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Let OUR Games Begin... The 2010 Vancouver Olympics Thread (pg. 67)
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
(ie: luge, skijumping, cross-country, etc....not something you see your neighbor doing everyday LOL) |
and pole-vaulting is? |
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| Stilez |
Some stats Courtesy of NBC & Neilson Ratings:
| quote: | Vancouver surpasses Salt Lake City in NBC Winter Olympics viewership
According to the Nielsen ratings released by NBC on Monday afternoon, 190 million people watched some part of the Olympics on the various networks of NBC, making it the second-most-watched Winter Games.
The Vancouver Games surpassed the 2002 Salt Lake City Games but trailed the 1994 Lillehammer Games, which were highlighted by the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan controversies. The Lillehammer Olympics had 204 million viewers; the Salt Lake City Olympics had 187 million.
During the 17 nights of Olympic coverage that ended Sunday, NBC drew more total viewers than ABC, CBS and Fox combined. The Games beat "American Idol" once, the first time since 2004 that the Fox's juggernaut show has been bested.
Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports, said: "It’s important to note how truly dominant our performance is because of the many choices available in the world today. At the time of the Lillehammer Games, the average home had less than 40 channels, but today the average home has 130, more than three times 1994, plus the Internet then was still in its infancy. What makes our performance here even more impressive in this age of so many choices on so many media platforms is the fact that we are averaging more than two million more viewers each night than the other three networks combined.”
Sunday's coverage of the closing ceremony got 21.4 million viewers, up 45% from the 2006 closing ceremony in Turin. During the 9-10 p.m. viewing window, the Olympics averaged 20.8 million viewers as opposed to ABC's new episode of "Desperate Housewives" (10.8 million) and CBS' "Undercover Boss" (15.1 million).
The top 10 markets overall in the 17-day average of Olympic viewing: (1) Salt Lake City; (2) Denver; (3) Milwaukee; (4) Seattle; (5) Minneapolis; (6) St. Louis; (7) Columbus; (8) San Diego and West Palm Beach; (10) Portland. Los Angeles ranked 48th of 56 measured markets.
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| quote: | USA-Canada hockey sets TV viewing records for NBC
Canada's 3-2 win over the U.S. in the Olympic gold medal hockey game Sunday was seen by an average of 27.6 million, the most-viewed hockey game in any setting since the 1980 Lake Placid Gold Medal game in the year where the U.S. capped off its "Do you believe in miracles," semifinal win over the Soviet Union by beating Finland in the final game.
The tape-delayed Feb. 24, 1980, U.S.-Finland game had 32.8 million viewers, and the semifinal game against Russia (also tape-delayed) averaged 34.2 million viewers. The 2002 Salt Lake City gold medal game, also between the U.S. and Canada, was seen by 17.1 million in comparison.
“We’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to observe a nation of fans that appreciates winter sports, is proud of their winter sport heritage and celebrates success, no matter which country wins. So it was only fitting yesterday when Sidney Crosby scored the goal to give Canadians the gold that meant so much to this country,” said Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. “ ‘O Canada’ will never be the same.”
According to the Nielsen Co., the viewing audience peaked at 34.8 million viewers between 2:30 and 3:06 PST, when Team USA's Zach Parise sent the game to overtime with 24.4 seconds left in regulation.
The 27.6 million who watched the hockey game is more than the 24 million who saw the Rose Bowl or the 17.6 who viewed the 2009 NCAA basketball championship game and even more than the 25.9 million who watched the 2010 Grammy Awards.
If you missed the game or forgot to record it, Universal Sports will re-broadcast it Tuesday and Wednesday at 5 p.m. PST and again at 8 PST.
Not surprisingly the game was most popular in the U.S. in three cities with traditional hockey followings -- Buffalo (home of U.S. star Patrick Kane), Pittsburgh (Crosby is its Penguins star) and Hockeytown itself, Detroit. Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver and Philadelphia round out the top 10. |
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| jon jon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stilez
Some stats Courtesy of NBC & Neilson Ratings: |
great share! |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by slingshot
Ok, so wait....does the person who wins the most races win Nascar? How about for hockey, does the team with the most wins win the division title? What about golf, how does that work? Person who has the lowest absolute round score wins the tournament? Have I been looking at things backwards all this time? |
apples and oranges |
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| yankeeBaby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
and pole-vaulting is? |
Well, that is a poor example as most high school track teams have pole vaulting, so i guess, yes,I have seen people doing pole-vaulting in my childhood ;) ;) |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
Well, that is a poor example as most high school track teams have pole vaulting, so i guess, yes,I have seen people doing pole-vaulting in my childhood ;) ;) |
I remember doing high/short jumps too! |
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| yankeeBaby |
| quote: | Originally posted by slingshot
Ok, so wait....does the person who wins the most races win Nascar? How about for hockey, does the team with the most wins win the division title? What about golf, how does that work? Person who has the lowest absolute round score wins the tournament? Have I been looking at things backwards all this time? |
This could go on forever. Its a subjective debate and varies depending on sport, personal opinion, and what country is "defending" their success ;) |
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| evil_cookie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by slingshot
Ok, so wait....does the person who wins the most races win Nascar? How about for hockey, does the team with the most wins win the division title? What about golf, how does that work? Person who has the lowest absolute round score wins the tournament? Have I been looking at things backwards all this time? |
You´re comparing apples to oranges there dude.
You´re asking about how the winner of an individual event is decided, which is much different from what we´re talking about. If the country that wins the Olympics were based on Nascar scoring, it´s theoretically possible that a team who sent 200 athletes to the Olympics, and had every single athlete place 4th in their respective events (sure, there would be ties, but I digress), could win the Olympics without winning a single medal.
The Olympics themselves actually have events that are scored similarly to how Nascar or Golf when it comes to deciding a winner. Bobsled, for example, is decided based on the cumulative time built up over the course of 4 races. Figure Skating is decided based on the scores built up over two performances (short and long program, respectively). But at the end of those events, there IS a winner, and everyone else loses. When deciding the winner of the overall games, all I want to know is who WON the most events, and feel that that´s all that should matter.
I don´t care who was the best out of the losers, I just want to know who won, much the same way I don´t care about who lost in Golf (If Tiger Woods came second in every single golf tournament he entered, he wouldn´t be considered the best, he´d be the laughing-stock of the PGA), or Hockey (is a team that loses 29 straight stanley cups to 29 different teams the best in hockey? No, they never actually WON) or the NFL (lol Peyton Manning choking every time the game counts, Tom Brady s on your records and wipes his ass with a different Super Bowl ring every time). The only time the consolation prizes should matter in the count is to decide a tie-breaker. A gold medal is worth 100 silvers any day of the week. It´s a hundred times easier to take 2nd and a hundred times even EASIER to take 3rd in an event than it is to actually win, and that´s why the winner of the games is decided by the Gold count, not overall medals. |
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