Interesting Fact # 864 - The Olympics
According to the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing Games are set to become the most widely broadcast event in Olympic history.
(Timo Lumme, the IOC's director of TV and marketing said that by the end of the Beijing Games, three times more TV and online material would have been broadcast than at the Athens Games in 2004. "The figure for total viewing in the world could be around 1.2 billion people," he said.
In China alone, a total of 842 million people tuned in to at least some of the opening ceremony and more than 1 billion Chinese people have watched at least one Olympic event. Whilst in the United States, more than 40 million viewers watched swimmer Michael Phelps win his eighth gold medal - the biggest Saturday night audience since 1990.)
Source BBC News.
(Timo Lumme, the IOC's director of TV and marketing said that by the end of the Beijing Games, three times more TV and online material would have been broadcast than at the Athens Games in 2004. "The figure for total viewing in the world could be around 1.2 billion people," he said.
In China alone, a total of 842 million people tuned in to at least some of the opening ceremony and more than 1 billion Chinese people have watched at least one Olympic event. Whilst in the United States, more than 40 million viewers watched swimmer Michael Phelps win his eighth gold medal - the biggest Saturday night audience since 1990.)
Source BBC News.
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