Fewer Viewers Light Up Olympic Torch for NBC
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NBC's broadcast of the 2004  Olympics has gotten off to as bumpy a start as the U.S. Olympic  team itself, with prime-time ratings for the first three days  of the Summer Games down slightly from four years ago,  according to figures released on Monday.
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A sponsorship deal with NBC and Philips Electronics will allow viewers to see more news and fewer commercials during the ÂNBC Nightly News With Brian Williams.Â
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During the 1,210 hours of Olympics coverage across the NBC Universal networks, audiences were exposed to 13,000 to 14,000 commercials.
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NEW YORK   NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage. Sunday&#39;s 4 1/2-hour broadcast was last week&#39;s most-watched show, winning NBC a huge audience of 25.8 million ...
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NBC, which finished fourth in the  prime-time ratings last spring, was the No. 1 network on the  opening night of the new U.S. broadcast season, according to  figures issued on Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.
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NEW YORK  - NBC lapped the primetime competition Tuesday as its Olympics coverage averaged 29.3 million viewers to second-ranked CBS&#39; 8.2 million.
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If David Letterman hoped a deal with striking writers would help him in his battle for late-night supremacy with Jay Leno, it hasn't happened yet. Leno's NBC "Tonight" show averaged 5.17 million viewers last week, despite its writers being on strike and big-name celebrities being encouraged not to cross the picket line.
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Fox dominated the ratings on Tuesday, thanks to two popular shows, âAmerican Idolâ at 8 p.m. and âHouseâ at 9. Those shows delivered 28.1 million and 22.5 million viewers, Nielsen estimated. A repeat of CBSâs âNCISâ at 8 attracted the nightâs third-largest audience (11.7 million). CBSâs all-rerun lineup tied NBC for runner-up on the night, but NBC fared better among adults 18 to 49 with âThe Biggest Loserâ at 8 (8.3 million) followed by âLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitâ at 10 (9.4 million). ABC finished fourth overall. On Monday President Bushâs final State of the Union address attracted the smallest audience of his two terms, 37.5 million viewers. That tally was 8 million fewer than a year ago, but 6 million more than President Clintonâs last State of the Union address in 2000. The speech was broadcast live at 9 p.m. on a total of nine network and cable channels.
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Despite a stellar turnout, Saturday night's Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope was not a ratings blockbuster. The two-hour, mostly live show averaged 5.7 million viewers on NBC, according to preliminary estimates, which showed Fox's football telecast averaging 21.5 million.
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One week into its coverage of the  Athens Olympics, television network NBC has mounted a comeback  in viewership worthy of U.S. gold-medal gymnasts, reversing an  early slump to post ratings well ahead of four years ago.
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The NBC television network is showing the equivalent of five Olympics in its blanket coverage of the Athens games, offering some 1,210 hours of footage to keep sports fans glued to their sets.
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NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage.
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Going for gold Hands on Microsoft's deal with US media giant NBC Universal to stream this summer's Olympic Games online using Silverlight represents a major demonstration of the potential of Microsoft's emerging browser-based runtime and streaming service.â¦
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A big loser at this year's Emmy ceremony? The Emmys broadcast, which may have been the least-watched in history. Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday's show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That's 3 million fewer than for last year's telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
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A few hundred yards from Olympic Stadium is a cream-colored monolith that is the 2004 Games&#39; International Broadcast Center. Inside is NBC&#39;s Games headquarters and Dick Ebersol.
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LOS ANGELES  - A blowout NFL preseason  game between Kansas City and St. Louis was no match for NBC's  primetime Olympics coverage on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - The spectacle in Athens  lured 56 million viewers to watch at least some portion of  NBC's Friday primetime telecast of the opening ceremonies of  the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.