TiVo Olympic Coverage — Top Moments — July 27, 2012

From a parachuting Queen to  Lord Voldemort’s defeat at the hands of Mary Poppins, the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in London were filled with quirky British humor, music and pageantry.  Designed by the Oscar winning director of Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle, the Opening Ceremonies celebrated the British Isles and viewers focused in on all the highlights.  Below are the top five moments.

 

TiVo’s Top 5 Olympic Moments – July 27, 2012 – NBC Broadcast Prime
Rank Top Moment(NBC ET/PT) Description
1  8:25:33 PM Queen Elizabeth and James Bond (Daniel Craig) parachute into the Olympic Arena during the Opening Ceremonies
2  8:51:11 PM Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) falls asleep while performing Chariots of Fire with the London Symphony Orchestra and dreams of winning a race on the beach
3 8:34:02 PM The Olympics pay tribute to the medical profession with a performance of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield while actual doctors and nurses perform
4 8:15:59 PM The Olympic rings converge over the stadium and fireworks rain down upon the actors below
5 8:40:49 PM Mary Poppins battles a 100-foot-tall Lord Voldemort to help protect the children’s dreams

* Top 5 moments based on live + Same Day Viewership of the olympic games on NBC

 

 

TiVo Second-by-Second Viewership — NBC Olympics Broadcast — July 27, 2012


 

TiVo Research & Analytics

TiVo’s Top Moments data presented above come from TiVo’s Stop||WatchTM audience insights service. Anonymous viewing data are collected daily from 350,000 US TiVo boxes and aggregated to provide a picture of viewers’ second-by-second behaviors including Trick PlayTM functionality such as pausing, fast forwarding, skipping and rewinding. Top Moments reflect the most viewed programming moments including all realtime playback — moments that are rewound and watched more than once are counted once for each time those moments are played at normal speed.

For a more detailed list of the top moments, or with other questions about TiVo Research & Analytics, please email Insights@tivo.com

 

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