Supporters turn up for Olympic runner Peter Bol (Image: Twitter)

About 2.46 million people tuned in to Seven for Peter Bol’s run and the rest of the night’s events on day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics — 1.79 million in the metros and 675,000 in the regions. The most unifying event of the games for Australians so far. Well run, and a great and generous call by Bruce McAvaney and Tamsyn Manou.

Elsewhere, Shaun Micaleff”s Mad As Hell, 592,000, far more than Win The Week at 8pm with 410,000. That was a turn on off 44% for Win The Week’s, confirming that ABC viewers uninterested in sport can’t stand it. Ten’s The Bachelor — 449,000 — was another desperate program.

Today its the men’s hockey final, the men’s basketball semi final and the women’s bronze medal football game. And of course there’s some NRL on Nine.

Regional top five: Tokyo Games Day 12 – Night, 675,000; Seven News 6.30, 654,000; Seven News, 642,000; Tokyo Games Day 12 – Evening, 546,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 368,000.

Network channel share:

  1. Seven (53.7%)
  2. Nine (18.8%)
  3. Ten (11.8%)
  4. ABC (10.73%)
  5. SBS (5.0%)

Network main channels:

  1. Seven (40.7%)
  2. Nine (13.5%)
  3. ABC (7.9%)
  4. Ten (6.5%)
  5. SBS ONE (2.6%)

Top 5 digital channels: 

  1. 7mate (8.5%)
  2. 7TWO (3.5%)
  3. 10 Bold (2.8%)
  4. 10 Peach (2.1%)
  5. GO (1.8%)

Top 10 national programs:

  1. Tokyo Games Day 12 – Night (Seven) — 2.446 million
  2. Seven News — 1.950 million
  3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.902 million
  4. Tokyo Games Day 12 – Evening (Seven) — 1.783 million
  5. Nine News  — 1.353 million
  6. Nine News 6.30 — 1.265 million
  7. Tokyo Games Day 12 – Late Night (Seven) — 1.264 million
  8. The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.030 million
  9. 7pm ABC News — 941,000
  10. Tokyo Games Day 12 – Afternoon (Seven) — 936,000

Top metro programs: 
1. Tokyo Games Day 12 – Night (Seven) — 1.791 million
2. Seven News  — 1.308 million
3. Seven News 6.30 — 1.248 million
4. Tokyo Games Day 12 — Evening (Seven) — 1.238 million
5. Nine News —1.039 million


Losers: None really because of the games on Seven but The Bachelor… weak, again. It won’t Win The Week.

Metro news and current affair

  1. Seven News — 1.308 million
  2. Seven News 6.30 —1.248 million
  3. Nine News — 1.039 million
  4. Nine News 6.30 — 954,000
  5. ACA (Nine) — 668,000
  6. 7pm ABC News — 632,000
  7. 7.30 (ABC) — 495,000
  8. The Project 7pm (Ten) — 400,000
  9. Ten News First (ABC) — 394,000
  10. The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 288,000

Morning (National) TV:

  1. Sunrise (Seven) — 564,000/327,000
  2. Today (Nine) — 347,000/226,000
  3. News Breakfast (ABC) — 326,000/214,000
  4. The Morning Show (Seven) — Pre-empted by the Games
  5. Today Extra (Nine) — 199,000
  6. Studio 10 (Ten) —  60,000

Top five Pay TV programs: 

  1. Credlin (Sky News) — 61,000
  2. The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 51,000
  3. Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 47,000
  4. Alan Jones (Sky News) —42,000
  5. Newsday (Sky News) — 39,000