TV Ratings August 1, 2021: Olympics coverage cracks 2m viewers during primetime
• Huge Olympic numbers powers Seven Network to 54% share
• Beauty and the Geek top entertainment show with four makeovers
• Survivor serves up epic blindside before tribes are switched
Primetime News
Seven News 1,742,000
Nine News 991,000
ABC News 660,000
10 News First 244,000 (5:00pm)/ 314,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 174,000 (6:30pm) 124,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
Insiders 453,000
The Project 279,000 (6:30 pm)/421,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 452,000
Today 254,000
News Breakfast 194,000
Seven
The Olympic games continue to produce gold for Seven as the second week of its coverage led to another huge win, with the broadcaster once again having the #1 primary channel (45.4%), multichannel (4.8%), and network (54.0%).
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One of the main highlights came earlier in the day when the Australian swim team capped off an incredible meet with more gold and Emma McKeon made Olympic history after winning seven medals at the games.
In the evening Brandon Starc finished fifth in the high jump while Aussie sprinter Rohan Browning missed out on the 100m sprint final.
Olympics Tokyo 2020 segment TV ratings:
Night: 2,070,000
Afternoon: 1,524,000
Evening: 1,519,000
Late Afternoon: 1,259,000
Late Night: 1,181,000
Morning: 842,000
The Olympics wasn't the only sport on Seven Yesterday with the AFL bringing in 217,000 viewers.
Nine
After a lot of back and forth discussions the Sunday Afternoon NRL went ahead with The Melbourne Storm v the Penrith Panthers in a game that was meant to originally take place on Saturday. The Storm easily handled the Panthers in front of 271,000 viewers.
Beauty and the Geek had 678,000 viewers as the teams came together to perform a halftime show at an NRL game.
Lachlan and Kiera won while Mitchell and Ashleigh were sent home after losing the elimination challenge against Alexander and Eliza.
60 Minutes then had 450,000 as Tom Steinfort covered the hesitancy and importance surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine in Australia.
10
The Sunday Project had 279,000 (6:30pm) and 421,000 (7:00pm) viewers as the show covered the Covid outbreaks in Queensland and New South Wales and also spoke to pop sensation Billie Eilish.
Australian Survivor followed with 568,000 as the Brains tribe served up an epic blindside on Joey which was masterminded by Hailey.
ABC
A special Grand Designs episode aired on ABC last night to celebrate 20 years of hosting the show, Kevin McCloud revealed his top five buildings. The episode had 441,000 viewers.
SBS
The top non-news program on SBS last night was a repeat of the documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week with 126,000 viewers.
