TV ratings: 10m watch Holland World Cup victory

Holland's 3-2 semifinal win over Uruguay was the most watched non-England match of the World Cup so far, attracting nearly 10 million viewers across ITV1 and ITV1 HD last night, Tuesday 6 July. Live match coverage averaged 9.641 million viewers and a 41.4% audience share across the two channels between 7.30pm and 9.15pm. ITV1 HD had 733,000 (3.1%). The match had a five-minute peak audience of 11.5 million (47%) from 9pm. Full coverage, including pre- and post-match analysis, averaged 8.615 million (38.5%) between 7pm and 9.30pm, of whom 642,000 were watching ITV1 HD. The previous biggest World Cup 2010 audience for a non-England game was for Spain's 1-0 defeat of Portugal in last Tuesday's quarter-final, which had a live match average of 8.575 million (39.5%) on BBC1 and BBC HD . Holland v Uraguay was comfortably the most watched programme on any channel yesterday, as most of the other mainstream networks padded out their peaktime schedules with repeats. The next biggest audience was 4.046 million (16.9%) for Holby City on BBC1 from 8pm. Five main terrestrial analogue networks BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel Five (available in all UK homes with TV, except Five, which reaches about 95%) BBC1 10.35pm: Imagine: Jones the Voice – 2.689 million/18.7% BBC2 8pm: How to Beat Tough Times: Money Watch (new series) – 1.211 million/5.1% ITV1 9.30pm: James Corden's World Cup Live – 3.973 million (17.4%), ITV1 HD 327,000/1.4% Channel 4 8pm: Gok's Fashion Fix – 1.724 million/7.2%, C4 +1 177,000/0.8% 9pm: The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal? – 2.867 million/12.1%, C4 +1 362,000/1.9% 10pm: Big Brother – 2.52 million/13.6%, C4 +1 189,000/1.8% Five 8pm: Build a New Life: Was It Worth It? - 864,000/3.6% Freeview/digital terrestrial TV free-to-air networks Available in 23.4m UK homes – 91.4% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009 Fiver 6.30pm: Home and Away - 407,000/2.4% E4 7pm: Hollyoaks – 569,000/3.1% 9pm: Smallville – 191,000/0.8% BBC3 10.30pm: Mongrels – 417,000/2.4% BBC4 9pm: To Kill a Mockingbird at 50 – 369,000/1.6% 10pm: To Kill a Mockingbird (film rpt) – 548,000/3.7% Cable and satellite pay-TV networks Available in 12.4m UK homes – 48.2% of total – as of 31/12/09. Source: Ofcom digital progress report, Q4 2009 Bravo 10pm: Spartacus: Blood and Sand – 288,000/1.6% FX 10pm: Nip/Tuck – 8,000/0% All ratings are unofficial overnight figures, including live and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, HD, +1 or other – unless otherwise stated • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".