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Seven wins first US Presidential Debate

Ratings: Seven, ABC and SBS all ran the US Debate on Free to Air. Unreal Estate pips 800 Words in primetime.

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Yesterday’s Presidential Debate at the unfriendly time of 11am drew 274,000 viewers on Seven, 139,000 on ABC News 24 / 124,000 on ABC, and 49,000 on SBS.

Meanwhile in primetime The Block was the leading entertainment show with 933,000 viewers. Zumbo’s Just Desserts finale and Australian Survivor followed.

Unreal Estate‘s debut at 699,000 just pipped 800 Words with 695,000 at 8:45pm followed by ABC’s excellent Conviction at 605,000.

It was bad news for Sunrise with its lowest audience all year at 265,000, beaten by Today‘s 312,000.

Delta’s Goodrem’s Who Do You Think You Are? was best on SBS but the lowest in the current season at 341,000.

While Nine won the primary channels, Seven’s multichannels pushed it over the line for a network win with 28.9% then Nine 27.2%, TEN 19.8%, ABC 17.5% and SBS 6.5%.

Seven News was #1 with 1.18m / 1.17m for Seven then Home and Away (774,000), Zumbo’s Just Desserts (762,000), The Chase (715,000 / 461,000), 800 Words (695,000) and The Big Bang Theory (367,000 / 279,000).

Nine News (999,000 / 982,000) was best for Nine followed by The Block (933,000), A Current Affair (884,000), Unreal Estate (699,000) and Hot Seat (488,000). Footy Classified was 237,000 in 3 cities and the overtitled Multi Million Dollar Mega Yachts drew 182,000 in 2 cities.

Australian Survivor (691,000) was best for TEN. The Project drew 665,000 / 409,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 439,000, NCIS was 346,000 and NCIS: LA was just 264,000.

ABC News (800,000), 7:30 (650,000), Conviction (605,000), Catalyst (520,000) and Foreign Correspondent (362,000) comprised ABC’s night.

On SBS it was Who Do You Think You Are? (341,000), Insight (237,000), Dateline (160,000) and SBS World News (131,000).

7mate’s Highway Patrol was best on multichannels at 301,000.

Today Extra: 157,000 / 74,000
The Morning Show: 145,000
Studio 10: 78,000 / 45,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 27 September 2016

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  4. I wish I had known it was on ABC as I watched on my laptop on ch7. Awful service, kept dropping out and running ‘olympic’ based ads. Probably the worst streaming service around. The Donald was great though…..Delta on WhoDoYouThink had zero appeal, dunno why but she just generates no interest, too bland maybe, not sure.

    1. Given Sky News’ highest mid-evening (predominantly right-wing) talk shows [Jones & Co.; The Bolt Report, Paul Murray Live] generally rate around 30k to 50k (at most), I’d wader Sky’s coverage of the Trump/Clinton debate wouldn’t be above those kind of figures. However, David might be able to elaborate on yesterday’s specific data.
      Another – very significant aspect – is not being on FTA/Freeview severely limits the potential reach, irrespective of the quality output Sky News often produces.

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