Today of all days you are really having this discussion? really? The thread has just moved from discussing a once in a lifetime event to a once per week topic!

BBC Three will come of age this week and be treat for the first in similar terms to how BBC2 is to BBC1 normally.

It won't have any long term effect when they return to their usual schedule but I expect people will be pressing 7 more regularly than they ever have been.

I am - but BBC Three's figures need to have BBC HD included, I've watched a lot of stuff there today. They should of just called it BBC3 HD as they've had BBC3 idents, trails etc today.

Sadly NBC's decision to delay it seems to always be vindicated by the numbers.


No British medal on day one puts a bit of a downer on it.

BTW, will the officials take out all the breaks they're bloody taking for trailers and unnecessary daytime editions of 60 Seconds?

Loving Gary Lineker's Saturday night chat show on BBC1. To the Team GB woman footballer who missed the Games due to pregnancy: "So are you regretting that now?"



Pure Partridge. But if it rates well...

The men's road race, one of the things I was most looking forward to, was a big letdown as most of the peloton decided to amble along on a Sunday ride rather than close in on the breakaway and give Team GB a chance of home glory. So folk may have drifted away before the end. It also finished 40 mins sooner than the papers predicted, so I don't think the big number I expected at teatime will have materialised.

I suspect though the climax of the road race will easily outrate the climax of the Tour de France, which should please you Robbie.

Phelps v Lochte the highlight of day one really, but I expect Rebecca Adlington tomorrow to set the early sporting benchmark ratings wise.

That was a jaw dropping moment.

Yeah, not winning a single medal on day one is a bit disheartening. "This is the best, strongest team we've ever sent to an Olympics, we expect them to deliver" is the message from Sport UK. £100 million per year (more money than ever before) has been invested into the Olympics team. If they buckle under pressure whilst at a home Olympics, the publics interest in this Olympic Games and future ones will waver and investments into the team will decrease.

Lineker interviewing Amir Khan wasn't great either, you got the feeling Khan didn't really know what he was talking about.

It's notable that the 7-10pm slot was seperate with no handover from the previous show, as if to show that this is the main flagship show. Sue wrapped up her show with closing titles, trailers, ident & titles into Gary's show.

Earlier in the day the seperate 'programmes' were merged into one, besides the news breaks.

Everybody I know is watching 24 Olympic channels picking up the sport that they want to watch. Even my Dad (83) rang tonight to say he had given up with BBC 1 when it had tennis on & turned over to them & couldn't believe how brilliant it is. He says he'll pick up the highlights at night otherwise he'll decide what to watch sport to watch during day & stick with it.

I imagine NBC will be delighted with the ratings for the Opening Ceremony. I believe they're going to take a hit with the 2012 Olympics but in the long term they'll make money from both the Winter Olympics in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016 which will be closer in terms of time zone as Rio is only 1 hour behind in the East Coast which means the bulk of the NBC lineup will be live thus increasing ad revenue and ratings and the BBC will still be able to show some events in primetime as the different between UK and Rio is only 4 hours although I imagine major events like swimming and althetics will be shown after midnight.

Australian ratings

The 9.30 showing of Fresh Prince of Bel Air wins the day with over 2m viewers, though a certain event overrunning may explain why

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/07/...s-numbers.html

1.7m watched the opening ceremony live from 6am, 1.3m watched teh afternoon repeat. The first day of action got 1.96m in early evening, presumably this is 6.30pm-8pm but not entirely sure, over 450,000 watched overnight.

Australia is not the best example though, firstly its Winter and secondly sport matters more, but looking at the figures in the article Channel 9 must be chuffed

I imagine Nine could only show a couple of events live due to the time difference, a lot of the prime events like swimmings will be on in the morning.

That's a stunning figure for the Opening Ceremony; I didn't expect it to be that high considering the late finish. No other channel stood a chance last night but I don't think Big Brother disgraced itself despite hitting it's lowest viewing figure ever. Vera was basically being burned off and I'm sure ITV expected a drubbing - they'll be satisfied that Coronation Street held above 6m though the share looks low. The Million Pound Drop suffered The Million Viewer Drop, suffering from the same stupidity that saw The Big Sports Quiz being pitched against a live sports event on Thursday night. Gardener's World is a credit to BBC Two with a decent rating, even if it did air before the main ceremony began.

No everything is shown live between 645pm and 9am the next morning. But between 6and 9am the normal time for Breakfast TV there was a lot oof recapping andighlights this morning. The big primetime events if shown at 9pm or later UK time it is likely people will see them as they get ready for work

JohnWilliams004
Day1 peaks at 8.7m #Olympics2012
9:37 AM - 29 Jul 12

Fantastic peak.

Superb. Would be interesting to see the average.

Peak was at 20:20 according to Sam Hodges and appears to be BBC One only.

Fairly significant if BBC Three had ~2m at a guess.

That's stunning really on what will probably prove to be the quietest night of the fortnight. The peak came for the women's 400m individual medley final featuring Hannah Miley.

Could we hit 10m tonight for Becky Adlington at 8.15?

BBC Media Centre's first daily bulletin from yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/med...at-28-jul.html

All Day Shares inc +1's
BBC One - 29.9%
ITV1 - 6.7%
BBC Three - 6.4%
Channel 4 - 4.9%
BBC Two - 4.0%
ITV2 - 3.2%
Channel 5 - 3.1%

Source: C4 Sales

I believe that's an all-time low for ITV, and obviously 6.4% is a record multichannel all-day share I would have thought.

They must really be loosing the advertisers?
Must be the lowest day of people watching TV ever last night?

From Sam Hodges: BBC3 averaged 879k between 9am and 11pm. Over 1m from 6-10pm.

So assuming it had 1.3m at some point in the 20:00 hour, it must have, that means a combined peak of 10m watching Olympic action. Wow!