But I thought they were in a crisis?

A crisis so terrible, their profits have gone up, influx of advertisers have meant some are turned away, most watched multi-channels, the biggest commercial channel in the UK - regularly competing with a publicly funded broadcaster. The reason ITV have done so poorly this year is the distinct lack of much drama/strong factual substance on the main channel, and some bad decisions regarding ITV2.

And there you all were, hoping to be able to stick the boot in. Yet it rated about the same as it always does on a Saturday.

The show's loyal audience shunned the buildup to the big game to tune in.

I'm more interested in the tiger programme on BBC2 tomorrow. Think it could get 2/3m even though it's facing Coronation Street.

That was a bizarre moment to say the least.

The one shining light in the BBC's coverage which is mediocre overall has been Rio Ferdinand. Really rating his contributions so far and hope to see him used more as a pundit going forwards.

Agreed, with +1 it would have been very similar to the Saturday week before. I'm hoping that it can grow from now on now.

A little odd to have that game on primetime, but I guess they don't always think about when certain games are shown in different countries. Iran/Nigeria would have been better suited like Japan/Ivory Coast in a very late slot. I think it will average 4-4.5m.

18:30 - Countryfile: 4.63m (25.3%)
19:30 - MOTD Live: France vs Honduras: 7.65m (35.5%)
22:05 - BBC News: 6.56m (34.2%)
22:25 - BBC Regional News: 5.98m (32.7%)
22:35 - MOTD Live: Argentina vs Bosnia and Herzegovina: 3.82m (39.4%)

This world cup really is rating well - well in excess of most Champions League games for the evening matches.

Will be interesting to see how ITV's Switzerland v Ecuador game did, as its two of the smallest names in the competition and wasn't a good game.

UK TV Ratings ‏@TVRatingsUK 2m
Coverage of the first World Cup match yesterday, Switzerland v Ecuador pulled in 3.71m/25.5%, ITV's top rating of the day.

Michelle Osborn ‏@michellosborn 2m
Peak audience of 8.9 million viewers watched France beat Honduras on #BBC1 last night #WorldCup2014

Astonishing for the France game coverage. I expected 5m coverage average tops. Impressive too for the late night Argentina game till 1.15am on a school night. Well ahead of anything itv showed all day!

Could be 3m for bbc1's "last pick" 8pm game tonight though. The soaps on itv should go through the roof. The Dentists could be getting 5m or more with the lead in and absence of competition.

There is a sizeable Nigerian minority in the UK but that wont be enough to be a ratings winner. Iran - not everyones favourite nation in the UK. One for the die hards imo.

Another brilliant figure for the World Cup in primetime!

Great night for BBC1.
Who has Germany/Portugal tonight?
I think that should do extremely well too.

ITV has the Germany v Portugal game. I'm looking forward to that match, should be a good un!

I'm stunned at how well this year's World Cup is rating. Maybe stunned is the wrong word but the big audiences are very pleasing to see. England v Uruguay will get a stonking rating, shame I'll be on a train during the match

Another brilliant World Cup rating, I haven't done any comparisons, but I suspect that the tournament is rating higher than 2006 and 2010 - if someone looks at rzt's takes, it maybe with found that analysis.


More importantly, it's Germany vs Portugal on ITV at 17:00 which, if the ratings so far are too go by, could bring in a massive peak and share.

Germany vs Portugal should do the same as Spain/Holland in my opinion. Another massive game.

Surely the 5pm start time on a work day will stop it matching the Spain/Holland rating?

Woops, I meant the share.

My thinking too- I imagine the second half will have a sizeable peak however.

I'll be interested to see how well EE does tonight at 7 too.

BLIMEY! Look at the news!

Should be a lot better than Friday, they are running a trailer for this week and advertising it at 7.00pm, already been on a few times this morning. Going by Emmerdale's recent ratings I'd be hoping for high 5's at least.

I noticed yesterday that the BBC started running teaser trailers for The Commonwealth Games.

As far as the trailer goes I noticed it doesn't actually state the time it just says all next week. Which is a bit silly.