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Viewers turn to News bulletins during Sydney storm

Ratings: News and current affairs shows across the board drew high numbers due to wild weather in Sydney.

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Storms battering Sydney drove up News and current affairs bulletins across the board last night.

Nine News led the battle, as high as 1.27m viewers over Seven’s 1.1m. But even bulletins on ABC (958,000), TEN (663,000) and SBS (176,000) were above average. Similarly, A Current Affair (1.1m) had its biggest audience all year, while 7:30 and The Project also performed well.

In Sydney Nine News was as high as 469,000 viewers, over Seven’s 326,000 -the latter, which had sent Mark Ferguson to sunny Gallipoli led with Sam Armytage presenting in Sydney for the first 20 minutes. It also added a special 5pm bulletin for Sydney.

In breakfast television Today’s win in Sydney brought the show to a whisper of Sunrise: 328,000 for Seven and 327,000 for Nine.

Seven network won the night with 30.7% then Nine 28.3%, TEN 18.2%, ABC 16.9% and SBS 5.9%.

My Kitchen Rules still rules with 1.46m viewers for Seven then Seven News (1.1m / 1.01m), Home and Away (822,000), the Movie: Iron Man 3 and Million Dollar Minute (both on 535,000).

Nine had three shows over a million viewers. Nine News (1.27m / 1.14m), A Current Affair (1.1m) and The Block (1.04m). Big Bang was 795,000 / 613,000 / 509,000 then Hot Seat (592,000), 2 Broke Girls (336,000 / 208,000).

TEN Eyewitness News led for TEN on 663,000 viewers. NCIS was 611,000, The Project was 592,000 / 406,000, NCIS: LA was 498,000 and Bondi Rescue was 460,000.

ABC News (958,000) was strong for ABC then 7:30 (753,000), Why ANZAC with Sam Neill (589,000), Foreign Correspondent (543,000) and Antiques Roadshow (347,000).

On SBS ONE it was Russia’s Lost Princesses (320,000), Insight (192,000), SBS World News (176,000) and Dateline (138,000).

We have a new multichannel champ in ABC2’s Tree Fu Tom (261,000).

The Morning Show: 147,000 / 96,000
Mornings: 145,000
Studio 10: 70,000 / 40,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 21 April 2015

13 Responses

  1. TCN reporters in Dungog during the storms in which some houses were washed away… sad as the sight of those destroyed houses was, what was obscene was a reporter from Station TCN-Sydney intruding on NBN’s coverage area. Station NBN-Newcastle’s exclusive coverage area stretches from just north of the Hawkesbury River, up to just over the Qld/NSW border. Exclusive because Prime and Northern Rivers Television have both abrogated their responsibilities to the regions they were meant to serve. Station TCN reporters should stay in Sydney and leave the rest of NSW to NBN(northern half) and WIN(southern half).

  2. Seven’s attempt to cash in on the ANZAC centenary has seriously backfired. Sending its three top newsreaders to cover an event that warrants only one of them, the cast of Sunrise and numerous reporters is no different to Woolworths ‘fresh in our memories’ scandal. The only people who need to be there are Chris Bath and Ben Roberts-Smith to host Seven’s coverage on Saturday. The plan to telecast whole news bulletins from Gallipoli was ludicrous and an obvious attempt to chase ratings in the very poorly performing Sydney market. Shame on Seven.

  3. @Jason
    Totally agree one day a flying object will come through the air and do some damage to the reporter and after the authorities told people to stay indoors they were irresponsible

  4. thats good numbers for the today show and mornings both shows that i like. David do you the numbers for news battle in queensland. Is channel 9 winning that battle

        1. Well, as per today’s Ratings page, 9 beat 7 by 5% in the first half-hour, 7 beat 9 by 17% in the second half-hour, so as for who’s where, it depends on what figures you want to use. I don’t live in Qld.

  5. Still laughing at the absurdities of “Dwayne”and “Bambi” standing out in 100kph winds and torrential rain, trying to voice overlays recorded elsewhere hours earlier, with backdrops of a few street lights, which could be anywhere. So much easier to understand what the autocue reader is saying from his/her Ultimo/Martin Place/Artarmon studio. Still, the sight of “Bambi’s” carefully coiffured hair being whipped around her head by a 100kph wind, with torrential rain exfoliating her makeup, did add a light touch to a bad-news day. These live-crosses-to-somewhere-just-to-show-that-we-can are ridiculous.

      1. Never understood the concept of a reporter standing out anywhere…does not add anything to the news report…often appears to me…they are overlaid onto the scene also….

  6. If I’m not mistaken ratings for studio 10 are up about 30% with Chrissy Swan( im sure there usualIy around 45-50k)wonder if that will be repeated today and if so will she become permanent?

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