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BBC: Olympic closing ceremony draws 26.3M viewers

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LONDON (AP) — The BBC said Monday that its live coverage of the Olympic closing ceremony was watched by 26.3 million people in the U.K., or more than 80 percent of the country’s audience share.

The broadcaster said in a statement that coverage on its flagship terrestrial channel, BBC1, peaked at 26 million on Sunday night, easily beating the previous U.K. audience record for an Olympic closing ceremony — the 11 million viewers who watched the ceremony in Barcelona in 1992. The BBC’s high-definition and 3D coverage Sunday added another 300,000 viewers.

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