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How many people were still watching when Asher took Gold?

TV Tonight analyses Logies minute-by-minute ratings numbers.

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Photo1 (2)Here’s another reason why the Logies needs to end earlier.

I’ve looked at the minute-by-minute breakdown for Nine’s broadcast.

Excluding the Red Carpet the show hit its peak at 8:49pm with 1.46m viewers.

By 9:57pm it had slipped under the 1 million mark but climbed back to 1.28m by 10:13pm.

At 10:39pm it fell below 1 million again and steadily declined.

By 12:16am, roughly the time Asher Keddie was awarded TV’s most prestigious award there were 637,000 people were left watching.

272,00 were left by 12:29am.

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  1. I actually did enjoy the ceremony, except the musical acts. I just think it went too long. I didn’t think Adam Hills was rude, he’s a comedian that’s what he does. You weren’t meant to take him seriously. I agree, it should be put back on Friday nights. Don’t know why it was ever moved. And don’t put it on after The Voice. They used to have international guests, actors though, to hand out awards, not singers. The singing takes up too much time, it’s to celebrate TV shows, not musicians.

  2. @steveany 2.0 – I genuinely care about Australian television and I think it’s important to celebrate local talent and productions. And I don’t appreciate how Nine has the run the Logies.

  3. I only watch it for Bert. Would love to see him made the permanent host for as long as he wished. I switch channels as soon as a musical act comes on as I just don’t see the point. The Richard Wilkins bit just seemed like another unnecessary filler to me also.

    Far to draw out a format and not compelling TV, a bit like the average fluffy Australian drama these days… Thankfully, I have Foxtel with plenty of great and gritty international drama’s.

  6. It was way too long. Very disrespectful to the audience on the day that day light savings ended and people having to work the mext day. I didn’t, so I stuck it out till the end. I remember the glorious days when it was on a Friday night, the first one I watched was the one with Bert/Mohamid Ali, where Don Lane and Jeanie Liitle won. They won’t do it then any more cause there’s more money in Sunday nights.
    Cut down on the musical guests and Richard Wilkins as others have said. Highlights for me were Dave Huges, Brian Henderson and Bert ofcourse. With those I laughed out loud.

  7. Ahh, you people whining about the Logies aren’t fooling anybody. If you you didn’t love to be disgusted and outraged by Ch9’s excesses you wouldn’t watch. 😉
    I haven’t watched the Logies since Matt LeBlanc declared to a drunk & disinterested audience of seatwarmers that “Australian TV rocks!”
    That was pretty much where me and commercial TV parted ways.

  8. So many things could be improved. Have a better red carpet presentation. Cut the bloody best dressed competition and stop promoting your upcoming shows, Nine! Only interview the bloody nominees.

    Cut Richard Wilkins’s Logies minute. Hardly worth keeping. The best/memorable moments clips were alright, but hardly enough to celebrate the last year in TV. Have better montages. Especially of the Gold nominees.

    And don’t have someone like Adam Hills, who is competing in Gold against Steve Peacocke, to present Steve’s silver category. It’s condescending and Adam was more than rude.

    Do have a host to keep the ceremony succinct. Dave Hughes is always brilliant at the Logies.

    When each category is presented, show proper clips on the nominees. Not silly moving black and white images.

    Cut down musical performances. We don’t need four. None were spectacular, and we could’ve done with just two.

    The Logies is suppose to celebrate Australian TV. But the drawn out show did nothing of that. A terrible “celebration” and not half as entertaining as it should be. The worst Logies I’ve watched in years.

  9. Lets not forget that this was broadcast was on when daylight saving had just finished in NSW and VIC so at 12.20am most peoples body clocks were at 1.20am. Way too late.

  11. As a Logies tragic, I stuck it out until the end. I’ve come to expect they always run well overtime anyway. I actually thought this year’s ceremony didn’t seem as long as some in previous years.
    If they cut down on imported musical acts, those excruciating Richard Wilkins interviews and put a ban on (mostly Channel 9) people being able to blatantly plug their show in acceptance speeches, they could shave a good 45 minutes off the running time in future.

  12. @Carolemorrissey – Me too. I’m still pissed off. Buble was off his game and Birdie brought the mood down. Sad for me is that I will get over it in 12 months and will probably watch it again.

  13. But it started much later this year because of the Voice première didn’t they? 30 mins red carpet, strict 2 hour ceremony is all they need.

  14. Ridiculous for Nine to waste something like the Logies in this way. Why couldn’t they run it at 6.30pm and had The Voice start the next night?

  15. wow. That is low ratings, for what is Australia’s most ”prestigious” television award (the Gold Logie). I agree with that the Logies should be on earlier. Finishing at 12.30am is too late.

  16. It was the longest broadcast from what I can remember, normally ending around 11:30. the other thing the Logies is missing is the cross network skits. a skit like… Nina from offspring delivers a baby that turns out to be a Logie. or cast members from home and away or neighbours being questioned by police (actors who have played police officers) over a missing logie or logies. there really is no humour in the logies, unless someone tries to be funny…

  17. I was one of them, I stuck it out to the bitter end. But I was really pissed off when it was nearly time for the Gold to be handed out and another singer comes out, then a bloody ad break. I was screaming at the TV at that stage. Wonder if that drop between 8.30 and 10.00 was people switching over to Downton Abbey.

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