Talk:2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony

More info please!
This article has had a very poor start, at the moment the page is really just a summary of what happened in the early summer I'm a lot more details and references need to be added to make this page look at lots more respectable. Some photos would also be very useful to have in the article summary of the Queens button relay and also the performances by John Barrowman and etc. (90.207.179.244 (talk) 09:21, 24 July 2014 (UTC))
 * No, it's had a slow start, not a very poor one. What do you mean "early summer"? It was on 23 July. John Barrowman is mentioned. I think you mean "baton" not "button"? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:40, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merger
Any reason 2014 Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations shouldn't me merged here? It was a part of opening ceremony and there isn't much point in keeping it separate. Both articles are pretty short so it wouldn't be bloated. Hydromania (talk) 10:46, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Bump, if anyone has this on their watchlist. Hydromania (talk) 03:18, 18 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I have no objection. However this article is only on my watchlist because I went to the opening ceremony, and I don't know how articles about other sporting opening ceremonies are arranged. AlasdairW (talk) 21:01, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I note that we have:
 * 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony and 2018 Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations
 * 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (but not separate parade page; used 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony)
 * 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (but not separate parade page; used 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony)
 * So, switching to one page won't make 2014 and outlier, and will make it consistent with earlier years. So, on balance, support the merge as the split doesn't seem to be justified; then propose the same for 2018. Klbrain (talk) 15:26, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Querying the TV viewership figure of 'an estimated one billion'
I understand this is cited with a Telegraph article, but it can't possibly be true.

The London Olympics Opening Ceremony, two years earlier and an undoubtedly higher profile event by orders of magnitude, attracted a global viewership of 342 million (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-ioc-broadcast-idCAKCN10S1ZX). The record viewership for an Olympic OC appears to have been Beijing 2008, which attracted more than a billion - many of whom it can be assumed were watching from China (a country of 1.325 billion people at the time), this having been one of the highest profile national events in their modern history.

Compare this also with the 2014 World Cup Final which attracted 562 million global viewers (https://www.statista.com/chart/16875/super-bowl-viewership-vs-world-cup-final/), and the 2014 Super Bowl, which was viewd by 160 million worldwide (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nfl-international-idUSKBN0KX0KK20150124).

I can't understand how the opening ceremony of a sporting competition contested by fewer than half the world's countries attracted twice as many viewers as the world cup final. And given that the broadcast began at 1:30am India Standard Time, I think it's unlikely that the largest country in the Commonwealth contributed many of these supposed viewers.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think this statement warrants closer scrutiny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:4780:C100:C922:65E2:E96C:181C (talk) 21:28, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * A big question is "who counts as a viewer"? Obviously those who watched all or most of the ceremony count, and probably also those that watched a repeat / edited highlights later in the day. But do those who saw 1 minute of the ceremony in the evening news? For comparison, the London Olympics Opening Ceremony may have had 342 million viewers, but the article also says that "3.6 billion people around the world watched at least one minute" of the games. Unfortunately the telegraph article is behind a paywall, so I can't see what details they gave.
 * The Scottish Government Report on the games legacy says "It is estimated that the global audience reached by the Games was over 1 billion worldwide through a range of international television and radio channels.", which looks like it is a figure to compare with 3.6 billion for the London Olympics. AlasdairW (talk) 21:35, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The Telegraph article states "with the Queen waiting and an estimated one billion people around the world watching, Prince Imran of Malaysia was unable to open the baton that contained the message the monarch had placed inside". With respect to your quote from the Scot Gov report, when they say the global audience for the games was over 1 billion, is that for the entire games, or the opening ceremony? Even if we accept a definition which includes anybody who saw even a glimpse of the opening ceremony, I'm highly skeptical that a figure of one billion viewers could be reached. I think at the very least the statement on the page requires some qualification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:4780:C100:C82E:CD59:3D93:F286 (talk) 23:28, 31 January 2021 (UTC)