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ABC wins Saturday

Ok so it was a non-rating Saturday, but good to see the ABC have a nightly win.

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34Sure it’s non-ratings but it happens so rarely let’s hear it for the ABC…

The public broadcaster won Saturday night with a 25.0% share over the competition.

In another shake-up, TEN was second with 24.0%, Seven third with 22.2 which technically left Nine fourth just a fraction behind Seven with 22.1. SBS, which always does well on Saturdays, had 6.7 and its second best night of the week.

ABC won with its UK drama line-up including a repeat of New Tricks followed by The Bill.

It is evidence once again that older viewers are a significant force on Saturdays, partly why Seven has pursued that audience with frequent UK offerings.

Of course, the ABC reminds us they doesn’t adhere to the ratings race, so they won’t be that chuffed by the win. Right…?

Week 16

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  2. I do find it interesting how it’s panned out that Saturdays are pretty much written off in Australian and the US, but in the UK it’s long been considered the biggest night of the week for TV and most of the years biggest programmes are those which air on Saturday nights.

  5. It’s no wonder when the competition is Australia’s Funniest Home Videos which desperately tries to evoke laughter from injuries and things you shouldn’t be laughing at anyway as well as recycling and obtaining half of the videos from America’s Funniest Home Videos. If that is the quality of free-to-air programming then it’s no suprise that viewers are watching the ABC. The Bill is also an old favourite so ABC will definitly win with that in it’s Saturday line-up.

  6. This seems to be the trend. Last year was the highest ratings ABC every got. I think as the commercial stations try to save money and slip in all kinds of advertsing everywhere, The ABC will gain a bigger share of viewers as commercial stations invest less and Aunty invests more and in inovative ways. Well done ABC.

  7. Nice one ABC.

    Of course, while the ABC doesn’t adhere to the ratings race, this is “non ratings” so no ratings were actually measured, and all of this is just a dream.

  8. Good to say the public broadcaster serving it up to the commercial stations – hope to see more of it.

    I notice that in the weekly ratings in the mornings The Today Show has almost caught up to the dreadful Sunrise family. Must be a few nervous nellies at Seven.

    Its about time Kochie and his overly pretentious posse of sidekicks on that show got some competition – now if only the ABC switched their morning program from ABC 2 to 1 there might be even more competition!

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