Sir Chris Hoy's record-breaking Olympics gold seen by 10.1m
Published Aug 8 2012, 11:49 BST | By Paul Millar
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The Scottish cyclist's sixth gold medal has made him the most successful Great British Olympian of all time, overtaking Sir Steve Redgrave.
A peak of 10.1m tuned in on BBC One and BBC Olympics 1 at around 6.30pm as Hoy drew closer to his victory at the Velodrome.
Interest in the Brownlee brothers attracted a high of 5.6m at 1pm, thought to be unprecedented figures in the UK for the sport of triathlon.
Despite there being no Team GB competitors, the men's 1500m final saw a peak of well over 11m at 9pm.
Olympics Breakfast (1.68m/41%) and Olympics Tonight (2.92m/25.3%) maintained big average audiences on BBC One.
BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional
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Mo Farah with his two gold medals.
So does ITV, BBC2, Channel 4 & 5 not exist anymore Digital Spy?
August 11th 2012 at 3:26pm
annoying that ppl moan bout sport on tv etc when its not olympics on.
August 9th 2012 at 10:47am
shame 4 years until next olympics. just shows how sport brings ppl together on mass watching and notice how no one moaning bout too much sport on tv since olympics started...so why do so many moan when sports on rest of time eg wimbledon, champions league v annoying!
August 9th 2012 at 10:45am
Tell you what rivkin....even you have got to admit..whichever channel we watch after the closing ceremony its going to be a big , big let down after the Olympics.
August 8th 2012 at 6:24pm(+1 like)
1st monday night after olympics ends bbc1 has 2 episodes of eastenders on and prob for the following few weeks as well and as a soap is bbc leading show its just as bad as itv. the bbc is state funded and has more reason to offer alternatives to advert channels but sadly copies them with soaps, and shows like the voice etc. bbc 3 and 4 have very little content that pulls in over 1 million viewers and the popular shows would boost bbc2 which bbc1 keeps nicking shows from. bbc has loads of praise for sport so a dedicated sports channel that wasnt supscription based would be playing to its good points. as for itv and its soaps and reality shows thats what advertisers want them to show as thats what pulls in the viewers im sure if itv was a proper rival to bbc on fair gound and also licence funded its choice of shows would please even the most demanding viewers.
August 8th 2012 at 5:28pm(+1 like)