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Bumper SBS share scores in latest ratings week

Ratings: FIFA World Cup delivers SBS their biggest audience in 4 years.

SBS scored its biggest share all year last week thanks to the FIFA World Cup.

The Socceroos match against Denmark was the top-rating show of the week at 1.66m viewers. It was the biggest audience on SBS in 4 years. SBS managed an equal network share with ABC in the primary channel share of 11.3%.

But the week again went to Seven.

Network:
Seven: 28.5
Nine: 24.9
TEN: 18.0
ABC: 15.5
SBS: 13.1

Primary channel
Seven: 18.4
Nine: 16.6
TEN: 13.1
ABC / SBS: 11.3

Multichannels:
7mate: 4.1
9GO!: 3.8
7TWO: 3.7
ONE: 2.8
9GEM: 2.6
ABC KIDS COMEDY: 2.4
7flix: 2.3
ELEVEN: 2.0
9Life: 1.9
ABC News: 1.2
SBS VICELAND: 0.9
SBS Food Network: 0.8
ABC ME: 0.6
NITV: 0.1

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

Seven won Monday – Saturday while Nine scored Sunday. SBS bettered Nine, TEN & ABC on Thursday. ABC bettered TEN on Friday.

Seven claimed Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth while Nine held in Sydney.

Best brands last week were:

Seven: Seven News (Sun: 1.25m), House Rules (Sun: 910,000), Home and Away (693,000) and The Chase (639,000).

Nine: Nine News (Sun: 1.12m), The Voice (Winner Announced: 1.06m), A Current Affair (775,000) and Young Sheldon (Ep 1: 585,000).

TEN: Have You Been Paying Attention? (864,000), MasterChef Australia (Tues: 863,000), Shark Tank (567,000), and The Project (7pm: 510,000).

SBS: FIFA World Cup (Den v Aus: 1.66m), Sinkholes: Deadly Drops (286,000), Great British Railway Journeys (199,000) and Definitive Guide to Sea Monsters (174,000).

ABC: Gruen (761,000), ABC News (674,000), The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (644,000) and Back Roads (632,000).

Corrected.

2 Responses

  1. Hi David, (I don’t like to correct you but I know for the article you appreciate it), it looks like the sentence regarding ABC/SBS network shares is a bit muddled. ABC & SBS stations getting 11.3% but SBS network 13.1%, ABC Network 15.4%

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