Ratings race begins
First day of the 2011 ratings season has gone to the Seven Network -by just 1%.
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First day of the 2011 ratings season has gone to the Seven Network -by just 1%.
Seven’s three channels combined to network share of 30.8% to Nine’s 29.8%. TEN was third with 21.4%.
But the top show of the night was Nine News with 1.63m viewers ahead of Seven News on 1.43m. TEN’s new Evening News, now at 6pm, was a distant 391,000.
The biggest audience for a non-news programme was The Force (1.35m) followed by Border Security (1.25m).
Nine’s One Day Cricket averaged 1.22m viewersacross primetime delaying the launch of its regular Sunday night programming.
Best for TEN was Modern Family (1.12m) but The Biggest Loser (1.08m) did beat Sunday Night (1.05m). Hawaii Five-0 was precisely 999,000, beaten by Seven’s Bones (1.16m). Bondi Rescue launched its new season to 963,000.
On ABC1 its News was 834,000 followed by Agatha Christie: Poirot (678,000) and South Pacific (579,000).
America: The Story Of The U.S. pulled 262,000 for SBS ONE.
6 Responses
i dont see why they cant have 5pm news on the wknd and 6pm with hugh on wknds
I think it’s going to be a close year
First at 5 is one of the few slogans Ten has made stick – and now to drop it on weekends? Crazy.
“precisely 999,000”? Surely that’s rounded to the nearest thousand.
And so it begins lol
6pm news? big mistake Ten, big mistake.