Summer Olympics 2016: Rio

Dammit, didn't see this.

 

Also, spelling is proving difficult.

 

Soap dispenser broken, urinating, possible damage to bathroom door. That's as much as I know.

 

I ate at a restaurant in Mexico, naturally had a couple of Sol beers, when it was time to urinate, the [itch bay] made me pay a dollar. So, naturally I pissed 6 inches to the right of the toilet. I'm not terribly proud of it now, but eff that [itch bay] for feeding me all that beer knowing she was going to charge me to piss.

 

Welp, looks like Rio was a total bomb, abject failure, and stuff like that...

http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/2...s-the-most-successful-media-event-in-history/

 

I assume you didn't read that.

 

Down 10% from London despite a better team and better time zone. I'm surprised because I really enjoyed it this year.

 

Nope. Did I miss the part about it being the most successful media event history?

 

But what about the bath? Did they take a bath?

 

They took a bath alright.

In cash.

 

They made bank on just gas station bathroom repairs alone.

 

I'm not saying it's an abject failure but there's some bad info in there.

 

From Bloomberg:

Prime-time broadcast viewership has been down about 17 percent compared to the London games four years ago. And in the 18-to-49-year-old age group coveted by advertisers, it’s been even worse. That audience has been 25 percent smaller, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

 

You're citing Bloomberg? Will you cite them about Trump?

 

Where'd that come from?

 

Period.

 

Did you read it?

Maybe it occurred to you that they paid more but didn't beat London. That help?

 

It is a memo from NBC; they are going to try and put the best spin on it.

 

According to a number of analysts, primetime viewership for Rio was down as much as 17% compared to the previous Summer Games in London in 2012. Most worrying for NBC, however, is the fact that there’s an even larger gap in the viewership in the coveted 18-to-49 age group. According to some estimates, that audience has been as much as 30% smaller than for previous games.

The network’s numbers have been so weak that it has been compensating media buyers for under-delivering on its ratings promises by as much as 15% with what are called “make good” payments, or free offers of equivalent advertising spots.

Some of that weakness can also be detected by reading between the lines of the network’s press releases. For example, NBC takes pains to note that Rio was “the first in U.S. media history with live primetime coverage on channels other than the primary broadcast network,” and that it was also the first time that coverage has been streamed simultaneously across a variety of digital platforms.

In other words, don’t blame us if the numbers don’t compare well to previous Olympics. It’s a little like Usain Bolt arguing that the track has changed since the last time he won a medal.

http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/nbc-ratings-rio/

 

Exactly