Comments on: Forty Million in USA Watch Phelps Record-Breaking Eighth Medal; Total US Reach up to 191 Million People

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:13:01 +0000

It is amazing to me that the taped coverage by time zones outdrew the live coverage. I guess NBC knew what they were doing. Perplexing to me…..I am not one of those in the SF area that have been watching the NBC Coverage..

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:13:01 +0000

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:40:00 +0000

The Golden Girls’ spinoff, “Empty Nest” averaged 31.4 million on 2/24/1990, according to the press release.

By: J

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:35:51 +0000

So, what aired on a saturday 18 years ago?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:38:00 +0000

Jonathan, as written elsewhere, even Zucker/NBC expect the ratings to decrease for the second-week. Currently after 9 days its well ahead of the Athens averages, so the slide would have to be fairly large for Beijing to fare worse than Athens, but it could certainly happen.

I’d love to see the 15 minute data for 11:00p-11:15p portion, it probably was higher than the 40 million cited which was for the whole 11:00-11:30 half hour.

By: Jonathan B.

Jonathan B. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:32:00 +0000

The numbers for the Phelps race are lower than I expected, honestly, but the numbers for the rest of the night surprise me. I expected most people to just wait until 11:00 to tune in, but the even viewing is probably good news for NBC overall.

However, it’ll be interesting to see if numbers will drop a lot without Phelps now. I mean, numbers usually begin dropping for the Olympics after 10 days or so, but I wonder if it’ll permanently be behind Athens now.