Despite high levels of criticism over its coverage NBC’s Olympic’s have become the most-watched TV event in US history.

The success of its coverage matched that of the BBC which delivered the biggest national television event since current measuring systems began with 51.9m or 90% of the UK population watching at least 15 minutes of coverage.

NBC said that 219m people watched London 2012 Games with an average of 31 million viewers watching Sunday’s closing ceremony. Read more on NBC London 2012 is most watched in US history as criticism mounts of zero Paralympic coverage…