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News bulletins drive Tuesday ratings

Ratings: Nightly news bulletins topped 4 of our 5 channels last night, with Nine taking the night.

2014-08-06_1012.jpgNightly news bulletins topped 4 of our 5 channels last night, for all but SBS.

In the 6pm battle Nine won big in Sydney & Melbourne, with a closer win in Brissy. Seven continues to dominate in Adelaide and Perth.

Nine Network won with 31.6% then Seven 29.7%, TEN 17.2%, ABC 15.1% and SBS 6.4%.

Nine News (1.14m / 1.05m) topped the night for Nine then The Block (1.13m), ACA (1.01m), Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year South America (1.00m), Hot Seat (627,000), and Big Bang (500,000 / 364,000).

Seven News (1.12m / 1.07m) was best for Seven then X Factor (1.09m), Home and Away (918,000), Winners and Losers (848,000) and Million Dollar Minute (620,000). Chicago Fire was 364,000 / 230,000.

TEN Eyewitness News (631,000) led for TEN then The Project (617,000 / 450,000). Save with Jamie last in its slot at 440,000, NCIS was 436,000 and Under the Dome was 349,000.

ABC News (820,000) remains ABC’s best performer followed by 7:30 (634,000), Foreign Correspondent (556,000), QI (462,000), At the Movies (396,000) and Life at 9 (391,000).

Who Do You Think You Are? (467,000) defeated TEN’s 7:30 fare. Next for SBS ONE were Insight (283,000), SBS World News (170,000) and Dateline (150,000).

The Morning Show: 158,000
Mornings: 112,000
Studio 10: 62,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 5 August 2014

6 Responses

  1. The fatigue in Reality is mostly due to their over blown running times here in Aus. When The Voice started going for nearly 3 hours, I just couldn’t take it any more. If they went back to packaging them in neat hourly blocks, it would be better. Remember the old adage, leave them wanting more.

  2. Reality is beginning to wane. It will go the same way as other genres.

    In the mid-2000s, it was all about the big name US dramas, with Lost, Desperate Housewives, CSI, NCIS, House etc dominating the ratings.

    Around 2008, factuals were the craze, with hit shows like Border Security, RSPCA, Customs, Find My Family. Seven in particular were very reliant on them. Eventually the viewers tired of factual overload and ratings began to decline.

    Then Ten launched MCA, and for the past few years it’s been all about big reality tentpoles. However, the decline of reality due to viewer fatigue is inevitable, but the question is what will replace it? Whoever figures it out will weld enormous ratings power.

  3. On a Tuesday night in the middle of Winter, the highest rating show can only pull 1.1million viewers. It says a lot about the standard and originality of programming on offer right now from the FTA networks. We’ve seen it all before and are clearly bored.

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