Nick Kyrgios’ first Australian Open game can’t match Chris Gayle’s Big Bash fireworks
Nick Kyrgios’ first night win in the Australian Open on Seven drew a prime time metro audience of 644,000 viewers, but the tennis bad boy could not match controversial cricketer Chris Gayle’s theatrics in the Big Bash League which drew 1.02m on Channel Ten.
.@NickKyrgios LIVE at #AusOpen SCORES: https://t.co/5FTmN0FMDw STREAM: https://t.co/RmrG7bs4it #7Tennis @7tennis pic.twitter.com/VBte28Hpag
— 7Sport (@7Sport) January 18, 2016
Australia’s big hope in the tournament Kyrgios beat Pablo Carreno Busta in straight sets with Seven keen to promote how its 7Tennis app had broken the previous record for live streams, claiming 550,105 streams on day one of the Grand Slam breaking the previous live streaming record of 488,000 set last year in the Melbourne Cup.
Great to see Chris’s bat doing the talking after “the controversy” What a storm in a tea cup, he must be wondering “what did i do wrong, I just invited her out for a drink?” [Same a Mel did on the show last night with KP, except not in such a clumsy, awkward way] Hope we get to see him in #BBL next year.
Another hack job Mumbrella, I can see the tennis did 644k but where does it say the Big Bash did over a million? Your headline doesn’t match your table.
Hi Long John,
Thanks for the comment. The 1m number is based on confirmed times with the session (which went slightly shorter than the schedule due to the Renegades’ collapse which were provided by Ten. The numbers in the graph are for the whole session timeslot as provided by OzTam in the overnight ratings, which also don’t include the figures for viewers on One in Perth.
Rest assured we have spoken to the network I can see you work for from your IP address about this already.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
guys can you do a rollup of networks inc. of multichannels. It would be helpful to work out share for 7 inc. mate and 7Two in comparison to 10 and One (for BBL)
Hi Media’s best beard,
Thanks for your comment.
Those figures are included daily in the ratings charts under total audience share.
Cheers
Nic – Mumbrella
Part of the problem with viewer numbers is Kyrgios. His bad mouthing spectators and attitude isn’t winning fans over.