Washington: London Olympics made the history as NBC’s TV coverage showed that it was the most-watched television event in US history, with some 219.4 million viewers, the network said on Monday.
Though there were complaints regarding the Summer Games of delays in broadcasting popular events until prime time hours, problems with online streaming, and edited versions of the opening and closing ceremony, more people watched the 2012 Olympics than 2008 Beijing Games.
NBC said that 215 million watched the 2008 Beijing Games on television.
NBC said that it also smashed records online, winning nearly 2 billion page views and 159 million video streams of its Olympics coverage, Reuters reported.
NBCUniversal Chief Executive Steve Burke said in a statement that the results “exceeded all our expectations in viewership, digital, consumption and revenue.”
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