NBC said the audience for the London ceremony was six million more(a) for your opening ceremonies from Beijing in 2008, and also beat the 39.8 million audience for that Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996.
U.S. viewers must wait as many as seven hours on Friday to look at the London ceremony after NBC didn't stream it live in order to delay its broadcast till the prime time evening hours.
NBC sports group chairman Mark Lazarus said within a Wii Accessories statement on Saturday how the record audience for London "is a wonderful early sign our means of driving individuals to watch NBC in primetime is working."
NBCUniversal paid $1.18 billion for that U.S. rights on the London Olympics. It's streaming each of the sporting events live on the internet and boosting its TV coverage on the 2012 games to more(a) 5,500 hours.
But Americans popularized Twitter in droves on Friday whenever they realized that the opening ceremony can't be seen until hours after it finished from the British capital.
CNN talk show host Piers Morgan, who was simply tweeting details about the ceremony from London, said on Friday: "Laughable that America is yet to start watching the Olympic ceremony in the media. Seriously."
NBC sports spokesman Christopher McCloskey said the opening ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online simply because wii gun controllers they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for that large prime-time audiences that gather together to observe them."
Inside a decision that caused controversy in great britan, NBC cut a musical tribute from your opening ceremony for the victims of the July 2005 extremist attacks london buses and trains. Instead the network showed a short interview with Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps by "The american idol show" host Ryan Seacrest.
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