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This article has had a very poor start, at the moment the page is really just a summary of what happened in the early summer I'm a lot more details and references need to be added to make this page look at lots more respectable. Some photos would also be very useful to have in the article summary of the Queens button relay and also the performances by John Barrowman and etc. ( 90.207.179.244 ( talk) 09:21, 24 July 2014 (UTC))
Any reason 2014 Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations shouldn't me merged here? It was a part of opening ceremony and there isn't much point in keeping it separate. Both articles are pretty short so it wouldn't be bloated. Hydromania ( talk) 10:46, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Bump, if anyone has this on their watchlist. Hydromania ( talk) 03:18, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I understand this is cited with a Telegraph article, but it can't possibly be true.
The London Olympics Opening Ceremony, two years earlier and an undoubtedly higher profile event by orders of magnitude, attracted a global viewership of 342 million ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-ioc-broadcast-idCAKCN10S1ZX). The record viewership for an Olympic OC appears to have been Beijing 2008, which attracted more than a billion - many of whom it can be assumed were watching from China (a country of 1.325 billion people at the time), this having been one of the highest profile national events in their modern history.
Compare this also with the 2014 World Cup Final which attracted 562 million global viewers ( https://www.statista.com/chart/16875/super-bowl-viewership-vs-world-cup-final/), and the 2014 Super Bowl, which was viewd by 160 million worldwide ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nfl-international-idUSKBN0KX0KK20150124).
I can't understand how the opening ceremony of a sporting competition contested by fewer than half the world's countries attracted twice as many viewers as the world cup final. And given that the broadcast began at 1:30am India Standard Time, I think it's unlikely that the largest country in the Commonwealth contributed many of these supposed viewers.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think this statement warrants closer scrutiny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:4780:C100:C922:65E2:E96C:181C ( talk) 21:28, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
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This article has had a very poor start, at the moment the page is really just a summary of what happened in the early summer I'm a lot more details and references need to be added to make this page look at lots more respectable. Some photos would also be very useful to have in the article summary of the Queens button relay and also the performances by John Barrowman and etc. ( 90.207.179.244 ( talk) 09:21, 24 July 2014 (UTC))
Any reason 2014 Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations shouldn't me merged here? It was a part of opening ceremony and there isn't much point in keeping it separate. Both articles are pretty short so it wouldn't be bloated. Hydromania ( talk) 10:46, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Bump, if anyone has this on their watchlist. Hydromania ( talk) 03:18, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I understand this is cited with a Telegraph article, but it can't possibly be true.
The London Olympics Opening Ceremony, two years earlier and an undoubtedly higher profile event by orders of magnitude, attracted a global viewership of 342 million ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-ioc-broadcast-idCAKCN10S1ZX). The record viewership for an Olympic OC appears to have been Beijing 2008, which attracted more than a billion - many of whom it can be assumed were watching from China (a country of 1.325 billion people at the time), this having been one of the highest profile national events in their modern history.
Compare this also with the 2014 World Cup Final which attracted 562 million global viewers ( https://www.statista.com/chart/16875/super-bowl-viewership-vs-world-cup-final/), and the 2014 Super Bowl, which was viewd by 160 million worldwide ( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nfl-international-idUSKBN0KX0KK20150124).
I can't understand how the opening ceremony of a sporting competition contested by fewer than half the world's countries attracted twice as many viewers as the world cup final. And given that the broadcast began at 1:30am India Standard Time, I think it's unlikely that the largest country in the Commonwealth contributed many of these supposed viewers.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think this statement warrants closer scrutiny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:4780:C100:C922:65E2:E96C:181C ( talk) 21:28, 24 January 2021 (UTC)