BBC Commonwealth Games coverage attracts record 57m streams

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BBC Sports’ coverage of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was streamed 57.1 million times over 11 days, more than six times the amount of streams of a previous Games.

Coverage of the 2018 Games from Gold Coast was streamed nine million times and Glasgow 2014 was streamed 8.2 million times.

The BBC reported a total of 28.6 million people watched this year’s games which finished on Monday.

The highest TV peak was 6.6 million ahead of the women’s 100m backstroke and men’s 100m breaststroke finals on day three, and the opening ceremony registered a five-minute peak of 5.2 million viewers.