Tuesday Final Nationals: Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Delivers its Best Prime Time Total Audience on NBCUniversal Networks To-Date

From NBC Sports Group (full press release): For Tuesday’s primetime coverage, NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery — calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital — averaged a 20.5 household rating with 36.1 million viewers – ranking as the best night of the 2016 Rio Olympics in both metrics to-date.

On the downside, the night did mark a 7-percent decline in viewership from the first Tuesday in London 2012 (38.7 million on July 31, 2012, featured the USA women’s gymnastics team winning the gold in the Team Final) when it had aired solely on NBC.

Also on Tuesday, live streaming for the Rio Olympics via NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app surpassed the ENTIRE London Games. Through last night, viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the 2016 Rio Olympics up 245 percent from the opening Tuesday in 2012. There were 818 million live streaming minutes for the full London Olympics.

Tuesday night’s NBC-only Rio Olympics coverage (8-11:44 p.m. ET/PT) featured Michael Phelps capturing his record 20th and 21st career gold medals, Katie Ledecky earning her second gold medal of the Rio Games, and Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s dominant gold-medal performance.

Also on Tuesday night, NBCSN’s live Olympic competition coverage averaged 1.9 million viewers, while Bravo’s live primetime Olympic tennis coverage averaged 414,000 viewers. The NBCSN telecast featured the second half of the U.S Women’s Soccer match, while Serena Williams lost her third-round singles match on Bravo.

TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR NBC TUESDAY PRIMETIME:

1. Salt Lake City 30.6/51
2. Denver 28.7/50
3. Indianapolis 25.6/42
T4. Minneapolis 25.2/44
T4. San Diego 25.2/46
6. Columbus 24.9/40
7. Cincinnati 24.4/39
8. Kansas City 23.8/37
9. Washington, D.C. 23.6/43
10. Chicago 23.5/39

Half-hours for ‬“Rio 2016 Summer Olympics-Tuesday” were, as follows:

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Tuesday, August 9, 2016
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.8/3	2492	0.5/2	0.7/2	0.8/2
8:00	Bachelor in Paradise	249	94	2.7/5	3859	1.0/4	1.1/4	1.3/4
9:00	Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise (p)	249	94	1.7/3	2388	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
10:00	The Middle (r)	249	94	0.9/2	1258	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
10:30	Fresh Off the Boat (r)	249	94	0.9/2	1198	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.9/5	4330	0.3/1	0.6/2	0.9/2
8:00	NCIS (r)	254	94	3.9/7	5808	0.4/2	0.7/2	1.0/3
9:00	Zoo	254	94	2.5/4	3603	0.3/1	0.6/2	0.9/2
10:00	NCIS: New Orleans (r)	255	94	2.5/4	3580	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.7/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			19.0/33	33440	7.6/32	10.0/34	12.0/34
8:00	Rio Summer Olympics (s)	242	94	18.9/33	33440	7.5/33	10.0/35	11.9/35
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.7/1	986	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
8:00	Brooklyn Nine-Nine (r)	255	94	0.7/1	1061	0.3/1	0.4/1	0.4/1
8:30	New Girl (r)	255	94	0.5/1	762	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
9:00	Lucifer (r)	255	94	0.7/1	1065	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.5/1	699	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	The Flash (r)	246	92	0.6/1	801	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.3/1
9:00	MADtv	247	92	0.4/1	597	0.2/1	0.2/1	0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.0/2	1812		0.6/2
7:00	La Rosa de Guadalupe			0.9/2	1562		0.6/3
8:00	Un Camino Hacia El Destino			1.1/2	1972		0.7/2
9:00	Tres Veces Ana			1.1/2	1866		0.7/2
10:00	Tres Veces Ana			0.9/2	1599		0.6/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.3/0	512		0.2/1
7:00	Mi Corazon es Tuyo			0.2/0	367		0.2/1
8:00	Moisés y Los Diez Mandamientos			0.3/1	650		0.3/1
9:00	La Ronca de Oro			0.3/1	589		0.2/1
10:00	El Príncipe			0.2/0	296		0.1/0

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Tuesday 8/09/16

Cable Rankings – Tuesday 8/09/16
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Tuesday, August 9:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research