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Nielsen has tracked television ratings for all summer and winter Olympic Games broadcasts since 1968. Ratings data for Olympic Games telecasts from 1968 to 2006 — including ratings for opening and closing ceremonies and average ratings for each Olympics — are available below:
The Olympic Games have been broadcast on television since the 1936 Summer Olympics.
24 sty 2023 · The 1936 Summer Olympics was the tenth edition of the modern Summer Games, and was held from 1st to 16th August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Aside from the Games' notoriety for being hosted by Nazi Germany, and for Jesse Owens winning four gold medals, the 1936 Summer Olympics was also the first ever Summer Olympics to be televised live. [1]
Television Coverage. The 1936 Games were the first to be broadcast on television. Twenty-five television viewing rooms were set up in the Greater Berlin area, allowing the locals to follow the Games free of charge. Young Olympians. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the U.S. won the gold medal in springboard diving.
8 lip 2024 · Number of countries and territories broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games from 1936 to 2016
Closed circuit television coverage of the Berlin 1936: Summer Olympics Games of the XI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Berlin, Prussia, Germany from 1 August 1936 through 16 August 1936.
The 1936 Berlin Olympic games were the first to be televised. The Nazi government used the Olympics as a propaganda tool, and the presence of television was used to highlight Germany's sophisticated technology.