07:34 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Again, people actually watch and give a flip about the olympics? The best America can do is a purple haired soccer dyke, a team full of NBA kneelers and a quitter gymnast that all lose?

Maybe if we talked about the winners there would be more interest. According to Google we have 13 gold medals and lead in total medals. Haven’t seen a single story about any of those other than the gymnastics silver due to the controversy. Gotta be some good American stories in there the media is choosing not to give any attention to.


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REally? the swimmer from Alaska has been all over the news here. Plus we have two local boys from the JAX area on the men's swimming team.

But, you are correct, they will hammer this gymnastic story unless she withdraws from the individual events and goes home.

(07-29-2021 07:32 AM)ODUCoach Wrote:  

(07-29-2021 06:04 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 07:34 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Again, people actually watch and give a flip about the olympics? The best America can do is a purple haired soccer dyke, a team full of NBA kneelers and a quitter gymnast that all lose?

Maybe if we talked about the winners there would be more interest. According to Google we have 13 gold medals and lead in total medals. Haven’t seen a single story about any of those other than the gymnastics silver due to the controversy. Gotta be some good American stories in there the media is choosing not to give any attention to.


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Admittedly, in my house we watch the Games nonstop. I guess we're in the minority, but I'm ok with that.

Google Lydia Jacoby and check out her story. Teenage swimmer from Alaska won gold, and her hometown went into full on freak out mode. It was awesome.

I'd honestly be watching more if I didn't have a 3 and 5 year old taking over the TVs with childrens' YouTube shows. We have it on all day in the office so I watch for a few minutes here and there.

Link

Quote:Anastasija Zolotic is considered one of the top rising stars in taekwondo, and she showed the world why Sunday by winning Olympic gold.

Competing in her first-ever Olympics, the Largo, Florida, native defeated Tatiana Minina of ROC to win the women's 57 kg taekwondo final. Minina, over five years older than Zolotic, is a two-time silver medalist at the World Taekwondo Championships and a three-time gold medalist at the European Taekwondo Championships.

Auburn girl won the gymnastics gold

not a choker

Quote:NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics continued to spiral downward on Monday, averaging 14.7 million viewers for a 49% drop compared to the equivalent night from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Monday’s telecast also shed 53% of viewers from coverage of the first weeknight primetime during the 2012 London Olympics and declines were even larger among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 18-49.

Quote:Variety senior TV editor Brian Steinberg wrote that the drop has spurred "advertiser anxiety" which hasn’t been eased by the news that legendary American gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from team competition and fan favorite Naomi Osaka was eliminated from tennis medal competition.

Steinberg quoted a media buying executive who said the early viewership "clearly are not what NBC, our agency or our clients were looking for" from costly investment.

"This executive said early viewership trends were ‘disappointing,’" Steinberg wrote.

The opening ceremony, delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, drew 16.7 million viewers for NBC on Friday, the smallest audience for the network broadcast since the 1988 Seoul Games. NBC presumably hoped its multi-billion dollar investment would pick up as the Games proceeded, but primetime coverage on Saturday and Sunday also was disappointing.

NBC averaged 12.6 million viewers on Saturday night, a 39% drop compared to the first Saturday of the 2016 Olympics and a 56% drop compared to the 2012 London Games. Now that a weeknight has also shed significant viewership from recent Olympics, too, NBC could start to panic if things don’t pick up in a hurry.

"The size of the declines from the previous Rio Olympics have unnerved advertisers, who are believed to have invested more than $1.2 billion in the sports extravaganza," Steinberg wrote. "Little surprise, then, that NBCU and several media agencies have entered into discussions for ‘make goods,’ or ad inventory that is given to sponsors when a program fails to meet its original viewership guarantees."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-olympi...er-anxiety

Wonder how much of that ratings decline is due to this? I suspect it is the driving force and in a way, it is sad. There are many athletes in the non "power sports" (most glamorized and publicized) who have worked their tails off to get to the Olympics who have not engaged in this political wokeness stuff and will not get seen or recognized for their performances and achievements because so many of us have just ignored the Olympics.

I used to watch a lot of the Olympics and always looked forward to it. I have not watched any this year and don't miss it at all.

Quote:When I was a kid watching the Olympics, if one of our athletes or teams lost to the Soviet Union or any other country, it annoyed me, patriotically. There was a strong sense of being represented by these American athletes. Now, I feel completely detached.

I never thought that I would ever root against an American team or athlete in international play because of my patriotic upbringing. But since today’s athletes in all sports have decided that anti-American protests during or before play or on the podium afterwards will be the norm now, they don’t represent me anymore. In fact, it feels a little good inside to see these guys lose.

The pro-leagues and athletes have achieved the impossible. They managed to turn fans who would watch in big numbers for the USA in a tiddlywinks match to have them root against their own country. This is just one consequence of the radical Left’s imprint on our society.

Quote:Sad, but I anticipated this, and, I am sorry to say, don’t feel bad about it since it is a self-inflicted outcome. I think my perspective is shared by many in our country.

Politics is more on display than sportsmanship, and it disgusts me. All of this can be traced back to socialism infiltrating our schools and sports coverage on television. I haven’t watched one second of the Olympics on television, and won’t be, and I was a track and field athlete in high school and college.

Too much activism, too much being a victim, too much playing the race card, too much individualism, not enough basketball, not enough team, not enough effort, not enough representing the country = loss. The team is making a statement alright, but their arrogance, privilege, and entitlement keep them from seeing the true message they are sending.

Quote:It pains me to say this, but I am not the only one that feels this way. Millions would agree that it would be good for Team USA men’s and women’s basketball not to make the podium. Throw in the women’s soccer team as well; we’re tired of their whining. They’ve achieved more in life in the USA than they would have anywhere else on the planet, yet they are still apparently ‘oppressed’. The USA is the greatest country to exist. No country’s history is perfect.

I’m an American, and I love my country, but this has been the first time that I have rooted against an American team. Take politics out of sports, and I can return to being a fan. Until then, I hope they lose.

https://infowarsarmy.com/posts/wayne-dup...they-lose/