Wimbledon Final Attracts 17 Million Viewers

Roger Federer’s historic seventh Wimbledon title was watched by a peak TV audience of 17million.

Coverage started at 12.55, peaking at 6.14pm with 17.1 million viewers and a 67.9% share. This is more than the Euro 2012 final shown the previous week which peaked at 13.6 million.

The show did an average of 21.7 adults TVRs which equates to 10.6 million viewers with a 59.6% share; in Scotland the show had 25.2 adult TVRs with 986,000 viewers and a 67.7% share.