Olympics
From Staff and Wire Reports
Atlanta, site of the 1996 Summer Olympics, ranked 24th among the 25 largest U.S. cities in viewers of the Barcelona Games on television, according to figures released by Nielsen Media Research.
Atlanta averaged a 13.6 prime-time rating on WXIA-TV, 22% percent below the national rating of 17.5 on NBC.
The top rating was in Portland, Ore., at 22.5. Chicago got a 21.6, while Los Angeles a was at 21.0 and New York an at 18.5.
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