{"id":17613,"date":"2013-01-29T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/murrays-loss-watched-by-five-million-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:38:08","slug":"murrays-loss-watched-by-five-million-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/murrays-loss-watched-by-five-million-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray\u2019s loss watched by five million in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>BBC1\u2032s live coverage of Murray\u2019s 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\u2032s typical audience on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday evening, BBC2\u2032s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Top Gear was neck and neck with ITV1\u2032s Dancing on Ice: the Skate Off, which also had 5.3 million viewers, a 17.4% share, between 8.30pm and 9pm. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2013\/jan\/28\/andy-murray-australian-open-top-gear\" target=\"_blank\">guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2032s live coverage of Murray\u2019s four-set defeat to Novak Djokovic averaged 4.1 million viewers, a 38% share of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}