(23-07-2022, 12:50 PM)gottago Wrote: I'm so curious to see what the ratings will be like for the games. I'm still not feeling any buzz for the event with less than a week to go, certainly nothing like Glasgow. I don't know what changed but the conceit of a multisport event that involves an otherwise quite odd selection of countries (in sporting terms) with a some world class athletes but not all of them feels a lot more pointless than it did four years ago to me.In terms of viewing figures it I think it will benefit from the fact that it’s live sport, which seems to have been hit less in terms of falling viewing figures than other programming. And it’ll be all over BBC One/Three so whilst be won’t be unavoidable it will very much front and centre once it starts.
To be honest, whilst people were a lot more people were aware of it, in the build up in the population at large there was a lot of apathy towards the London Olympics, that all changes once it begins.
(23-07-2022, 01:07 PM)Brekkie Wrote: It really is completely off the radar. I frequent a couple of Aussie media sites and they are pushing it much more and the News Corp papers are even adding a later edition over there to report overnight newsI think one of the issues with the games from the UK point of view, unlike the Olympics there isn’t one unified Team GB for the national media to get unashamedly behind, so it’s a more difficult sell from that point of view. Obviously not an issue in Australia.