“It has been replaced by other things like video games and e-sports and Snapchat feeds.” (According to an NBC spokesperson, however, many younger people are still viewing the games on television. “Sports is less ingrained in the younger demographic,” one analyst told Bloomberg. But sports events also tend to attract older audiences, while advertisers seek to appeal to younger viewers. Live sports like the Super Bowl are among the most-viewed televised events. NBC and Comcast’s $12 billion purchase of exclusive rights to the Olympics-which they hold until 2032-seemed like a relatively safe bet. According to NBC Olympics, 84 million people have tuned into NBC’s Website and its NBC Sports app, with 3 billion total streams. The network tells Bloomberg that streaming on its own platforms is up 24 percent compared to the London Olympics. Instead of tuning in during primetime, young people can get updates on social media in ways they didn’t in 2012 (NBC, for instance, has partnered with Buzzfeed on an Olympics Snapchat Discover channel this year). Millennials, not surprisingly, are partially to blame: Olympics viewing ratings are down 25 percent among 18-to-49-year-old viewers. According to NBC Olympics, prime-time viewership across all of its networks carrying the games, and its platforms, is only down nine percent from 2012. The numbers, however, aren't quite as simple to parse. According to Bloomberg, prime-time viewership has fallen 17 percent compared to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
“We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent,” he worried, predicting that such a scenario would be the fault of Snapchat-addled millennials. For NBCUniversal chief executive Steve Burke, it may resemble the “nightmare” that Bloomberg notes he described at a conference in June come to life.
The teen’s findings, which he will present at Brazil's 2017 International Science fair, will be published in a scientific journal.Not even the Ryan Lochte sideshow that has captured the world’s attention this week is enough to save the summer Olympics prime-time ratings in Rio. “It would be the culmination of my three years of work and the dream of my life,” Gadoury told the Canadian outlet. The Journal de Montréal reported that archaeologists have promised the 15-year-old they would bring him along on their excavations. La Rocque shared that Gadoury’s technique could prove useful to archaeologists searching for other Mayan cities. "If we add these together, we have a lot of indication there might be a Mayan city in the area." "A square is not natural, it is mostly artificial and can hardly be attributed to natural phenomena,” he told the Independent. Armand La Rocque of the University of New Brunswick explained that one image showed a street design and a large square, which could be a pyramid. "There are linear features that would suggest there is something underneath that big canopy," he said, adding, “There are enough items to suggest it could be a man-made structure."ĭr. The Kukulcan temple, also known as El Castillo, is a step pyramid dominating the Chichen Itza archaeological site - a complex built by the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan Peninsula. Thankfully, one curious teen found the challenge worth pursuing.ĭe Lisle added that satellite scans of the area show linear features that "stuck out." Gadoury named the city K'aak Chi, or “Mouth of Fire.” K'aak Chi, which has yet to be explored, is located in the Yucatan jungle.ĭaniel De Lisle of the Canadian Space Agency told the Independent that due to the area’s dense vegetation, it has been a challenge to study. gOjpy5s2ge- Altri Mondi Gazzetta May 10, 2016 William #Gadoury, 15 anni, scopre un’antica città Maya grazie a mappe e all'astronomia. “I was really surprised and excited when I realized that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,” Gadoury told the Journal de Montréal.īut after studying the star map in greater depth, Gadoury noticed that one city, which theoretically should have aligned with a constellation of three stars, appeared to be missing. The historic Maya manuscript “Codex Dresdensis” comprises hieroglyphics, numbers and pictures and holds calendars, accounts on stellar constellation, lunar and solar eclipses as well as weather forecasts. After testing his theory, the teen found that these cities lined up precisely with stars in major Mayan constellations. Gadoury came up with the theory that the Mayan people chose the location of their towns and cities based on their civilization’s star constellations. William Gadoury of Quebec told Canadian media that he studied Mayan astronomy and satellite photos to confirm his finding. A 15-year-old Canadian astronomer is believed to have discovered a forgotten Mayan city using an original technique he developed himself.