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NBC Misses Olympics Heights In Monday Ratings

The headline of this New York Times piece on post-Olympics ratings says it all: "At NBC, the Thrill is Gone Along With the Audience." On Monday night, the network lost about 25 million viewers from the averages it had tracked during the Olympics. Fox won the night with two reality shows from chef Gordon Ramsey: "Hell's Kitchen" and "Hotel Hell."

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  1. Keith Bemis from Virtual Media Development, August 15, 2012 at 4:28 p.m.


    A Small Cap To The Head Of nbc sports chairman mark lazarus

    Corporate Values we always knew there was no such thing...just another buzz word. The nbc coverage of the
    2012 Olympics in London was not an "Event" events are live thats the difference between an event and a

    show..or program,a film or movie.The Olympics are an event not the tuning into time shifted taped programming
    on nbc thats just watching the telly.
    Let's remember...
    nbc thought so much of the Olympics they decided we shouldn't all share it at the same time, at the same
    moment as the billion others, let's cheer the fact we weren't all let in on the celebration when it happened as it
    was happening with collective AWE nbc went to the party and bought us back..a tape. The universal consciouness was sedated in the USA placed into a induced coma.
    The USA population dependent on others more fortunate in other country's for information. The live nbc
    Olympics on the net did not work and ..others from small country's some without the latest HD, some gathered
    around old tv's with bent attennas in far away villages, towns watching on small outdated non-digital tv's
    watching their global instant connection together watching as the world celebrated together in perfect.. real time.
    The IOC who banned people for not repesenting the true Olympic spirit, for their behavior, for not playing by the
    rules of the game and yet they sold the rights until 2020 for American broadcasting to a souless broadcasting
    hijacker who basked in the fact people were "driven" into time slots like sheep. The IOC should award the small
    golden medal of greed to nbc and then ban themselves from the Olympics. Keep in mind only two country's did
    not see the Olympics live,,they were the USA and North Korea..it appears we have more in common with the North Koreans then we may have thought. It's a sign of disgust for nbc but from now on they have earned from me and will be known and addressed in only small caps as it fits small people in small company's.

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