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Seven wins first week of summer

Ratings: Sunday night bulletins were the only titles to score over a million viewers last week.

2014-12-07_1729If you had any doubt we are in the summer non-ratings period just take a look at the lacklustre figures.

Sunday night bulletins of Seven News (1.08m) and Nine News (1.07m) were the only 2 titles to score over a million viewers.

Aside from weeknight News bulletins nothing rated over 900,000 viewers all week.

60 Minutes (892,000) and Sunday Night (875,000) followed with Nabbed (833,000), Motorway Patrol (832,000), Home and Away (820,000), A Current Affair (720,000) and Kitchen Cabinet (779,000) following.

Network:
Seven: 28.9
Nine: 26.5
TEN: 19.5
ABC: 19.0
SBS: 6.0

Primary channel;
Seven: 19.8
Nine: 17.5
ABC: 13.1
TEN: 12.8
SBS ONE: 4.7

Multichannels:
GO!: 5.4
7TWO: 5.3
7mate: 3.9
ELEVEN: 3.7
GEM: 3.6
ABC2: 3.4
ONE: 3.1
ABC News 24: 1.5
SBS 2: 1.2
ABC3: 1.0
NITV: 0.2

Seven was victorious every night except Tuesday, snatched by Nine. ABC bettered TEN on Wednesday and Saturday.

Seven won all cities except Sydney, which is still loyal to Nine.

4 Responses

  1. Me neither HP, I was going to ask the same question. Why do we have ratings in the supposed non-ratings period – it would have to be the stupidest thing ever.

    Does this explain why TEN puts first run, hot off the press Homeland at 10.30 on Monday night, AFTER repeats of TWO episodes of Law & Order? If it’s out of ratings, it shouldn’t matter if they put it on at a civilised hour.

    Pathetic.

  2. After nearly a decade of living in Australia I still struggle to understand why we have a non-ratings period, where the networks wheel out stuff that few want to watch (repeats of Midsomer Murders in prime time?), but during that time TV ratings still get accounted for.
    Besides, wouldn’t advertisers be most keen to promote their products on the highest rating shows at this time of year? How do they feel about the endless repeats and stand-in hosts?
    I just don’t get it…

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