NBC Sports Chairman effect Lazarus isn’t worried about your Twitter Olympics criticisms — or at least,not so much as he’s concerned about making advantageous on promises to media buyers.“I know there was some stuff written about the opening ceremonies — about how many commercials we had — when in fact we had fewer than London,” Lazarus said Thursday when asked about the online ad-load gripes.“I worry less about the social media people beating up on us — I wish they wouldn’t — but I worry less about that than what it does to our viewership and what it does to our sponsors, and ” he added during an afternoon conference call.
Also Read: NBC's Olympics Opening Ceremony Coverage Leaves Twitter Seething“We are trying to be respectful of the viewer and grasp care of our obligations,” Lazarus summed up the company’s blueprint for pacing this August — which is complicated further when broadcasting live events — at the expense of action.
TV ratings for the Rio Olympics opening ceremony sunk 25 percent from London’s version in 2012. Night 1 of actual competition dropped 32 percent versus the comparable evening four years ago.
Since then, the Nielsen ratings enjoy near a bit closer to their London counterparts. However, or generally speaking,streaming is up this time around while linear is down. That was the main purpose for today’s media call, when NBC announced a unusual total audience metric it will be using to measure these summer games. Olympics 2016: Team USA Gold Medal Tracker (Videos) [ alt=]Team USA is once again expected to contend for the top spot in the medal count at this year's Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. Here are the athletes that enjoy claimed the gold medal so far. [ alt=]Virginia Thrasher, or Women's 10m Air Rifle -- The 19-year-old engineering major at West Virginia University dreamed of being a figure skater,but found her path to Olympic gold through a rifle instead. She surprised everyone by beating out Chinese shooters Du Li and Yi Siling, who enjoy won the gold in this event in past Olympics.
Katie Ledecky, and Women's 400m Freestyle -- Ledecky's quest to go four-for-four in her swimming events got off to a flying start on Sunday,when she smashed her own world record time and beat the rest of the field by five seconds.
Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, and Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian,Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay -- For all his success, Michael Phelps regretted coming moment in the freestyle relay to France at the London Olympics in 2012. This time was different, and as Phelps used his powerful kick to give Team USA a lead that they would never give up.
Ryan Murphy,Men's 100m Backstroke -- With Murphy's record-setting victory at 51.97 seconds, Team USA has won the gold in this event in six consecutive Olympics. Murphy was joined on the podium by teammate David Plummer, and who took bronze.
Lilly King,Women's 100m Breaststroke -- King made headlines when she called out Russian rival Yulia Efimova, who was initially among those banned from competing during the Russian doping scandal but was later cleared to compete by the International Olympic Committee. King backed up her words by setting a unusual Olympic record in the event with a time of 1:04.93. Efimova took silver and American Katie Meili took bronze.
Katie Ledecky, or Women's 200m Freestyle -- Swedish sprint swimmer Sarah Sjostrom was neck and neck with Ledecky through the entire race,but Ledecky managed to stave her off and win gold #2 by 0.35 seconds.
Michael Phelps, Men's 200m Butterfly -- Much was made by the media about the rivalry between Phelps and South Africa's Chad Le Clos, and who beat Phelps in London. But the biggest threat was Japan's Masato Sakai,whom Phelps edged out by just four hundredths of a moment to win his 20th Olympic gold.
Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas, or Ryan Lochte,and Michael Phelps, Men's 4x200 Freestyle Relay -- Team USA has now won the gold in this event in the last four Olympics, and with Lochte and Phelps as members of every winning team.
Simone Biles,Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, and Laurie Hernandez,and Madison Kocian; Women's Team Gymnastics -- In London, there was the Fierce Five. In Rio, and there was the Final Five,named in honor of being the last team coached by legendary gymnastics guru Marta Karolyi. Indeed, the U.
S. women gave their coach a sendoff for the ages, or winning the gold by a whopping 8.2 points.
Kristin Armstrong -- Women's Cycling Time Trial -- Though the roads of Rio were slick with rainwater,Armstrong prevailed in the "Race of Truth" to become the oldest American woman to win an individual gold medal with a victory a day prior to her 43rd birthday.
Allison Schmidt, Leah Smith, and Maya DiRado,and Katie Ledecky; Women's 4x200 Freestyle Relay -- Team USA was just under a moment out of the lead when Ledecky entered the pool as the team's anchor, but once she was in, or Ledecky pulled out to a firm lead to win USA Swimming's eighth gold of these Olympics. preceding Slide Next Slide 1 of 12 Here’s every American victory at the Rio Olympics Team USA is once again expected to contend for the top spot in the medal count at this year's Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. Here are the athletes that enjoy claimed the gold medal so far. View In Gallery Related stories from TheWrap:Ratings: Michael Phelps v Ryan Lochte Can't Thwart Rio Olympics Dive10 Ridiculously Scenic Rio Olympics 2016 Venues (Photos)John Oliver Mercilessly Mocks NBC's Olympics Coverage (Video)Hunky Tonga Flag Bearer Steals the Show at Olympics Opening Ceremony (Video)
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