With Australia celebrating its best ever gold medal Olympics day, it’s probably not surprising that the Seven Network secured a massive proportion of Sunday’s TV viewership.
Highlights from the Games themselves obviously including Emma McKeown, who snared gold in the women’s freestyle and was part of the gold-winning relay too, while Matt Wearn won gold in the sailing and Logan Martin won gold in the Games’ first ever freestyle BMX comp.
It’s almost enough to make you feel patriotic – especially if you’re a Seven executive.
The Olympics numbers went as follows: the night coverage had 2,070,000 viewers, while the afternoon had 1,524,000, evening had 1,519,000, late afternoon had 1,259,000, late night had 1,181,000 and morning had 842,000. Phew.
Seven News also performed well with 1,742,000 viewers, while Nine News had 991,000.
Nine also had Beauty and the Geek, which is in the run up to its finale. It won the entertinment competition with 678,000 viewers. 10’s Australian Survivor had 568,000 viewers and ABC’s Kevin’s Grandest Designs had 441,000.
The rest of the ABC’s night saw the News with 660,000 viewers and Insiders with 271,000.
For 10, The Sunday Project had 421,000 viewers while 10 News First had 279,000.
Finally, Nine had 60 Minutes with 450,000 viewers and the Sunday arvo NRL with 271,000.
The Seven Network had a particularly impressive night, socring well over half of the total daily audience share at 54 per cent. Next was the Nine Network with 19.8 per cent, followed by Network 10 with 12.7 per cent, the ABC TV Network with 9.0 per cent and the SBS Network with 4.5 per cent.
Featured Image: YouTube/AUS Olympic Team
