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Comcast’s NBCU books $250 million in profit from Rio Olympics coverage

September 14, 2016 | By Reuters
Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony

(Reuters) – NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp, said the company booked more than $250 million in profit from the Rio Olympics coverage, helped by strong advertising sales.

Advertising sales rose more than 20 percent to $1.2 billion, compared with the 2012 London Olympics, NBC Universal Chief Executive Steve Burke said on Wednesday.

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Despite a drop in viewership, NBC had said in August that it could top the $120 million profit that it had recorded from the 2012 Olympics coverage.

Comcast has paid about $12 billion for the U.S. rights to broadcast Olympics Games through 2032.

NBC had lost as much as $200 million from certain broadcasts in the past, Burke said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2016 Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference.

Shares of Comcast were marginally higher at $65.23 in afternoon trading on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Rishika Sadam in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva)

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