The ratings for August 17 came out quickly in the early hours of the morning, and all TV networks in North America have Nielsen statistical instruments, which can get the data in almost real time, but if you calculate and compare the huge amount of data such as the Olympics, it will take some time, so the final data will not come out until the morning of the 18th US time.

On this day, the ratings of the Pirate Channel's Olympic program reached a staggering 25.8, and the viewing population exceeded 35 million...... This can only be described as terrifying...... The television industry and entertainment media throughout North America are shaken.

Sports fans went into a frenzy, with Phelps, who won his eighth gold, becoming a true American legend, and his every move in a special interview with the Pirate Stations after the victory was watched nationwide, and the ratings for this exclusive interview even surpassed the Grammy Awards ceremony.

"Hey, Mina, you've really picked up a big bargain, do you know? A week ago, you bought this interview right for $1.2 million, and now it costs at least $12 million~~," Phelps' agent, Peter Hank, complained on the phone.

"Yes, we are lucky in the Pirate Table, but maybe we brought good luck to Phelps." Mina laughed over the phone.

"Yes, I really don't know what to do, why would you make an appointment for an interview after the 4x100m medley relay final, you know, if you don't win the championship in this race, your interview will be meaningless." Peter Hank scratched his head and couldn't figure it out.

Yes, everyone can't figure it out, even NBC's sports market analysis department can't figure it out, Rick Wharton, who was blamed by many people at the meeting, angrily slapped the case in the meeting and yelled at the management of all sports market analysis departments:

"You bastards~!! What is the concept that Phelps won eight gold medals to break the record is 2.5 per thousand!? The result? An exclusive interview with the pirate station actually stole half of the audience of our softball finals!! ”

It sounds like Rick Wharton is arguing with words, but he does feel that he has been wronged, and he has not only been cheated by his sports market analysis department, but also by the American women's softball team......

The U.S. women's softball team, which has won two consecutive Olympic championships, lost to the Japanese team in the final, and when the Japanese team led 2-0 halfway through the game, the ratings of 17.7 instantly dropped to the freezing point of 9.8...... The lowest point since 1980 is that softball will be withdrawn from the next Olympics in London due to lack of support from the Olympic Organising Committee, which may be the last appearance of softball at the Olympics and the last gold medal won by the Japanese, which is simply a shame.

And now across the United States, Phelps fever, led by the pirate station, has reached its peak.

"We're in front of the ticket office of a swimming pool in Philadelphia, and even though it's only 10 a.m., it's like a party." On the CBS news program, on the TV screen, a middle-aged black male reporter holds a microphone and speaks to the camera:

"These young people are here to enter this swimming pool to learn to swim, because the morning tickets have been sold out, and they are all waiting for the afternoon tickets to go on sale."

As soon as the screen camera turned, I saw a long queue outside the swimming pool, those young people with a healthy body and a sunny temperament, reading books, playing cards, playing mobile phones, and even some were doing push-ups in place.

The black reporter walked a few steps, called out to a beautiful Latina with dyed red hair who had just been plump, pointed the microphone at him, and asked with a smile, "Hi, hello, are you here to learn to swim?" The Latino beauty in her twenties excitedly said "yes, yes" to the camera, and the female reporter asked, "Why are you so eager to learn to swim?" Girls should have a lot of other activities. ”

Before the Latina beauty could speak, the brown-skinned fat girl next to her squeezed over and shouted:

"Hey~~ We don't want to learn to swim, it's just that Phelps is too handsome to watch on TV, and we think that the boy who learns to swim is very healthy and cheerful, and is suitable for being a boyfriend, so we want to find out here to see if there is any sunny boy we can date~!"

"Fiona~! You guy, why did you say it~! It's a TV interview! The Latino beauty laughed and scolded, embarrassed to pull her friend away from the camera's sight.

The program director cut the picture back to the live broadcast room, and the host said with a smile: "During the Olympic Games, in many cities in the east, the swimming pools were full, in fact, most of the participants were students aged 15 to 23 during the summer vacation, and we can listen to the opinions of parents and the police on this."

As soon as the screen turned, it cut to the interview video of a chubby middle-aged white woman, who looked angry and said helplessly and angrily:

"My child is clamoring to go to the swimming pool every day to learn to swim, saying that he wants to be as strong as Phelps, but I don't think he likes swimming at all, he just takes this opportunity to meet girls, the media really beautifies Phelps, resulting in many adolescent girls in the pool, which is really ridiculous~~ Many of them are under the age of 18 and wear bikinis~!"

The camera then cuts to an interview with an Asian male police officer, who said solemnly: "It's the first time I've seen too many young people gather near the swimming pool, and they're all wearing swimsuits." However, I think the situation is completely understandable after Phelps won eight gold medals, and there seems to be no problem with law and order for the time being. ”

CBS was actually very embarrassed because they couldn't use any of the Olympics Phelps videos when they were covering all of this, because for every second they used, the price was $120,000...... In their opinion, the pirate table is simply a money grab, but what can be done......

If you want to see Phelps, it's very simple, go to the pirate station, whether it's the Olympics or the social issues caused by legendary athletes, everyone has to go to the pirate station to see what happened.

All the relevant media are denouncing the monopoly behavior of the pirate station, and even the well-known American basketball sports godfather Nevin Chapero is very dissatisfied with this:

"This is a complete fascist style, he should let us share the video for free, I don't understand, how could Phelps sign with such a person!?"

While other stations couldn't even show a single footage, the Pirate station aired video footage of Phelps' interview throughout the day, which was a huge humiliation for anyone from any of the big four networks.

But no matter how you scold, and the pirate station that exclusively broadcasts the Olympics is still soaring, people thought that after Phelps won 8 golds, the enthusiasm of Americans to watch the game would gradually decline, but no one expected that another Olympic hero appeared.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt quickly became the darling of the world's spectators in a matter of days, this lanky black man, on August 20, flying on the 200-meter track, when he flew over the finish line like lightning, people looked at the time of 19.30 seconds with their mouths wide open, and witnessed the birth of a new record, the 100-meter, 200-meter double champion, and broke the conference record at the same time!? This guy is a miracle of the Creator!

At the same time, a new idol has been born to all of humanity.

And three days later, when Usain Bolt laughed wildly at the end of the 4×100-meter track and made a shooting gesture to the sky, the whole world stared at him like a fool - is this person really still a species on our planet?

And when all the media think about Bolt's interview, they find that like Phelps, his interview has already been bought out by a media outlet, the same Pirate TV station...... They signed an exclusive interview deal, and Bolt was not authorized to be interviewed by other media outlets.

This also means that if you want to broadcast Bolt's interview video, you have to buy it from the pirate station, and now the pirate station has become the sweet spot of the world's media, and its own ratings continue to be high, even after Phelps won the championship, it has maintained an average rating of more than 25%.

In addition to Li Xiaole, this achievement scared Mina and all the veterans of Pirate TV, and even Li Xiaole's driver Ah Gai sighed: "My company's stock is about to appreciate..."

The presence of two unprecedented superathletes at one Olympics has brought all the news-chasing media into the air, and the sports craze brought by Phelps and Usain Bolt has swept the United States.

And Li Xiaole's prediction that China's gold medal will surpass the United States and become the new gold medal list champion, look at the gold medal list~~ China has won 44 gold medals, while the United States only has a pitiful 28, Li Xiaole's prediction seems to be a foregone conclusion.

On the other hand, what Rick Wharton and NBC didn't expect was that the nightmare of the softball finals had not passed, and the disaster of their destruction had only now really come......

When the Pirate TV broadcast the interview between Bolt and Phelps all day to attract the attention of the whole American audience, NBC could only play the baseball final between the Cubans and the Koreans in a pitiful way, which is simply the biggest joke on the NBC broadcast calendar......

Rick Wharton went from being a high-ranking gold bidder to becoming a clown in the industry, which made this handsome blonde guy, his self-esteem frustrated, and before NBC could attack him, he was discouraged and took the initiative to resign, which is also the 26th management of the four major TV networks because of Li Xiaole's resignation......

Li Xiaole, this kid, is a director who creates miracles in the eyes of ordinary people, but for people in the industry, this guy is simply a plague god~!

Everyone mentions this name with a grit of teeth......