Neon Nettle:
Establishment network NBC is giving advertisers who purchased airtime during the Tokyo Olympics free commercials due to abysmal ratings of this year’s Olympic Games.
The rating tanked when woke athletes protesting the U.S. flag and national anthem saw a massive backlash from viewers who decided to switch off.
NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua claimed the network would still make money but did not give any further details.
NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics averaged 14.7 million viewers, a 49% drop compared to the equivalent night from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and 53% less than the 2012 London Olympics
The opening ceremonies saw the lowest viewership since 1988. more
Hard to believe that we have 14.7 million morons who will watch this shit.
izlamo delenda est …
Doesn’t matter to me if the advertising is free or they charge for it as I never watch it anyway!
I work for a Japanese company. We probably won’t hear about it, but I bet there will be suicides over this. They have some strange ways about them.
I never switched on.
“Give ’em more ad time”
We took yer money and we’re not about to give it back, but here’s more ad time.
Maybe those people who aren’t watching will see them now!!
(Insert the Nelon “Ha Ha” here)
I did not see one second of the Olympics and I have watched them in the past. Turned it off for the same reason I did the NFL.
Wow I was just listening to the Bee Gees Can you mend a broken heart?
Bad luck, smad buck. Americans don’t care to watch an obvious dike (who would probably be stoned in another country) and her half wit posse diss the nation. Investing in that train wreak is like investing in covered wagons.
Communist know.
Communist don’t care.
They aren’t trying to make money.
They are making propaganda.
When they need money, Democrats will just call them “infrastructure” and take it from us to give to them.
NBC isn’t going anywhere.
It’s too useful for spreading Newspeak, confusion, and fear.
…and also making high dollar jobs for Party annointed…
A bargain at twice the price.
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No biggie, it will all be just another tax write-off. And when they do air the ads it will be at 3am.
Olympic soapbox political whiners have killed the attraction. TV sports broadcasts have died from the embedded politics as well.
@Anon
A new Olympic event, held after the Olympics are over: No- Parachute Skydiving off of Tokyo high rises.
Hideo Hashimoto: My boss say company make only 3 yen from Olympic….can not live more…BANZAI.
FTO
You know what it means.
I didn’t miss watching at all. Maybe all sports will be off tv soon. Keep up your “woke bs”. America is tuning out.