Plus BBCHD and 24 other channels of course.

Saturday 28th July 2012
BBC One
06:00 - Olympic Breakfast: 1.6m (45.9%)
09:00 - Olympics 2012: 3.4m (40.5%)
11:30 - Olympics 2012: 3.6m (38.9%)
13:00 - BBC News: 4.1m (37.8%)
13:15 - Olympics 2012: 3.6m (32.1%)
16:45 - BBC News: 3.6m (28.5%)
17:00 - Olympics 2012: 3.1m (20.5%)
19:00 - Olympics 2012: 6.3m (31.2%)
22:00 - BBC News: 5.6m (28.2%)
22:30 - Olympics Tonight: 2.3m (18.0%)
24:10 - Olympic Sportsday: 0.9m (16.2%)
24:55 - BBC News: 0.4m (12.1%)

BBC Two
13:15 - FILM: El Cid: 0.3m (2.9%)
16:15 - Escape to the Country: 0.6m (4.5%)
17:15 - F1 Qualifying: 1.5m (9.9%)
18:30 - Flog It: 1.2m (7.2%)
19:30 - Dad's Army: 1.4m (7.4%)
20:00 - BBC Proms 2012: 0.7m (3.1%)
21:30 - Barenboim on Beethoven: 0.4m (2.3%)
23:00 - TOTP2: 0.5m (4.3%)
24:00 - FILM: Jersey Girl: 0.4m (7.3%)

ITV1
09:25 - Jeremy Kyle USA: 0.4m (4.8%)
10:25 - Jeremy Kyle USA: 0.4m (3.1%)
12:30 - All Star Family Fortunes: 0.3m (2.4%)
13:15 - Dancing on Ice Goes Gold: 0.3m (2.5%)
15:15 - FILM: The Spy Who Loved Me: 0.7m (5.5%)
17:30 - Regional News: 1.4m (10.0%)
17:45 - ITV News: 1.7m (11.6%)
18:00 - Marple: 1.6m (9.1%)
20:00 - Midsomer Murders: 2.3m (10.7%)
22:00 - ITV News: 1.3m (6.6%)
22:15 - Mad Mad World: 0.6m (3.5%)

Channel 4
12:45 - The Big Bang Theory: 0.3m (3.0%)
13:20 - The Simpsons: 0.3m (2.9%)
14:00 - Channel 4 Racing: 0.4m (3.4%)
16:15 - Come Dine with Me: 0.5m (3.8%)
16:45 - Come Dine with Me: 0.8m (5.9%)
17:20 - Come Dine with Me: 1.0m (6.7%)
17:55 - Come Dine with Me: 1.2m (7.7%)
18:20 - Come Dine with Me: 1.3m (8.2%)
18:50 - Channel 4 News: 0.8m (4.9%)
19:25 - Million Pound Drop: 1.0m (4.9%)
21:00 - The Women: 1.6m (8.3%)

Channel 5
13:15 - Football on 5: 0.3m (2.6%)
17:15 - FILM: Jesse Stone: Night Passage: 0.5m (3.3%)
19:00 - NCIS: 0.7m (3.6%)
20:00 - NCIS: 0.8m (3.7%)
21:00 - Big Brother: 1.0m (4.7%)
22:00 - CSI: Miami: 1.0m (5.7%)
23:00 - CSI: 0.5m (4.8%)

Time ………. BBC1 ……………… ITV ……………… BBC2 ……………… CH4 ……………… CH5

17:00 ….. 3.4 (25.9%) ….. 1.1 ( 8.3%) ….. 0.8 ( 6.1%) ….. 0.8 ( 6.2%) ….. 0.3 ( 2.1%)
17:15 ….. 3.0 (22.0%) ….. 1.2 ( 9.0%) ….. 1.3 ( 9.3%) ….. 0.9 ( 6.4%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.6%)
17:30 ….. 2.7 (19.1%) ….. 1.5 (10.7%) ….. 1.5 (10.8%) ….. 1.0 ( 6.9%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.8%)
17:45 ….. 2.7 (18.4%) ….. 1.9 (12.4%) ….. 1.7 (11.1%) ….. 1.1 ( 7.2%) ….. 0.5 ( 3.2%)
18:00 ….. 3.1 (19.8%) ….. 1.6 (10.3%) ….. 1.7 (10.8%) ….. 1.2 ( 7.8%) ….. 0.5 ( 3.4%)
18:15 ….. 3.5 (21.9%) ….. 1.6 ( 9.7%) ….. 1.2 ( 7.6%) ….. 1.2 ( 7.5%) ….. 0.6 ( 3.4%)
18:30 ….. 3.3 (20.1%) ….. 1.5 ( 9.4%) ….. 1.0 ( 5.8%) ….. 1.4 ( 8.3%) ….. 0.6 ( 3.7%)
18:45 ….. 3.0 (18.1%) ….. 1.5 ( 9.3%) ….. 1.2 ( 6.9%) ….. 1.1 ( 6.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 4.0%)
19:00 ….. 3.7 (21.9%) ….. 1.7 ( 9.8%) ….. 1.3 ( 7.7%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.8%) ….. 0.5 ( 3.0%)
19:15 ….. 5.1 (29.1%) ….. 1.7 ( 9.8%) ….. 1.4 ( 8.3%) ….. 0.6 ( 3.6%) ….. 0.6 ( 3.4%)
19:30 ….. 6.7 (35.5%) ….. 1.7 ( 9.1%) ….. 1.4 ( 7.3%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.9%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.9%)
19:45 ….. 7.6 (38.4%) ….. 1.7 ( 8.8%) ….. 1.5 ( 7.4%) ….. 0.9 ( 4.3%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.1%)
20:00 ….. 8.2 (40.7%) ….. 2.5 (12.4%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.9%) ….. 0.9 ( 4.6%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.1%)
20:15 ….. 8.4 (40.5%) ….. 2.5 (12.0%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.5%) ….. 1.1 ( 5.2%) ….. 0.8 ( 3.8%)
20:30 ….. 7.4 (34.6%) ….. 2.5 (11.6%) ….. 0.6 ( 2.9%) ….. 1.3 ( 6.0%) ….. 0.8 ( 3.9%)
20:45 ….. 7.7 (35.3%) ….. 2.5 (11.6%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.1%) ….. 1.2 ( 5.5%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.2%)
21:00 ….. 6.1 (28.2%) ….. 2.5 (11.5%) ….. 0.8 ( 3.5%) ….. 1.5 ( 7.1%) ….. 1.0 ( 4.4%)
21:15 ….. 5.0 (23.1%) ….. 2.5 (11.7%) ….. 0.7 ( 3.4%) ….. 1.6 ( 7.5%) ….. 1.1 ( 5.1%)
21:30 ….. 5.1 (24.0%) ….. 2.6 (12.0%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.5%) ….. 1.8 ( 8.6%) ….. 1.0 ( 4.7%)
21:45 ….. 4.8 (22.7%) ….. 2.4 (11.4%) ….. 0.5 ( 2.6%) ….. 1.7 ( 8.3%) ….. 0.9 ( 4.5%)
22:00 ….. 5.5 (27.6%) ….. 1.4 ( 7.2%) ….. 0.3 ( 1.7%) ….. 1.8 ( 8.8%) ….. 1.0 ( 5.0%)
22:15 ….. 4.7 (25.2%) ….. 0.8 ( 4.4%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.0%) ….. 1.6 ( 8.3%) ….. 1.0 ( 5.6%)
22:30 ….. 2.6 (15.5%) ….. 0.6 ( 3.5%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.5%) ….. 1.6 ( 9.3%) ….. 1.1 ( 6.5%)
22:45 ….. 2.5 (16.1%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.9%) ….. 0.4 ( 2.7%) ….. 1.6 (10.2%) ….. 1.0 ( 6.1%)
23:00 ….. 2.5 (18.8%) ….. 0.5 ( 3.7%) ….. 0.5 ( 3.8%) ….. 0.7 ( 5.5%) ….. 0.6 ( 4.1%)

Raw figures exclude +1, breakdown includes +1.

Will we get figures for the other Olympic channels? Personally, I'm making great use of the "chapters" feature on the website video player, more than the live TV coverage...

K

Any idea what BBC4's Wallander Sidetracked / Villospår / Die Falsch Fährte got at 21.00 last night?

Best Olympics ever for TV coverage. We're just watching the 24 BBC HD channels, Eurosport HD and Sky 3D.

Not one talking head in sight!!

Are there are ratings for internet feeds/dedicated channels as I will doing this and I suspect a lot of others will be as well.

Add in BBCHD, which is basically BBC3HD, and strip out ITV1+1, and BBC3 was possibly the 2nd channel yesterday. I suspect only EmFm and Coro will prevent that happening every day during the fortnight.


"Dolphin" vs penguins in the 8pm hour.

If 9m were watching Miley, who the nation hadn't heard of yesterday, then surely Becky can pull in 10m?

Good ratings for Olympics. The daytime ratings in particular are strong and it does look like the other channels were battered quite badly. BBC3 almost overtaking ITV1 is remarkable too and that's without HD included.

This afternoon will be interesting with Olympics and F1 highlights on at the same time there could be a big combined BBC share.

The figures that have been going around do not include people watching in pubs, online through the bbc website, late night work places, public places, hyde park, hospitals, prisons, music festivals on big screens or in 3D.

Media estimates are that around 11 million extra people in the UK watched the ceremony when all the above is added together.

The real viewing figure in the UK for the ceremony is around 39 million. (27 million peak in homes + 11 million watching in the places named above).

In my view the London Olympic 2012 opening ceremony when you include viewing in public places is the most watched television event of all time in the United Kingdom with around 39 million watching live on BBC1.

Including public place viewing this completely smashes the previous record of the 1966 world cup final.

This is around 2/3 of everyone in Britain watching BBC1 live (excluding a few thousand watching on eurosport). This is a major major success for the BBC.

Jake Humphrey ‏@mrjakehumphrey
So happy that well over 1.5m people were watching @britishhandball last night on @bbcthree #drama! Tonight on Three, Team GB men's football
11:59 AM - 29 Jul 12

..and the various audio description, commentary free, 3D versions.

It's more a major success for the Olympics rather the BBC though.

Jake Humphrey has tweeted that over 1.5m were watching Handball on BBC3 last night, and BBC Press have tweeted that BBC3 peaked with 2.2m for the men's road race in the early afternoon.

The Handball by the way was shown between 7.25 and 8.00.

So I was a bit ambitious with 10m every night then - though around 8m between BBC1 and BBC3 in peak last night. I think people always remember Olympic ratings as higher than they are - it's more about the peaks than the averages - but a good solid start on a quiet night for the BBC coverage.

P.S. Did we get a Eurosport figure for the Opening Ceremony?

C4's decision to commission a run of Olympic and Paralympic themed specials of Million Pound Drop and air them during the games is just madness. They'd be better off burning off their worthy PSB stuff during the games and then have used MPD as a build up to their own Paralympic coverage - though they'd have had to at least film it after the Olympics.

You may well be right but unfortunately there is no way of proving this theory. Has anybody checked on the power consumption figures which are another way of measurement, I haven't seen them anywhere.And don't forget the ratings method in 1966 was completely different from today and may also have under-measured.

It was a bit "after the Lord Mayor's show" last night, with most of the nation having sat through several hours of Olympics the night before. The big event yesterday was the men's road race; the evening schedule was a bit uninspiring, unless you are a swimming nut. Big numbers tonight I think across the various BBC live Olympics offerings - think "10m a night" isn't that far off the mark.

Let us stick to reported barb ratings, I would imagine an estimated 20m+ Brits were fast asleep at 00.00 on Friday night....not everyone stays up late to watch tv.

I would like to see the barb reach figure for Friday night from 21:00, I wonder if 90% of barb users ( who watched tv on Friday night) watched at least a few minutes of the ceremony? Also a certain percentage of barb users will be out of the country on holiday.

There will be relief all round at the BBC that Rebecca Adlington has made the 400m final (she was eighth fastest so only just qualified).

The peak could be around 10m for her race at 8.15pm.

I'd say there was a good possibility 2/3m were watching the last half of the Opening Ceremony yesterday evening....

are we gonna get ratings from any of the 24 new Olympic channels during the games or not?

it'd be interesting to see how they do!

@BBCSport: The @bbcsport website had a record-breaking audience of 7.8m global browsers (5.6m in UK) for the first day of the London Olympics #bbc2012

Cool! I wonder what the technical definition of a "browser" is? E.g. Unique users that watched any stream for > 3mins?

K

They didn't necessarily watch anything, only visited the site. Browsers would mean any different devices I guess - I would count twice - for my laptop and my phone.

Doesn't bode well for team GB's medal hopes this time round. Day two and still not a medal in sight. I think because it's a home Olympics the athletes had become too complacent and expectant and what happened was all the other countries upped their game. We will be lucky to match the success of Beijing let alone beat it.

Browsers would be people web surfing rather than just streaming I would say. I think with the Olympics there is simply too much choice at times.

A football match for example is precise, kick off, half-time, full-time whistle...(extra-time, penalties occasionally) viewers know when to watch, there is little dead-time. With the Olympic feeds there are gaps between sessions, the road race cycling is an ideal viewer sport, I hope both rate well.

I don't think anyone expects a greater haul than Beijing, just because they won in 2008 does not mean 2012 will be any easier. We will do well on velodrome Cycling and Boxing, but Athletics less so. The only realistic medal hope on Saturday was Mark Cavendish, I do expect Rebecca to get Bronze or better tonight though. Sailing and Equestrian (later in the week) could be medal hopes also.