Which Is The Most Watched TV Broadcast In The World Ever?

We had spotted the most tweeted event in the world – one question that we always wanted to find out the answer for, was this – which is the most watched TV event, ever? must be some sports event – how about a superbowl – or, going by the popularity of cricket in the world’s second most populous country, India, could it be a cricket match? We spotted this today:

“Estimates for the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony global TV viewership varied between one and four billion, including an estimated 842 million viewers watching on host Chinese broadcaster China Central Television.A verifiable audience of 984 million tuned in to the opening ceremony at some stage, averaging at 593 million, while 778 million watched the closing ceremony.The 2008 Summer Olympics is the current record holder for a multi-day broadcast. It is estimated by Nielsen Media Research that up to 4.7 billion individual viewers (70% of the world’s population) watched some part of the coverage.”

Statistics Source: Wikipedia

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IPL 2012 Statistics: All Viewership Numbers In Decline

We had spotted some interesting IPL Stats in the past and some real crazy cricket stats – maybe this is an industry thats nearing maturity now – we spotted this today:

“The first matches of the season had recorded an average Television Viewership Rating (TVR) of 3.76, 18.7% less than the previous season.[19] The viewership was also reportedly low for the opening ceremony with a rating of 1.3 TVR.[20] The downfall was attributed to the number of matches being played, as the count stands at 76 among 9 teams.[21] The rating continued to fall as the cumulative number of people who tuned in to watch those[which?] games also declined from 127.40 million to 122.44 million. The 12th match played between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals drew the highest rating of the season with a rating of 5.2, as of 20 April.[22]”

Statistics Source: Wikipedia

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$1.2M: Price For A Rare Baseball Card

We spotted this today:

“A New Jersey man paid $1.2 million for a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card in an online auction that brought interest from many potential buyers who had never owned a card before, the sale organizer said.”

Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/04/20/rare-baseball-card-sells-for-1-2m-at-auction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fcurious_capitalist+%28TIME%3A+Business%29#ixzz1sdTcKBBl

We need to digest this stat together with the Ferrari selling for 16 million.

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$3 Million: What Tiger Woods Is Being Paid To Show Up In Abi Dhabi

We spotted this today:

“The AP reports that Tiger will receive an appearance fee of around $3 million to play in the event.
HSBC is one of the big corporate sponsors of the Tiger Woods Foundation, which may have also played a part in the decision.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-woods-dubai-2011-11?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29#ixzz1eYnbHItQ

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New Tweets Per Second Record: Women’s World Cup Soccer Final

We have written about Tweets per second records before – we spotted this today:

“After an epic run, the U.S. women’s soccer team succumbed to Japan today in the final of the Women’s World Cup tournament. And if you were paying attention to your Twitter stream today, you may have seen an influx of Tweets about the game, which ended in a penalty shootout. Twitter just Tweeted that the Women’s World Cup final scored a new record with 7,196 Tweets per second. Even U.S. President Barack Obama joined in Tweeting about the game. And from the Tweet, “today’s end to the Paraguay/Brazil game is now 2nd with 7,666 TPS.”

Statistics Source: TC

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London Olympics: 20 Million Applications For 6.6 Million Tickets

We spotted this statistic on the London 2012 olympics:

“About 1.8 million people made more than 20 million applications for the 6.6 million tickets.

Standard prices range from £20 to £2,012 – the top ticket for the opening ceremony – and oversubscribed events will be decided by a ballot.

Ticket allocation is completely random, so some unlucky applicants might end up without any, while others may be allocated all the tickets they applied for.

A further two million tickets for the Paralympic Games go on sale on 9 September.”

Statistics Source: BBC News

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Indians Spent 1500 Years On CricInfo Website During ICC World Cup 2011

We were spotting some India Internet and Mobile Statistics when we came across this stunning statistics:

“Indian visitors spent a total of 807,200,000 minutes on EspnCricInfo.com during the 2011 ICC World Cup – which adds up to more than 1500 years”

Statistics Source: TheNextWeb

However, these numbers are not even close to Angry Bird numbers. We had written about Angry Bird Statistics before, focussing on the time spent playing Angry Bird.

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Yankees: 21000 Fans’ Personal Data Leaked

This is turning out to be the Data leak week. After the Sony Playstation Network stolen accounts, we spotted this statistic today –

“A sales rep for the New York Yankees accidentally e-mailed a spreadsheet containing names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and seat numbers of more than 21,000 season ticket holders to thousands of clients, according to blog site Deadspin.

“There are no credit card numbers, but there are account ID numbers. And on Yankees.com, licensees need only their account ID number and password to access their accounts,” the report said yesterday. “With the spreadsheet, we have all the account IDs and can probably guess more than a few passwords via spouse’s names, street names, and good old ‘abc123.’ At the very least, the list email addresses are valuable to spammers.”

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20058500-245.html#ixzz1KtZLCsac

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$500 Million Gambled Away In Indo-Pak World Cup Semi-Final

We spotted this stat today:

“The money gambled on cricket now is astronomical, and if former International Cricket Council (ICC) CEO Malcolm Speed is to be believed, at least 500 million dollars was gambled away during the recent World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan in Mohali , India. ”

Statistics Source: Economic Times

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ICC World Cup 2011 Final: Rs 2.3 to 2.4 Million For A 10 Second Slot

“Official broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is charging Rs 23-24 lakh for a 10-second slot from last-minute advertisers. Broadcasters sell a part — usually up to 10 per cent — ad slots just before an event to cash in on any possible spike in demand. The ad rates for the final are five-six times the Rs 3.5-4 lakh that ESS charged for the league matches and almost double the Rs 13 lakh advertisers paid for the final match of the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL-3) last year.”

Statistics Source: SaveOnDish

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