BBC Commonwealth Games coverage attracts record 57m streams

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August 10, 2022

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In brief: 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.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

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.