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Winter Olympics Knocks Off American Idol As Most Watched TV Programme
The Vancouver Games have already set new records, with Canada's shock Olympic ice hockey loss to the United States on Sunday the most viewed sports program in Canadian television history.
And last week American Idol, the runaway television success that has enjoyed a US ratings stranglehold for almost six years, was knocked off top spot by the Olympics.
"I feel that we're well on track to providing the most extensive broadcast coverage of any Winter Olympic Games in history," said International Olympic Committee director of television and marketing Timo Lumme.
"We have over 300 broadcasters or television stations showing coverage, over 100 websites worldwide in over 200 territories.
"If we look at that we have -- from the broadcast-only side -- around 24,000 hours of coverage. That's around 47 percent more than Torino," he added.
"The total amount of coverage we expect, adding up all the coverage throughout the world, should exceed around 50,000 hours by the end of the Games.
"We would expect around 3.5 billion people, over half the population of the world, will have watched some coverage of the Games."
Keith Pelley, president of Canada's Olympic broadcast media consortium, said the coverage was unprecedented.
"Television, radio, print, digital -- every single second of the Games is being streamed online. The other day we had 14 streams going at one time," he said.
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