Yunus’s Three Zero speech got highest viewership in the opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympics
According to a Toshiba report published on Yahoo News Japan, the highest number of TV viewers during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was at the time of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus's “Three Zeros” speech, following his acceptance of the Olympic Laurel. According to the report, Japanese TV viewers were listening to his speech on 47 percent of all TV sets in Japan.
Toshiba's viewer monitoring was based on the sample size of 340,000 TV sets in Japan. This programme calculates the audience rating every second. According to it, the audience rating rose to 10 percent of TV sets in the first 10 minutes of the opening ceremony broadcast. Number of viewers continued to rise until it reached the peak during Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus's speech. At the time Japanese audien...