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Winter Olympics deliver another night to Seven

MAFS tops entertainment but Seven wins by keeping Olympics viewers into the night.

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The Winter Olympics have given Seven their third night in a row this week, by keeping viewers on the network late into the evening.

The Hundred with Andy Lee was the sole show that managed to stay competitive against the Games beyond 9pm, however there is a caveat to direct timeslot comparisons. Perth viewers are seeing Late sessions early in the evening due to the time difference.

Married at First Sight was again best in entertainment at 913,000, ahead of  Australian Survivor (500,000),  Winter Olympics (Evening: 489,000)  7:30 (472,000) and Outback Ringer (242,000).

The Winter Olympics (Night: 557,000) then took the lead, ahead of The Hundred with Andy Lee (450,000), NCIS (197,000), and Catalyst (171,000).

Winter Olympics Late drew a further 450,000.

Seven network won Tuesday with 33.1% then Nine 30.2%, 10 17.3%, ABC 12.5% and SBS 6.9%.

Seven News was #1 at 931,000 / 904,000 for Seven. Home & Away was 487,000 then The Chase (470,000 / 343,000).

Nine News drew 849,000 / 841,000 for Nine. A Current Affair won its slot at 663,000 then Hot Seat (385,000 / 252,000).

The Project pulled 362,000 / 222,000 for 10. 10 News First was 274,000 / 172,000. An NCIS repeat was 124,000.

ABC News was 616,000 for ABC. The Drum (156,000) and Joanna Lumley and the Human Swan (152,000) followed.

On SBS it was Great Continental Railway Journeys (195,000), SBS World News (124,000 / 107,000), Mastermind (73,000), Dolly: The Sheep that Changed the World (67,000) and Tonya Harding: The Price of Gold (40,000).

Neighbours topped multichannels at 118,000.

Sunrise: 250,000
Today: 215,000
News Breakfast: 113,000 / 79,000

In Total TV numbers last Tuesday were:
Married at First Sight: 1.8m
Australian Survivor: 917,000
Home & Away: 1.1m
Outback Ringer: 529,000

OzTAM Overnights: Tuesday 8 February 2022

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  2. Watching all the Olympics live on 7+ for the first time fully, avoided FTA and it’s much better experience and uninterrupted, start to finish with no commercial breaks or in-studio breaks from Sydney. Waaaay better doing it this way.

  3. Shares surprisingly very close this week between Seven and Nine (could become tied with time shifting seeing Married’s big increases), considering PyeongChang’s margins in 2018 and also the declines this Olympics, Seven must be a bit disappointed the earlier night isn’t more competitive. Only really late night when there’s nothing else on that is helping them.

    Also are you positive evening isn’t actually before night in the Beijing Winter Olympics? I’d double check that. If so, it’s actually put Seven’s 7:30pm below Survivor and some 500k behind Married!

    Also, I wonder how long late stretches, as the telecasts have been going until 2:30am eastern, I take it there’s no other overnight or post midnight figure split out?

    2. I am not sure that Seven will be too disappointed. MAFS is a juggernaut for nine. Winter Olympics rates less than Summer; I agree that time shifting will make it close and could upset sevens 2022 hopes of being number 1 (I guess the Comm games could help but nine have the t20 to counter). But if seven can steal 1 or 2 weeks from MAFS, seven would take that I reckon.

  4. Assuming Hot Seat’s two half hours are still coded separately, it would appear that 3pm Tipping Point outrated 5pm Hot Seat…Food for thought, Channel 9!

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