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NBC’s Broadcast of Beijing Olympics Ceremony Draws Record-Low Ratings

NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony drew a record-low number of viewers as compared with previous years, with a total of just 16 million tuning in on Feb. 4. That figure is down about 43 percent from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, when about 28.3 million people watched, according to…


Lawmakers Ask NBC About CCP Influence on Winter Olympics Coverage

Two GOP lawmakers want to know whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has influenced NBCUniversal’s coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Given China’s history of censorship and government control, and the fact that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stands to benefit financially from NBCUniversal’s coverage of the games, we are concerned about the extent of…


US Lawmakers Ask NBC About CCP Influence on Winter Olympics Coverage

Two Republican U.S. lawmakers want to know if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will have influence over NBCUniversal’s coverage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. “Given China’s history of censorship and government control, and the fact that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stands to benefit financially from NBCUniversal’s coverage of the games, we are concerned…


China’s Global Ambitions and Its African Port; Chinese Student Targeted at Purdue by CCP

A Chinese student at Purdue University was harassed by pro-CCP students. But the university is fighting back against Chinese Communist Party influence. This is raising an alert to campuses across the country to look at their own potential problems of infiltration from Beijing. The United States added 34 Chinese firms to a blacklist over human…


Nick Sandmann Reaches Settlement With NBC

Nicholas Sandmann announced he has reached a settlement with NBCUniversal after more than two years since Sandmann filed a defamation lawsuit against the media company. “At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement. The terms are confidential,” the 19-year-old Kentucky teen wrote on Twitter. The two parties agreed to…


Nicholas Sandmann Reaches Settlement With NBC

Nicholas Sandmann has announced that he’s reached a settlement with NBCUniversal after more than two years since he filed a defamation lawsuit against the media company. “At this time I would like to release that NBC and I have reached a settlement. The terms are confidential,” the 19-year-old Kentucky teen wrote on Twitter. The two parties…


NBC Asked to Drop Beijing Olympics Broadcast, Spotlight CCP’s Rights Abuses

NBCUniversal should drop its broadcast of the Beijing Winter Olympics that is just two months away and instead turn the limelight toward the regime’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, U.S. lawmakers told the broadcaster. “The nearly one billion dollars that NBCUniversal and its affiliates have invested in these Games means the organization…


15 Human Rights Groups Urge NBC Not to Broadcast 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

SAN FRANCISCO—15 human rights groups gathered outside the NBC Sports office in San Francisco on Friday, Dec. 10 to call on the station not to air the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In light of Human Rights Day, the groups—comprised of Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Chinese Democracy, and other human rights campaign…


NBC Producers Signal They Were Trying to Find Homes of Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Jurors

A man who was stopped while following a bus carrying Kyle Rittenhouse trial jurors last month told police officers that he was ordered to do so by his superiors and signaled the goal was to learn where the jurors lived, according to newly released body camera footage and a police report. A Kenosha, Wisconsin police…


Tokyo Olympics End With Closing Ceremony, as Ratings See Decline

The International Olympics Committee declared the Tokyo Olympics officially closed, with officials claiming the Games were a success despite the pandemic. A closing ceremony with the theme “Worlds We Share”—and the rest of the Olympics—was held in the middle of a resurging COVID-19 pandemic and has been rejected by many Japanese citizens. At these Games,…