Editing 2006 Winter Olympics (section)

===Ratings and attendance===
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A number of events reported low spectator attendance despite having acceptable ticket sales.<!-- citation needed, although is a personal opinion --> Preliminary competition and locally less popular sports failed to attract capacity crowd as expected. Organizers explained this was because blocks of seats were reserved or purchased by sponsors and partners who later did not show up at the events.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

Several news organizations reported that many Americans were not as interested in the Olympics as in years past.<ref name="Interest">{{cite news|title=Ciao to the Winter Games |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022600137_pf.html |date=26 February 2006 |author=Shipley, Amy |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105125306/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022600137_pf.html |archive-date=5 November 2012 |url-status=live  }}</ref> It has been suggested that reasons for this lack of interest include the [[Broadcast delay|tape delayed]] coverage, which showed events in prime-time as much as 18 hours later in the Western United States.<ref name="Ratings">{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter06/columns/story?id=2345588 |title=The best, and real, drama is always at Olympics |date=26 February 2006 |publisher=[[ESPN]] |author=Caple, Jim |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207030153/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter06/columns/story?id=2345588 |archive-date=7 December 2011 |url-status=live  }}</ref>  Primetime viewing figures in Canada were also disappointing, especially after the early exit of the Canadian men's hockey team,<ref name="Canada ratings 2">{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxolyblues0223_3/BNStory/Torino2006/home |title=Olympic hockey loss misses the net for CBC ratings |author1=McArthur, Keith |author2=Robertson, Grant |date=23 February 2006 |access-date=19 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124113816/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060223.wxolyblues0223_3/BNStory/Torino2006/home |archive-date=24 January 2016 |url-status=dead |location=Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail  }}</ref> though overall viewing figures were up from 2002.<ref name="Canada ratings">{{cite news |title=Olympics lose against fake games |author=Brioux, Bill |date=23 February 2006 }}</ref>