I wonder how they factor in on-demand and streaming? I haven't watched a minute of live broadcast, but the wife and I watch a couple hours of highlights at night once the kids go to bed. I don't watch the headline sports like basketball or soccer because you can watch those anytime. I love the obscure sports like rifle, pistol, swim, fencing, etc
(07-30-2021 08:50 AM)JDTulane Wrote: USWNT soccer advances to semis vs Canada after a 4-2 shootout win (2-2 score). Megan Rapinoe with the clincher... :)
Rapinoe was bad all game, but left no doubt with the PK. Naeher was brilliant in the PK situations.
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2021 08:59 AM by ODUCoach.)
I don't like Rapinoe, but admit she was a great player. No longer. Not sure if she is lazy or over the hill, but she is passive and slow. Hope they can pull off a couple more wins, but it's past time to get some new blood in there and rebuild. Rapinoe isn't the only one that doesn't have it anymore.
(07-30-2021 08:50 AM)JDTulane Wrote: USWNT soccer advances to semis vs Canada after a 4-2 shootout win (2-2 score). Megan Rapinoe with the clincher... :)
Rapinoe was bad all game, but left no doubt with the PK. Naeher was brilliant in the PK situations.
Winner has to play the under 13 boys champ from Texas
(07-30-2021 08:50 AM)JDTulane Wrote: USWNT soccer advances to semis vs Canada after a 4-2 shootout win (2-2 score). Megan Rapinoe with the clincher... :)
Rapinoe was bad all game, but left no doubt with the PK. Naeher was brilliant in the PK situations.
Winner has to play the under 13 boys champ from Texas
I still don't know if they would win. World class women soccer players are still no match for future men MLS players.
(07-29-2021 05:53 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: 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.
that's a cool story....
I'm aquatic by nature.....once I busted my chin on the springboard in competition at 8.... that was all she wrote for my arse after that hospital visit....
it takes a special person to control the gyro.....
however, it is sad to see her take that position in the middle of event....unfortunately, that will be her legacy...
(07-29-2021 05:53 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: 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.
that's a cool story....
I'm aquatic by nature.....once I busted my chin on the springboard in competition at 8.... that was all she wrote for my arse after that hospital visit....
it takes a special person to control the gyro.....
however, it is sad to see her take that position in the middle of event....unfortunately, that will be her legacy...
Yeah. She said frick this shite, I ain't going out a loser. I'd rather quit. I've seent it before.
I'll try to ruin your clothes with my blood before I quit fighting. I've done it.
My wife is the only one watching the Olympics but she's not as political as I am, as I suspect most women aren't. Conservative men are uber patriotic and get Ps'ed and feel slighted with the antics of those Libturds who are suffering playing for the US, pobrecitos, they are so oppressed. Screw them I hope all of those that disrespect our country while representing it lose big time so that they don't have their 15 seconds of fame disrespecting our country on that podium.
(07-29-2021 10:51 AM)bobdizole Wrote: I wonder how they factor in on-demand and streaming? I haven't watched a minute of live broadcast, but the wife and I watch a couple hours of highlights at night once the kids go to bed. I don't watch the headline sports like basketball or soccer because you can watch those anytime. I love the obscure sports like rifle, pistol, swim, fencing, etc
(07-29-2021 05:53 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: 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.
that's a cool story....
I'm aquatic by nature.....once I busted my chin on the springboard in competition at 8.... that was all she wrote for my arse after that hospital visit....
it takes a special person to control the gyro.....
however, it is sad to see her take that position in the middle of event....unfortunately, that will be her legacy...
Yeah. She said frick this shite, I ain't going out a loser. I'd rather quit. I've seent it before.
I'll try to ruin your clothes with my blood before I quit fighting. I've done it.
there’s no doubt….if it came to green street hooligan style…you, guns, and a few others would be ‘choice’ allies…
Quote:NBCUniversal on Thursday attributed record-low viewer ratings for the Tokyo Olympics to a host of factors, with chief executive officer Jeff Shell pleading “We had a little bit of bad luck… there was a drumbeat of negativity… we got moved a year… no spectators” as he sought to square the poor viewer response against network expectations.
Reuters reported Shell’s comments as it becomes increasingly evident in several major markets around the world the TV audience has collapsed since 2016.
Ratings data from the opening ceremony and first few nights of events indicate the Tokyo Games are currently the least watched Olympics in recent history across Europe and especially in the U.S. where viewer numbers are in freefall.
NBC’s four-hour long broadcast of the opening ceremony last Friday alone was the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years.
As Breitbart News reported, just 16.7 million viewers bothered to tune in.
That audience declined 36 percent from 2016, when 26.5 million people watched the Rio de Janeiro Games opener, and 58 percent from 2012, when 40.7 million people watched the London ceremony.
Keen Olympic watchers would have to go back to the opening ceremony for the 1988 Seoul Games, which attracted 22.7 million TV viewers, to see numbers like it.
In a call with analysts Shell, the chief executive officer of NBCUniversal – which paid $7.65 billion to extend its U.S. broadcast rights for the Olympics through 2032 – attributed the record-low ratings to several factors.
He said, “We had a little bit of bad luck, there was a drumbeat of negativity, we got moved a year, no spectators. And that has resulted in a little bit of linear ratings being probably less than we expected.”
It is not just U.S. viewers who are not waking up to the woke Olympics.
Reuters outlines over the first three days of the games, 769,000 viewers tuned in on one of France’s three public TV channels, not including Discovery Inc-owned broadcaster Eurosport, according to data from audience measurement company Mediametrie.
That viewership represents a 17.4 percent decline from the same period during 2016’s Rio Games and a sharp 74 percent drop from the 2012 London Games.
The BBC meanwhile reported a peak live audience of 2.3 million, and 944,000 online streams, for the opening ceremony on Friday, which started around lunchtime UK time.
That’s a 39.4 percent decline from the BBC’s peak live audience for the Rio opening ceremony, and a 61 percent decline from the BBC’s peak live audience for the 2008 Beijing opener.
Only two markets are reporting solid viewer numbers, according to Reuters.
In sports-mad Australia, 2.7 million viewers watched the opening ceremony nationally on Seven Network, the company said in a press release, up 20 percent from the TV audience for the Rio opener.
In the host country of Japan, where the majority of the public has opposed hosting the games during the coronavirus pandemic, the opening ceremony was watched by more than 70 million people and was the most watched event in the last 10 years, Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services, said on Monday.
Quote:Only 15 million tuned in for NBC’s primetime broadcast of Tokyo’s Woke Olympics, a stunning 48 percent drop from the 29 million who tuned in on this same day for the 2016 Olympics.
That 15 million number is all in, all platforms, including streaming.
Wednesday night’s 15 million viewers also represent, per Sports Media Watch (SMW), the “second-lowest on record for any night of the Summer Olympics.”
The previous low was the opening night of these very same Olympics.
Thus far, out of the five lowest-rated nights since 2000, Tokyo’s Woke Olympics has captured four of those slots and will almost certainly run the table before it’s over. Generally, the lowest-rated nights are late in the games, the final nights after all big events are over. So it wouldn’t surprise me to see the Woke Olympics run the table on all ten of the lowest-rated slots. It already occupies five of them.
Per SMW:
The Olympics is now averaging 17.2 million viewers in primetime, a full 11 million viewers short of the NBC-only average in 2016 (28.2M). While well below previous Olympics, the primetime average is only slightly behind the 17.4 million Sunday Night Football averaged across all NBC platforms last season. It also comfortably exceeds the viewership for the most recent NBA Finals (9.91M) and World Series (9.79M), though that usually goes without saying for the Summer Olympics.
As if to make things worse, on Thursday, the demented International Olympic Committee (IOC) shouted, “Transwomen are women,” which translates to, “Biological men will now be allowed to steal slots from women athletes!”
Yep, a 43-year-old guy is about to compete as a woman in the weightlifting competition.
As I’ve written before, the Olympics are no longer the Olympics. The Games are no longer about individual excellence but social engineering and boorish, unappealing athletes who preen their own virtue and choke under the spotlight.
Naturally, everyone is still whistling past the graveyard:
NBCUniversal on Thursday attributed record-low viewer ratings for the Tokyo Olympics to a host of factors, with chief executive officer Jeff Shell pleading “We had a little bit of bad luck… there was a drumbeat of negativity… we got moved a year… no spectators.”
Yeah, a 50 percent collapse in viewers is just a “little bit of bad luck.”
On what planet is losing half your customers “a little bit of bad luck?”
But when you’re pushing an extreme, far-left agenda, the whole country is built around you not having to face reality.
Simone Biles didn’t choke. She’s a hero because she has mental health issues.
A fat guy isn’t cheating to win a Gold Medal by posing as a woman. Instead, he’s a civil rights hero.
Megan Rapinoe isn’t a bitter, humorless, ungrateful crybaby. On the contrary, she’s all virtue and light.
It’s all a con job, it’s all gaslighting, it’s un-American, and the American people want no part of it.
(07-30-2021 12:46 PM)EverRespect Wrote: I don't like Rapinoe, but admit she was a great player. No longer. Not sure if she is lazy or over the hill, but she is passive and slow. Hope they can pull off a couple more wins, but it's past time to get some new blood in there and rebuild. Rapinoe isn't the only one that doesn't have it anymore.
If someone today were to say "they need some new guys on the women's soccer team" they'd actually be taken literally....
(07-30-2021 12:46 PM)EverRespect Wrote: I don't like Rapinoe, but admit she was a great player. No longer. Not sure if she is lazy or over the hill, but she is passive and slow. Hope they can pull off a couple more wins, but it's past time to get some new blood in there and rebuild. Rapinoe isn't the only one that doesn't have it anymore.
(07-30-2021 12:46 PM)EverRespect Wrote: I don't like Rapinoe, but admit she was a great player.
I thought it was a huge mistake with Pia Sundhage pulled her off with a one-goal lead over Japan with just a few minutes left in the 2011 Women's World Cup final. Sure enough, Japan tied it and ultimately won 3-1 on penalty kicks.
At that time, I thought she was very underrated as a player. We celebrated the big goal scorers as the heroes, but she did a lot of the unappreciated dirty work. Since then, I think she has become very overrated as a player, because she became the hero to the woke crowd.
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(07-30-2021 12:46 PM)EverRespect Wrote: I don't like Rapinoe, but admit she was a great player. No longer. Not sure if she is lazy or over the hill, but she is passive and slow. Hope they can pull off a couple more wins, but it's past time to get some new blood in there and rebuild. Rapinoe isn't the only one that doesn't have it anymore.
If someone today were to say "they need some new guys on the women's soccer team" they'd actually be taken literally....
Looks like Peter Boyle before make up in Young Frankenstein
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