NovaHF said:EmilCioran said:
"A record 4.1 billion cumulative viewers tuned in to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, up from the 3.8 billion who watched London 2012, the IPC says." All it takes is a few seconds of Google. The Olympics and Paralympics are incredibly popular and widely mainstream, unlike anime which most people do not watch. Didn't misspell or provide any misinformation either./quote]
That says cumulative, meaning they've added the number of viewers for every session, it doesn't mean 4.1 billion different people.
They just advertise it this way to make it seem impressive but with over 500 events that works out to like 8 million people watching.
plus his/her statement has nothing to do with the present Tokyo Olympics and their viewership INSIDE Japan. i do believe those 'cumulative ratings' for Rio etc. were WORLD WIDE. not inside Brazil etc. those countries that were hosting said sports events.
you mentioned those 500 events, were you thinking of the 500 'medal events'? ie the group who gets the top 3 and wins a gold silver bronze? well there's the exhibition events too, those who don't get 'medaled'... AND all the qualifiers FOR the 'medaled events' AND the 'exhibition events' qualifiers too. so grand total that 8 million could probably be divided even FUTHER!
i know in 1996 our OWN Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA and in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah had HUGE broadcast BLACKOUTS locally. Park City, SLC, the Soccer matches in Birmingham, Alabama for 'lanta were blacked out here in Alabama. all we could watch were the... i think NBC... got the coverage rights for those two. for early evening/prime-time broadcasting which was not often live, live 'on tape' reporting and suchforth did happen. but trying to watch figure-skating 'as it happened' on TV in SLC wasn't easy, or hockey matches either. i was IN SLC working with the US Military as a guard for the ENTIRE Winter Olympics in Utah and i didn't get to watch much coverage OTHER THAN SKYTV and BBC channels off a satellite dish from England!
so the fact that the Japanese have MULTIPLE CHANNELS... broadcasting their Olympics... bully for them, i'm glad they get to watch em. it's not normal in my experience though.
but i seriously can't remember watching a single Olympic event other than the two ones i mentioned... because i was in Utah, and Atlanta is not even a 3 hour drive East of my parents' home. so i was involved 'in some form' in both those. and my Uncle (a State Game Warden and law enforcement officer for Georgia) was working at the 'lanta Olympics as well. plus the bombing at the Centennial Olympic Park in 'lanta DEFINITELY caught my attention. also as i'm a former law enforcement officer with the US Military, domestic terrorism and suchforth.
the International Olympic Committee has OFTEN been called out for inflating the viewerships of ALMOST every Olympics world-wide since TV cameras were first installed. certainly with the advent of satellite telecommunications and tape-delays more and more people around the world can watch the Olympics. but for something that happens meh, if you count the every 2 years Winters and the 4 years Summers... there's 2 Winter ones for every 1 Summer one... for 2 weeks of normals and 2 weeks of para each 'season'.
compare that to World Cup Soccer Season... which according to Sports Illustrated Magazine's website: "Every two years, national teams play 18 games in nine double-header weeks, plus a longer period for a continental championship or a World Cup." NINE WEEKS! vs FOUR if you count the ENTIRE Olympics (normal and para) all at once. and last time i checked, they do ALL those WCSS matches LIVE if at all humanly possible for ALL world-wide fans. i've had a few friends from overseas who were living here in the US on work or student visas. they either VHS taped, DVR, or stayed up all night and called into work/took sick for class. all for their 'national' soccer teams' matches in WCSS.
maybe they're doing that for these Olympics? maybe not.
heck there's some ethnic groups' restaurants, bars, etc. in US Cities who HOST viewing parties for ALL the folks from that Country in that area. JIC somebody can't afford a pay-per-view ticket or satellite channel for some soccer matches in World Cup Season.
several years ago i was stationed in Italy and had the chance to work alongside the Carabinieri, national Police Force for Italy. i asked a few of them, 'what's soccer like here in Italy, do you guys love it?' all of the guys laughed their asses off and agreed. there's nearly a nation-wide holiday in World Cup Soccer Season for matches in Italy when their National Team is doing well. poorly, yeah the Carabinieri said fewer folks stay home from work and such to watch it on TV when Italy is doing bad. but they all agreed, they loved to play even as adults for fun or in 'local leagues' for minor prize money when matches are between larger towns and city champions. i described to them the Minor League pro-baseball teams here in the US and the Carabinieri all agreed, they had even SMALLER teams with LESS funding for soccer in Italy. the players didn't even get a tiny salary, but they still earned a little prize cash for winning a few matches.
now compare that to the Olympics? where not too long ago NOBODY who made a SINGLE CENT off their sport could compete. all those 'pro soccer players' around the world didn't compete in the Olympics. but now anybody who's even in the millions upon millions of dollars of income from their sport can get into the Olympics.
but hey, the Japanese want to broadcast over anything and everything because it's 'their miracle' due to covid last year and this year and all the problems with everything. so i'm happy they've got their Tokyo Olympics, and Para. am i disappointed another anime got preempted? yup. i'll be able to watch it next week though.
on another side-note:
last time i checked, the 'modern' Olympics started in Paris, France in 1896... not EXACTLY a 'centuries' long tradition hmm? the Centennial was in Atlanta, GA in 1996... during my lifetime... i DOUBT i'll be there for the Bicentennial Olympics in 2096. :D i do believe English grammar requires more than one 'item' for a plural to be the correct form. |