Usain Bolt’s "triumphant final leg" for the Jamaican 100m relay team handed BBC1 "its biggest audience of the Commonwealth Games" with more than 8 million viewers, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN.
The men’s 4x100m relay final "drew 8.4 million viewers" between 9:20-9:25pm on Saturday.
Tom Daley "delivered the biggest audience for sister channel BBC3," with a peak of 1.8 million viewers watching the Olympic Bronze Medalist take Gold in the men’s 10m platform diving a little earlier on Saturday. Sunday night’s closing ceremony pulled in 6.8 million viewers, a 34.2% share between 9-11pm, "after an hour-long review" of the games which drew 5.1 million viewers (25.0%) between 8-9pm.
Saturday night’s main games program averaged 5.4 million viewers (28.6%) from 7-10:20pm (GUARDIAN, 8/4).
OPENING WEEKEND: DWDL's Alexander Krei reported German pay-TV channel Sky "attracted an average of 440,000 viewers for its broadcast of Saturday's 2nd Bundesliga games." Starting at 4pm, Sky obtained a market share of 3.4%. In the target demographic 14-49, the 2nd Bundesliga games had a market share of 3.1%. Saturday's early kickoff game between Heidenheim and Frankfurt was watched by 180,000 viewers and obtained a share of 1% in the target demo.
SUPERCUP AND DTM: German public broadcaster ARD recorded a market share of 4.1% for its broadcast of the basketball Supercup game between Germany and Russia on Sunday. The game, which Germany won 84-75, attracted 500,000 viewers. In the target demographic, Germany's win was watched by 200,000 viewers and had a 3.9% share. Ahead of the Supercup game, ARD showed the seventh race of the DTM season from Spielberg, Austria. The race, which was won by BMW driver Marco Wittmann, had a 7.3% share in the target demographic. Overall, the DTM race at the Red Bull Ring was watched by 1.09 million viewers and recorded an average market share of 9.3% (DWDL, 8/4).
