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Olympic ratings down 50 percent

NEW YORK — For most nights at the Tokyo Olympics, NBC’s prime time coverage is drawing about half the audience that the Games had in Rio de Janeiro five years ago.

The numbers are sobering: Sunday’s NBC audience was down 51% from the 26.7 million who watched in Rio.

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