NBC's 'Cataclysmic' Olympics-Coverage Flop

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The Olympics Dud

Dear readers, is there a more beautiful phrase this morning than
“cataclysmic loss of audience”?

NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter
Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony,
averaging just 16 million.

It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988
in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent below
the 2018 Games in South Korea that notched 28.3 million viewers
despite also dealing with a less than advantageous Asian time zone
for American audiences.

It comes on the heels of Thursday’s ratings disaster that saw just
7.7 million people tune in, dramatically below same-night audiences
of 2018 (16 million) and 2014 from Russia (20.02 million).


Discussions about whether Americans should watch this year’s Winter
Olympics or boycott them often veer into what people think of the
Olympics themselves. I won’t be watching, but I don’t begrudge
anyone for tuning in to cheer on Team USA. I actually like that,
once every four years, we get really fired up about downhill skiing,
figure skating, curling, etc.

It isn’t the athletes’ fault that the IOC selected Beijing — not
even a particularly cold or snowy city! — to host an Olympics for
the second time in 14 years. It is not even NBC’s fault, although
apparently the network’s billion-dollar investment in broadcasting
the games makes it a hostage–partner to whatever propaganda the
Chinese government chooses to present.


Benz points to NHL players not participating (eh, maybe), the time
difference (eh, it’s not much different from Tokyo or Pyeongchang,
South Korea), wonders if patriotism is perceived as too uncool these
days, and observes that, “The Olympics are a two-week-long network
television miniseries in an era when no one watches network
television anymore.”

On paper, that last argument makes sense, but there’s the glaring
exception of this year’s wild NFL playoff games, which generated
monster ratings for three straight weekends.


What shifted — besides Covid-19 and the lack of spectators for the
second straight Olympics — is that the IOC is no longer getting
caught in an awkward spot between autocratic regimes and the
democratic West. The IOC is now clearly on the side of the
autocratic regimes. It’s one thing for the IOC to fail to stand up
for de facto hostage Peng Shuai; we’re used to such cowardice. But
it’s another thing for the IOC to voluntarily participate in the
propaganda effort, as our Maddy Kearns reports:

In Beijing, Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis player, gave an interview
with the French sports newspaper L’Equipe while a Chinese Olympic
official stood nearby. When asked about her sexual assault
allegations against a former high-ranking member of the Chinese
Communist Party, Shuai said that international concerns about her
safety and whereabouts had been “an enormous misunderstanding.”

Shuai also had a face-to-face meeting with the president of the
International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, which no doubt is
supposed to alleviate international concern for the tennis star.
When asked whether or not the IOC believes Peng’s speech is being
controlled, the IOC spokesman told the press conference that while
they were pursuing “personal and quiet diplomacy,” “It’s [not] for
us to be able to judge, in one way, just as it’s not for you to
judge either.”

How can you feel good about the Olympics after reading something
like that?

Jules Boykoff, the author of five books on the Olympic Games, wrote
in Politico yesterday:

The authoritarian challenge to democracy and human rights is
arguably the defining geopolitical story of our time. Rather than
oppose this trend, the IOC seems to be participating in it. Bach
says his group’s primary “responsibility is to run the Games in
accordance with the Olympic Charter.” But that charter speaks of
“promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of
human dignity” — goals that feel impossible to square with the IOC’s
unwillingness to engage with critics and call out human rights
violations. Faced with an opportunity to align their sentiments and
actions, the overlords of the Olympics have instead accelerated the
Games’ years-long shift into an economic juggernaut and ideological
black hole with sport appended to its flank.

Americans could grit their teeth and just live with an Olympic games
hosted in Sochi, Russia, or Beijing the first time, or Sarajevo in
socialist Yugoslavia back in 1984. But this? This is way beyond the
pale.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/nbcs-cataclysmic-
olympics-coverage-flop/

NBC, take your black Bob Costas and shove him up your ass. We've
had enough of that nigger Mike Tirico.