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Is the 6pm News sliding?

Ratings: Nobody could manage to crack the magic million on a Tuesday.

2014-08-07_1253Viewing was again under the magic million last night as early as Tuesday -and this time bad weather in Sydney and Melbourne are unlikely to put the blame on daylight saving.

Once again neither Seven nor Nine news could top the million mark. While they did top their respective networks both were trumped in the demos, reminding us that it is older viewers keeping the total numbers high, while younger viewers are getting their news elsewhere.

Seven was first in primary channels but Nine’s multichannels pushed them over the line.

Nine network was 29.0% followed by Seven 28.3%, TEN 20.8%, ABC 17.1% and SBS 4.9%.

Nine News (983,000 / 951,000) was the night’s top show. Next for Nine were ACA (821,000), Big Brother (628,000) in an earlier timeslot, Hot Seat (547,000) and movie The Hunger Games (461,000).

Seven News (970,000 / 967,000) was best for Seven then Dancing with the Stars (946,000), Home and Away (928,000), and Million Dollar Minute (481,000). Scandal was 354,000.

NCIS was 691,000 for TEN. The Project was 620,000 / 414,000, Jamie’s Comfort Food was 589,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 586,000 and NCIS: LA was 498,000.

ABC News (750,000) was best for ABC then 7:30 (743,000), Foreign Correspondent (708,000), Flying Miners (640,000), QI (421,000) and At the Movies (387,000).

On SBS ONE it was Insight (215,000), The Sixties (211,000), Dateline (171,000) and SBS World News (131,000).

ABC2’s Octonauts topped multichannels with 274,000.

The Morning Show: 133,000 / 71,000
Mornings: 104,000
Studio 10: 55,000 / 25,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 14 October 2014

29 Responses

  1. Nothing good comes from commercial tv news. It’s boring, padded out crap that does nothing to dispel the belief that it is populist, scaremongering tosh.

    I read all the news I need on my lunch break from the BBC and ABC apps, and then when I get home I scan through reddit.

  2. I dont watch prime time news…I do sometimes watch TEN news….mostly read news online…well headlines…a few stories…
    But…last night…everything was unplugged…the storm was really bad…lightning strikes …wayy too close….very heavy rain on a metal roof…
    Listened to Steve Price 2GB on portable digital radio.

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