My apologies for not posting the Olympic Viewing Guides or the Primetime Viewing Picks. Was seeing a few friends and got back late so I wasn’t able to post them.
So for the memorable men’s 100 meters race won by Usain Bolt, BBC says its audience peaked at an amazing 20 million people. That almost doubled the audience that watched Andy Murray win his emotional gold medal in the men’s tennis gold medal match earlier in the day.
Here’s the BBC blurb on its numbers.
Olympics Daily Bulletin – Monday 6 August 2012
Usain Bolt retains 100m title with peak audience of 20m tuning in
- The record breaking Men’s 100m Final drew an Olympics high peak audience of 20m at 21:50 across BBC One and BBC Olympics 3
Andy Murray wins first GB Men’s Singles gold in 104 years – peaks at 10.7m
- A peak audience of 10.7m watched at 16:30 on BBC One and BBC Olympics 1 as Andy Murray made history at Wimbledon, becoming GB’s first Men’s Singles gold medal winner in 104 years
BBC Sport Online record week
- BBC Sport Online saw a record 24.5m UK unique browsers across the week (Mon 30 Jul- Sun 5 Aug) with 10.5m International unique browsers to make a weekly Global browser figure of 34.7m
Back with more throughout the morning.
