TV Overnights: BBC One’s World Cup coverage scores the peak-time ratings

BBC One’s Match of the Day Live coverage of the Spain v Portugal game secured the prime time top spot last night with a high of 9.3 million viewers.

Over 6.8 million average viewers tuned in to see Spain book a quarter-final date with Paraguay after beating Portugal 1-0 with a 63rd-minute David Villa goal.  The game banked a 32.1% average audience share for BBC One between 7pm and 10pm.

ITV1’s The Bill was BBC One’s closest competitor during the all-important peak-hour with 2.6 million average viewers and a 11.4% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.

Channel 4’s drama-documentary The Untold Battle of Britain took the third spot with 1.8 million viewers and a 7.7% share, followed by BBC Two’s Tribal Wives, which picked up 1.6 million viewers and a slightly lower 7.1% share.

Over on Five, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation pulled in just over a million average viewers and a 4.6% share during the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour.

Earlier on in the day, ITV1’s World Cup Live Paraguay v Japan match, which saw Paraguay secure a quarter-final place for the first time after a 5-3 penalty win, attracted the peak day-time ratings with a high of 4.3 million viewers and a 24.2% audience share.

BBC One’s Wimbledon coverage, meanwhile, attracted almost 3 million peak viewers and a 16.5% average share between 1.45pm and 6pm.

Overnight data is available each morning in mediatel.co.uk’s TV Database, with all BARB registered subscribers able to view reports for terrestrial networks and key multi-channel stations.