ABC mad for Wednesday slots
Ratings: Aside from early evening, ABC led most slots on Wednesday night.
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As Wednesdays go, it was a pretty straightforward evening last night, won by Nine, but with ABC shows leading a number of slots.
The Block led in entertainment at 742,000.
That outranked Hard Quiz (696,000), The Bachelor (617,000), 7:30 (616,000) and Highway Patrol (387,000 / 377,000).
Later Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell led with 598,000, Australian Crime Stories (492,000), Utopia (354,000).
Elsewhere Sunrise held its lead while Today dipped, just ahead of News Breakfast.
Nine network won Wednesday with 27.6% then Seven 26.4%, ABC 18.0%, 10 17.8% and SBS 10.2%.
Nine News was 986,000 / 977,000 for Nine. A Current Affair won its slot at 768,000 and Hot Seat (453,000 / 279,000). Murder Calls pulled 260,000.
Seven News was #1 at 1.04m / 977,000 for Seven. The Chase (597,000 / 358,000) and Home and Away (565,000) followed. Movie: Kingsman: The Golden Circle drew 297,000.
ABC News drew 759,000. Planet America led its slot (320,000) then The Drum (188,000) for ABC.
The Project pulled 505,000 / 325,000 for 10. 10 News First was 316,000 / 233,000 then Bull (239,000 / 176,000).
On SBS both Hillary and Arabia with Levison Wood drew a level 211,000. SBS World News was 178,000, then Tour de France (169,000) and Mastermind managed 87,000.
7TWO’s The Coroner led multichannels at 177,000.
Sunrise: 255,000
Today: 215,000
News Breakfast: 135,000 / 73,000
OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 16 September 2020
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13 Responses
Is H&A considered in the “danger zone” with those numbers? Or is it geting huge streaming numbers? Neighbors was ousted to eleven when it’s numbers fell to the 500k range, but it was a different landscape back then. Just curious.
No indication Seven is thinking this way. Neighbours fee dropped when it moved to 11, but Seven owns H&A.
Another headline you could have used is “ABC goes in hard on Wednesday”.
ABC plays hard on Wednesday as 10 struggles.
ABC entertains us on Wednesday. Hard.
How many episodes has Hard Quiz got in the can David? Last night’s episode was billed as S5E25.
I’m not complaining… I hope it goes on forever! But surely they are running out of fresh eps…
ABC looks set to keep the ratings going with those 45 second epsiodes of “Vera” teased on Mad as Hell last night. They could be a real winner.
Hard Quiz never disappoints, even when I have no interest in the expert subjects.
Yes, for me it’s all about the casting of the contestants and Tom’s one-liners.
Seems like Channel 7 wins the night when they have AFL. When the footy is on pay-tv only (like tonight), or not on at all, the evening goes to Nine.
Been that way for years. Only time Nine wins against AFL is against a special one off event.
Unfortunately no footy on here last night. I imagine the hotch-potch schedule of where the AFL is shown muddies the waters of the ratings.
Last night was not one of the nights that ABC News won it’s slot David.
Thanks Tim for spotting, my apologies. Slap.