"2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics" Women's Curling, Highest Ratings of 9.4%..All the channels are number one

*This content was translated by AI.

With the gold finale of the women's short track team to regain the pride of the "strongest country in relay" coming to an end, snowboard Yoo Seung-eun will take on the great challenge of "two gold medals in one competition" for the first time in snow sports.

The women's curling preliminary match for the "2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics" broadcast by JTBC on the 17th recorded an average viewership of 5.9% for households in the metropolitan area and a maximum of 9.4% per minute based on Nielsen Korea's paid households. In particular, the audience rating of the Seoul Metropolitan Area Target (2049), a key indicator of advertisers, recorded an average of 2.4 percent and a maximum of 4.0 percent, proudly topping all programs aired yesterday, proving JTBC's channel competitiveness once again.

Viewers' attention was also focused on JTBC's "Newsroom," which delivers the fastest and most accurate news of the Olympics. The "Olympic Special JTBC Newsroom," which aired on the 17th, recorded an average viewership of 5.7% for households in the metropolitan area and 7.8% for the highest viewership per minute, ranking first among all channel main news programs based on households in the metropolitan area.

The Korean women's curling team lost 5-7 to Switzerland, the "world's No. 1," recording 4 wins and 3 losses in the preliminary round. The South Korean women's curling team, which has an emergency light on the semifinal front, will now compete with Sweden and Canada, which have nowhere to retreat. As of 4:40 p.m. on the 18th, the women's curling team will first play the eighth match of the preliminary round against Sweden, which is leading alone.

Yoo Seung-eun, who wrote a new history of Korean snow with a snowboard big air bronze medal, will also challenge for the grand prize of multi-medal at 9:30 p.m. on the 18th. The snowboard women's slopestyle final, which was originally scheduled to take place the day before, will be postponed by a day due to record heavy snow in the Lvigno region. Despite the unexpected schedule change, the world's attention is focusing on whether Yoo Seung-eun will be able to maintain her composure and win Korea's first multi-medal in one event.

The Korean women's short track team aims to recapture the world's top for the seventh time in the 3,000-meter relay final at 4:15 a.m. on the 19th (Thursday). The biggest point to watch is whether the women's short track team, which ranked first in the group with Choi Min-jeong's decisive in-course overtaking and Kim Ki-li's neat finish in the semifinals, will regain the dignity of the "strongest relay country," which has harvested six gold medals out of eight Olympics in history against the Netherlands and Canada. The cheering heat is at its peak with the perfect organizational power and speed of our team, which dreams of running gold once again beyond the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Meanwhile, in the women's short program in figure skating, Lee Hae-in broke the season's best record and Shin Ji-ah qualified for free skating in 9th place, and Shin Ji-ah in 14th place despite jumping mistakes. The Korean team's relentless medal race, which continues regardless of the event, is foreshadowing an unceasing victory.

Yesterday, when the fighting spirit of Taegeuk Warriors shone, JTBC swept all channels with 2.4% of target viewership in the Seoul metropolitan area and 6.0% of paid households during prime time (20-24:00). The daily ranking for the entire time zone (06-25:00) also rose to the top with a target of 1.0% and a paid household of 3.3%.

<© STARNEWS. All rights reserved. No reproduction or redistribution allowed.>

*This content was translated by AI.