A peak audience of more than five million viewers watched Andy Murray suffer an agonising defeat in his bid to win a second Grand Slam in the Australian Open tennis final on BBC1 on Sunday morning.
BBC1′s live coverage of Murray’s four-set defeat to Novak Djokovic averaged 4.1 million viewers, a 38% share of the audience, between 8.15am and 12.45pm, with a 15-minute peak of 5.1 million between midday and 12.15pm. This was up to four times BBC1′s typical audience on a Sunday morning.
On Sunday evening, BBC2′s Top Gear returned for its 19th series on BBC2 with 5.3 million viewers, a 17.9% share, between 8pm and 9pm, including 929 000 viewers on BBC HD.
Top Gear was neck and neck with ITV1′s Dancing on Ice: the Skate Off, which also had 5.3 million viewers, a 17.4% share, between 8.30pm and 9pm. – guardian
