Origin match tops the year with 2.43m viewers
Ratings: Maroons take down Blues with Nine scoring the biggest audience so far in 2015.
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The first State of Origin was always going to be big -it was just a question of how big.
In the end  a massive 2.43m viewers watched the Maroons defeat the Blues at ANZ Stadium, making it the biggest audience so far in 2015.
Sydney tuned in with a whopping 1.09m viewers, with 769,000 in Brisbane and 380,000 in Melbourne.
1.55m watched the pre-match and 1.02m stayed for the post-match. The only title it couldn’t grab was outranking 2014’s 2.6m viewers for Game I.
Nine stormed the night with more than double Seven in share -but it’s a given that Seven does not program competitively against such dominance and offers a staggered schedule.
Elsewhere MasterChef held up well against Sport for TEN. Nine also had wins with A Current Affair and Today.
Nine network pulled a 44.4% share then Seven 21.3%, TEN 17.2%,  ABC 12.4% and SBS 4.7%.
Following the Origin numbers, A Current Affair hit a 2015 high (1.2m), ahead of Nine News (1.1m / 1.08m) and Hot Seat (634,000). Movie: Mad Max was 256,000.
Seven News was 999,000 / 929,000 for Seven then Home and Away (743,000), Criminal Minds (557,000 / 422,000) and Million Dollar Minute (545,000). House Rules ran in 3 cities with 410,000 (Sydney and Brisbane air tonight) and Border Security International was 255,000 in 2 cities.
MasterChef settled on 934,000 but remained the top non-News / Sport title. Â The Project was 627,000 / 481,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 615,000, Madam Secretary was 440,000 and Law and Order: SVU was 252,000. Â Hawaii Five 0 was 151,000.
ABC also had a quiet night with ABC News (745,000), 7:30 (601,000), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (448,000), The Agony of Life (444,000), QI (443,000), Antiques Roadshow (332,000) and 8MMM (182,000).
On SBS ONE it was Neil Oliver: The Vikings (241,000), 24 Hours in Emergency (201,000), SBS World News (152,000), Food Safari (133,000) and The Legacy (80,000).
Big Bang was best on multichannels at 248,000.
Today: 317,000
Sunrise: 315,000
ABC News Breakfast: 99,000 / 52,000
OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 27 May 2015
- Tagged with 24 Hours in Emergency, 7:30, 8MMM, A Current Affair, ABC News, ABC News Breakfast, Antiques Roadshow, Border Security: International, Criminal Minds, Food Safari, Hawaii Five-0, Home and Away, Hot Seat, House Rules, Law and Order: SVU, Madam Secretary, MasterChef Australia, Million Dollar Minute, Nine News, Qi, SBS World News, Seven News, State of Origin, Sunrise, TEN Eyewitness News, The Agony of Life, The Big Bang Theory, The Legacy, The Project, The Vikings, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Today
22 Responses
Masterchef held up very well against Masterchef. Ten’s promotion of Madam Secretary was nothing short of bizarre. Rather than promoting it as the series return it was advertised as a new show launch. Confusing to say the least.
over rated ch9 nrl joke clubs loose players for club games and it started 22 mins after the advertised time then ran 19 mins over FTA is a joke for start times dont they own a wall clock
I wish that Seven and Nine would stop forfeiting these big event nights to each other – Masterchef’s result shows that House Rules could quite easily have returned a decent number, perhaps even getting a slight boost because of the absence of Reno Rumble.
Don’t know why NRL origin rates so high ? AFL is still the best game in the country.
Says you others disagree
I’ll agree with jshaw, and I’m not even that into AFL :P
I was on TEN…but turned off Hawaii Five 0
Origin sure is a huge tentpole for ch9
on a related matter…pronounce the following…..hoon, goon, soon, room, pontoon……and then maroon…..don’t those folk up there speak properly???
Oh please Jezza, I’ve never heard maroon pronounced as anything other than ma-rone :)
It’s not a word that gets spoken much here in the west but when it is, people mostly say it as it’s spelt, which is standard UK pronunciation.
Awesome numbers for the origin. It’ll be interesting to see if the same amount of people watch the SOO Game2 in Melbourne.
David correct me if I’m wrong but is that first time this year the today show has beaten sunrise.
Madam Secretary should’ve been shown tonight.
channel 10 tonight should be like this
MCA
Madam Secretary (Return)
Law and Order SVU (New)
Blue Bloods
No it’s not.
Pretty good for MCA. Hope TEN realise the value of alternative viewing, so you know they might stop showing the same program on multiple channels at the same time.
A repeat of Agony makes the Top 20. Good result.
Yes.
Why just the one repeat of an ep halfway through an old series though?
They must’ve been looking for a place holder so Home Delivery didn’t premiere on Origin night.
TEN should have waited to launch Madam Secretary. Who launches a series against State of Origin? Good results for Origin.
I don’t believe they repeated the first half of the season on a multi channel or during the day either. I was waiting for that as I missed a couple of episodes last year. Why wouldn’t they try to get some more viewers?
As much as Ten tried to pretend they were launching a new show they were in fact just continuing with episode #1.12, so people have had 11 previous chances plus catch-ups to check it out, and have missed all the exposition if they haven’t.
It didn’t rate better when fast-tracked on Thursdays and did much better than Wonderland has averaged in the slot, (not against the SOT). Ten needs and established show to benefit from Masterchef’s lead in but take a hit from 3 Wednesdays of SOT in Sydney and Brisbane spread out over a couple of months.
Launching CSI:Cyber would’ve been suicide though.
madam secretary was getting mid 600ks when it aired last on Thursdays.
hmm did they not split the pre-match and post match as separate programs
Yes as noted.