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Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Viewership Sees Gold Medal Results For NBCUniversal With Huge Rise From Tokyo


The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony drew TKTK U.S. viewers across Peacock and NBC

Previous to the competition in Japan, which was set for Peacock’s 2020 debut and obviously was pushed back a year due to Covid lockdowns, all Summer Games on NBC and other NBCU controlled channels and outlets were in the Comcast-owned company’s pre-steaming era. “Last night’s Opening Ceremony, one of the most ambitious and complex in Olympic history, was a spectacle for those in attendance in Paris, delivered a huge audience across our NBCU platforms, and set records for Peacock,” said NBC Sports President. Needing a little less indulgence, the nearly four-hour long extravaganza saw over 200 delegations of competing athletes traveling down the Seine on barges, some Celine Dion, some Aya Nakamura, some Lady Gaga, some heavy metal, some parkour, some couture, some drag queens and some cultural buttons pushed, and more than a dozen headless Marie Antoinettes, as well as a lot of rain.

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