NBC has 33-year low viewership for Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony: ‘Not a happy’ benchmark

NBC has 33-year low viewership for Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony: ‘Not a happy’ benchmark

The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, drew 16.7 million viewers for NBC on Friday, the smallest audience for the network broadcast in the past 33 years, according to data from the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday.