ITV's coverage of #ArsenalvsManCity was watched by 1.5m/8.6%, beaten by BBC #Rio2016 and #Countryfile http://www.overnights.tv

My Freeview has 2 Olympic RB channels. One starts at 7pm which is when CBeebies closes down for the night and the other starts at 9pm which is when CBBC closes down.

Bit of a poor service (and don't know why they couldn't have closed CBBC at 7pm just for a fortnight). Fortunately I also have Freesat downstairs and Sky upstairs.

That seems low for cbb

Good hold for Dragons Den, pretty much the same as the previous episode.

Excluding +1:

Suits (Dave): 0.17m (1.0%)
Zoo (Sky 1): 0.15m (0.7%)
The Last Ship (Sky 1): 0.12m (0.6%)
Parks and Recreation (Dave): 0.03m (0.3%)

Well, I was watching some of the Freeview RB streams in the afternoon!

Maybe you were referring to channel 114, the BBC Olympic HD channel?

Or, come to think of it, there are more RB streams on one of the temporary muxes.

See here:
http://www.a516digital.com/2016/08/a...nnels-now.html

and


http://www.a516digital.com/2016/04/b...nel-guide.html


See above

Out of interest do you know for certain that Sky are paying for them this time?

From ITV Media:

Friday Top 10 (inc. +1)

1 ITV - 07:30 PM Coronation Street 5.684m 34%
2 BBC One - 08:00 PM EastEnders 5.278m 30%
3 ITV - 08:30 PM Coronation Street 5.164m 27%
4 ITV - 07:00 PM Emmerdale 4.943m 32%
5 BBC One - 10:00 PM BBC News at Ten 4.757m 29%
6 BBC One - 06:30 PM Regional News and Weather 4.205m 30%
7 BBC One - 06:00 PM BBC News at Six 3.675m 28%
8 BBC One - 08:30 PM Olympics 2016: Countdown to Rio 3.002m 16%
9 ITV - 06:30 PM ITV Evening News 2..724m 20%
10 ITV - 06:00 PM ITV Regional News 2.569m 20%

Friday Top 10 (inc. +1) (not including the five main channels)

1 ITV2 - 09:00 PM The Dark Knight 552k 3.8%
2 E4 - 07:00 PM Hollyoaks 551k 3.6%
3 Sky Sports 1 - 07:00 PM Live: Championship 499k 2.8%
4 Film4 - 09:00 PM Escape Plan 462k 2.8%
5 ITV3 - 09:00 PM Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs 456k 2.5%
6 E4 - 06:30 PM The Big Bang Theory 419k 3.0%
7 ITV3 - 09:30 PM Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs 415k 2.2%
8 E4 - 09:00 PM Rush Hour 3: 353k 2.0%
9 ITV4 - 07:15 PM Football: Arsenal v Viking FK Stavanger 321k 1.8%
10 ITV3 - 05:55 PM Heartbeat 310k 2.3%

It is, but it seems that Sundays are now rating quite low for some reason. Has been ever since the normal version started this year. I'm sure Dragons Den didn't help.

Friday overnights (including +1):

Doc Martin (Repeat): 2.2m (11.7%)
Celebrity Big Brother (9pm): 1.7m (9%)
8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown: 1.6m (8.6%)
Friday Night Dinner: 1m (6.1%)

Saturday overnights (including +1):

Catchphrase: 2.8m (17.9%)
Film: Skyfall (Repeat): 1.6m (10.2%)
Film: Super 8 (Premiere): 1.5m (9.7%)
Film: Men in Black (Repeat): 890k (5.7%)
Football: the Championship: 590k

From ITV Media:

Saturday Top 10 (inc. +1)

1 BBC One - 10:10 PM BBC News 4.403m 29%
2 BBC One - 06:20 PM Olympics 2016 4.194m 27%
3 ITV - 07:15 PM Catchphrase 2.670m 17%
4 BBC One - 10:30 PM Olympics 2016 2.107m 20%
5 ITV - 06:30 PM ITV News & Weather 2.104m 15%
6 ITV - 06:45 PM You've Been Framed! 1.995m 14%
7 BBC One - 12:10 PM Olympics 2016 1.962m 24%
8 ITV - 06:15 PM ITV Regional News 1.663m 13%
9 ITV - 08:00 PM Skyfall 1.618m 10%
10 BBC One - 06:00 AM Olympic Breakfast 1.506m 40%


Saturday Top 10 (inc. +1) (not including the five main channels)

1 ITV3 - 08:00 PM Lewis 790k 4.8%
2 ITV3 - 07:00 PM Doc Martin 463k 3.1%
3 Sky Sports 1 - 05:00 PM Live: International Champions Cup 433k 3.5%
4 ITV2 - 09:00 PM Hot Fuzz 424k 2.9%
5 BBC Four - 07:00 PM Olympics 2016 383k 2.4%
6 ITV2 - 11:55 PM Family Guy 368k 5.8%
7 ITV2 - 11:25 PM Family Guy 348k 4.1%
8 Sky Sports 2 - 10:30 AM Live: Test Cricket 344k 4.1%
9 Film4 - 09:00 PM The Transporter 342k 2.1%
10 ITV2 - 06:35 PM Twilight 303k 2.0%

Wow that Saturday Top 10 looks really awful. Bet X Factor can't wait to come back on the screens, even if it does worse than last year.

No. All I do know is that Sky's UHD channel was on one of their spot beam transponders and a couple of weeks ago it moved to a European beam and was replaced by BBC Olympic HD RB streams.

Fair assumption.

So up 33% on 2014, very good.

Very good for Super 8 to almost surpass a James Bond film.

From ITV Media:

Sunday Top 10 (inc. +1)

1 BBC One - 07:30 PM Olympics 2016 5.447m 27%
2 BBC One - 10:00 PM BBC News 4.931m 27%
3 BBC One - 06:30 PM Countryfile 4.527m 26%
4 BBC One - 06:00 PM BBC News 4.407m 29%
5 BBC Two - 09:00 PM Dragons' Den 2.379m 11%
6 ITV - 08:00 PM Midsomer Murders 2.367m 12%
7 ITV - 10:00 PM ITV News & Weather 2.305m 12%
8 BBC One - 01:00 PM Olympics 2016 2.287m 22%
9 BBC Two - 06:00 PM Olympics 2016 1.937m 12%
10 BBC Two - 10:00 PM Olympics 2016 1.923m 13%

Sunday Top 10 (inc. +1) (not including the five main channels)

1 BT Sport 2 - 03:15 PM Live Leicester City v Man Utd 795k 6.4%
2 ITV2 - 07:50 PM The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 490k 2.5%
3 ITV3 - 07:00 PM Doc Martin 487k 2.7%
4 BBC Four - 07:00 PM Olympics 2016 451k 2.3%
5 Sky Sports 2 - 10:30 AM Live: Test Cricket 445k 4.7%
6 ITV2 - 11:00 PM Family Guy 423k 4.2%
7 Film4 - 09:00 PM Die Hard 2: 410k 2.4%
8 ITVBe - 10:00 PM The Only Way Is Essex 381k 2.3%
9 ITV2 - 10:30 PM Family Guy 367k 2.6%
10 ITV2 - 11:30 PM American Dad! 349k 5.0%

If you have a Freeview HD TV, re-tune it and you'll get all day live streams on channels 600 to 608. Freeview SD tuners don't seem to get these channels though.

BBC1 seems to be a bit too much of a pick & mix channel with presenters and studio chat popping up far too often. The live streams are a much easier watch, where you just get the commentators on the sport you actually want and with no interruptions. They must be adding a fair bit to the headline BBC1 ratings. Have to admit last night I did flick to BBC1 HD for the swimming though, so I could watch the post race interviews with some of the swimmers, which aren't shown on the live stream. My God, those 3 swimming presenters/pundits really grate on you when your knackered at 3am.

why do they bother ?

So about 5.9m from BBC1 & BBC4 through primetime, plus however many were on the live streams (across all platforms), shall we say 7m-8m in total for an average through primetime? I think we'll see bigger ratings to come later in the week when our gold medal chances get going. The track cycling for example at 8pm Thursday and on the following few days could be huge. I remember at the London Games BBC3 was getting over 4million at one point for the diving, whilst the Athletics were doing big numbers on BBC1 at the same time.

That must be the first time BBC Breakfast has appeared in the Top 10 for many moons

...two months ago for the EU referendum fallout

Data for week ending 31st July 2016 now available on BARB website

enjoy!

Ed Balls is the first celebrity announced for Strictly, you know autumn Is only around the corner when the strictly announcements start.

Wentworth beginning to look like one of the most successful channel switches ever. I had a feeling this might happen - it may not be the most watched show, but those that watch it are very very passionate about it and wouldn't desert it off the back of it moving channels. OK, a few hundred thousand have, but the retention is starting to look mightily impressive:


Additionally, it was the 18th most watched programme on the digital channels all week.

Viacom deserves a lot of credit for turning around 5Star in no time at all. It's now beginning to forge its own identity and have genuine hits of its own.