Despite Tape Delay, NBC Draws Best Overnight Ever For A Foreign Opening Ceremonies – From Our Editors – SBNation.com

NBC drew a 23.0/40 overnight (a number used to measure viewing levels in the top 56 markets) rating for the 2012 Opening Ceremonies, marking the best overnight ever for a non-U.S. hosted Olympics ever, topping even the stunning Beijing ceremonies just four years earlier by 7 percent (21.0/34). It also topped the most recent Opening Ceremonies, from 2010 in Vancouver (though rarely are Summer and Winter Olympics compared to one another) by a whopping 15 percent (20.0/33).

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