diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/rudo.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/rudo.py
index f036f6757..3819f6186 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/rudo.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/rudo.py
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ class RudoIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id, encoding='iso-8859-1')
 
-        jwplayer_data = self._parse_json(self._search_regex(
-            r'(?s)playerInstance\.setup\(({.+?})\)', webpage, 'jwplayer data'), video_id,
+        jwplayer_data = self._parse_json(re.sub('events: {(.|\n)*},\nabouttext', 'abouttext', 
+            self._search_regex(r'(?s)playerInstance\.setup\(({.+?})\)', webpage, 'jwplayer data')), video_id,
             transform_source=lambda s: js_to_json(re.sub(r'encodeURI\([^)]+\)', '""', s)))
 
         info_dict = self._parse_jwplayer_data(