audience measurement
24 August 2026
BBC athletics coverage reaches seventeen million
BBC coverage of the European Athletics Championships reached seventeen point two million people across television and iPlayer during the week-long competition.
“BBC coverage of the European Athletics Championships reached seventeen point two million people across television and iPlayer during the week-long competition. Viewers watched sixty-three million hours, reinforcing the scale public broadcasters can still deliver around free-to-air multi-event sport.”Watch the full briefing