Closing ceremony draws 2nd-highest TV audience of Olympic Games

The television audience for the live broadcast of the Olympic Games closing ceremony peaked at 46.7 percent of viewers in Tokyo and surrounding areas and 41.3 percent in another metropolitan area centering on Osaka in the west, according to a survey released Tuesday.The Sunday night broadcast of the closing ceremony by NHK drew the second-highest viewership of the games, behind only the July 23 opening ceremony, according to Video Research Ltd.Viewership for the opening ceremony averaged 56.4 percent in the capital and surrounding areas, the highest for the event since the previous Tokyo Ol…READ FULL ARTICLE