In rough Olympics, viewers perked up a bit in second week

NEW YORK – In what was in any other case a tough two weeks in Tokyo for NBC, tv viewers responded — at least a bit — to the U.S. Olympic team’s sturdy general performance in the second 50 percent of the Video games.

NBC’s primary-time broadcast viewership for the 2nd week was down 46% in contrast to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics of 2016, the Nielsen corporation mentioned. In the initial week, NBC was down 52% compared to Rio.

Very last Tuesday, the 14.3 million people who viewed the Game titles on NBC was actually up from the 14 million that had watched a week earlier from Tokyo. Generally, viewership goes down in the 2nd 7 days of the Olympics as viewers start out to tire of the nightly level of competition.

NBC claimed the Tokyo online games averaged 15.6 million in prime-time viewership when the principal community, cable shops and streaming are added in. Which is down 42% from the Olympics in Brazil.

The Tokyo streaming intake of 5.5 billion minutes was up 22% about Rio, NBC reported.

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For the week, NBC averaged 10.6 million viewers in prime time. CBS had 2.3 million, Fox experienced 2.1 million, ABC experienced 1.9 million, Univision experienced 1.3 million, Ion Tv experienced 1.1 million and Telemundo had 960,000.

Fox Information Channel was the most-watched cable network in primary time, averaging 2.06 million viewers. The United states community had 1.16 million, MSNBC experienced 1.01 million, HGTV had 980,000 and TLC had 910,000.

ABC’s “World Information Tonight” gained the evening news scores race with and common of 7.4 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.9 million and the “CBS Night News” had 4.7 million.

For the 7 days of Aug. 2-8, the 20 most-viewed applications in prime time, their networks and viewerships:

1. “Summer Olympics” (Tuesday), NBC, 14.31 million.

2. “Summer Olympics” (Monday), NBC, 13.71 million.

3. “Summer Olympics” (Wednesday), NBC, 11.01 million.

4. “Summer Olympics” (Thursday), NBC, 10.99 million.

5. “Summer Olympics” (Friday), NBC, 9.85 million.

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6. “Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony,” NBC, 8.82 million.

7. “Summer Olympics” (Saturday), NBC, 8.45 million.

8. NFL Exhibition Soccer: Dallas vs. Pittsburgh, Fox, 7.31 million.

9. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.10 million.

10. “Tokyo Gold,” NBC, 5.84 million.

11. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 3.97 million.

12. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 3.73 million.

13. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 3.66 million.

14. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 3.64 million.

15. “Family Match Combat,” NBC, 3.39 million.

16. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.16 million.

17. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.07 million.

18. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 2.927 million.

19. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox Information, 2.923 million.

20. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday), Fox News, 2.8 million.