Viewers Complain About Too Many Olympics Ads, But Volume Actually Fell Many consumers took to social media to complain about the frequent ad interruptions during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics. But commercial time was actually down almost 19% from the 2012 London Olympics, indicating that viewers have grown le Read more ... ss tolerant of advertising.

NBC Fails to Score Gold with Olympics Opening Ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio drew 26.5 million viewers on Comcast Corp.’s NBC on Friday night, a 35% decline from the record-setting audience for London’s opener in 2012, which attracted 40.7 million viewers, according to Niel Read more ... sen.

The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin The presentation of the human history of Brazil during the Opening Ceremony was beautiful, sombre, and straightforward.

The best moments from the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics officially kicked off on Friday with the opening ceremony held in Rio's Maracana Stadium.

Rio Olympics: See social media pics from the opening ceremony With the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio offering spectacle and global pride, there are countless moments that viewers could have missed.

Olympics Officials Clearly Trying To Buy More Time With 6-Day-Long Opening Ceremony Performance RIO DE JANEIRO—Citing the variety of long, drawn-out performances and back-to-back recitations of the Olympic oath in 30 different languages, sources confirmed Friday that Rio Olympics officials were clearly trying to buy more time with a six-day-l Read more ... ong opening ceremony.

Welcome To Our 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Liveblog Tonight’s the night. Despite the crushing problems facing the Rio Olympics, the Games are finally kicking off tonight (sort of). We’ll be liveblogging the televised Opening Ceremony here. Clearly moved by the Olympic spirit of cooperation, our fr Read more ... iends from Jezebel are joining us! Let’s do this.

Even the Opening Ceremony will be cut-price at crisis-hit Rio Olympics Fernando Meirelles, the movie director who is in charge of Friday's opening ceremony, said he had to take the ax to the budget and even the number of performers at the grand opening to the Rio Games.

Report: The Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Gisele Bündchen Getting Assaulted That supermodel Gisele would have a role in this week’s Olympics opening ceremony was a given, and previous reports indicated the Brazilian supermodel would have a “sexy starring role.” But reports from witnesses of Sunday’s opening ceremony Read more ... dress rehearsal explained to Brazil’s UOL that Tom Brady’s...

NBC Won't Air The Olympics Opening Ceremony Live The Rio Olympics formally begin August 5th with the opening ceremony from the Maracanã stadium. Proceedings start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, only you won’t be able to watch them on NBC until at least an hour later. At a press conference yesterday, NB Read more ... C execs announced plans to broadcast the ceremony at ...