NBC's 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Coverage Is Down From 2014

Still the most-watched Friday night television program in nearly four years.

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Hosted by NBC Sports’s Mike Tirico and former NBC News anchor Katie Couric, alongside NBC Sports’ Asia analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo, NBC’s edited, prime-time presentation of the 2018 Pyeyongchang Olympics Opening Ceremony saw a drop in viewership compared to the 2014 Sochi Olympics opener.

NBC’s 2018 opening ceremony broadcast posted a Total Audience Delivery of 28.3 million viewers, per Nielsen live plus same day data and digital data from Adobe analytics.

That’s an 11 percent decline from the 2014 Sochi opening ceremony, which posted 31.7

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