ABC pips TEN in ratings week

TEN’s recent ratings success has already been usurped by the ABC, thanks largely to the return of Gruen at the same time as MasterChef departed.

ABC pipped TEN by just 0.2% to nab the third-placed network last week.

But it was Seven’s first taste of Olympics that delivered it a stellar 46.3% network share on Saturday -and that’s before full competition gets underway. The Live Opening Ceremony on Saturday morning was the #1 show of the week.

Network:
Seven: 31.1
Nine: 25.9
ABC: 18.3
TEN: 18.2
SBS: 6.6

Primary channel:
Seven: 19.8
Nine: 17.7
ABC: 12.7
TEN: 12.5
SBS: 4.5

Multichannels:
7mate: 4.9
7TWO: 4.3
ABC2 / GO!: 3.6
ONE: 3.1
ELEVEN: 2.5
Gem / 9Life: 2.3
7flix: 2.0
ABC News 24: 1.3
SBS 2 / SBS Food Network: 0.9
ABC3: 0.7
NITV: 0.3

Seven won the Demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.

Seven scored all 5 cities and all 7 nights. ABC bettered TEN on Friday & Saturday.

Best brands this week were:

Seven: Olympics: (Opening Ceremony: 1.61m), Seven News (Sun: 1.21m), Sunday Night (804,000) and Highway Patrol (801,000).

Nine: Nine News (Sun: 1.17m), 60 Minutes (1.08m), A Current Affair (780,000) and Love Child (693,000).

ABC: Gruen (952,000), ABC News (778,000), Australian Story (768,000) and Four Corners (702,000).

TEN: The Bachelor (Wed: 819,000), Offspring (783,000), Have You Been Paying Attention? (736,000) and All Star Family Feud (668,000).

SBS: Pauline Hanson: Please Explain! (406,000), The Other Prince William (308,000), Rome: Empire Without Limit (256,000), The Nazi Games: Berlin 1936 (220,000).