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A Royal ratings week

Royal news dominated news broadcasts last week, with Seven pipping Nine at the post.

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Royal news dominated news broadcasts last week, but The Block still led entertainment with Nine pipped at the post in Total People due to Seven’s AFL Finals.

Network:
Seven: 31.6
Nine: 30.2
ABC: 15.7
10: 14.8
SBS: 7.8

Primary channel:
Seven: 23.2
Nine: 22.2
ABC: 10.9
10: 9.2
SBS: 4.2

Multichannels:
7mate: 3.6
7TWO: 3.1
10 Peach: 2.6
9GEM: 2.5
10 BOLD: 2.3
ABC TV Plus: 2.2
9GO! / ABC News: 2.1
9Life: 2.0
7flix: 1.7
9RUSH: 1.4
SBS VICELAND: 1.3
SBS Food: 1.1
SBS World Movies: 1.0
10 Shake: 0.8
ABC ME: 0.4
NITV: 0.2
SBS World Watch: 0.0

Nine led the demos 16-39 and 25-54.

Nine led across Sunday – Thursday. Seven claimed Friday & Saturday. ABC bettered 10 every night except Monday & Thursday.

Seven was victorious in Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth. Nine owned Sydney & Brissy.

Best brands last week were:

Seven: Seven News (Sat: 1.09m), Seven’s AFL (Sat: 1.08m), Farmer Wants a Wife (Sun: 575,000) and Home & Away (489,000).

Nine: The Block (Sun: 984,000), Nine News (6:30: 778,000), A Current Affair (596,000) and NRL (SF2: 563,000).

ABC: ABC News (Sun: 576,000), Australian Story (545,000), Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell (499,000) and 7:30 (471,000).

10: Have You Been Paying Attention? (545,000), Gogglebox (400,000), The Amazing Race Australia (Mon: 353,000) and The Cheap Seats (332,000).

SBS: Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story (145,000), Lighthouses: Building the Impossible and SBS World News (both 135,000), World’s Most Scenic River Journeys (130,000).

Infogram supplied by Nine:

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  2. A very interesting week. I think it just shows that without the AFL Channel 7 would probably be in a really bad spot. It always helps them be competitive. With Sydney making the GF this week too i expect a huge audience too. Kinda sucks we don’t get a night time GF but it is what it is.
    Will be interesting to see if the Queens Funeral breaks all ratings records tonight though.

  3. “Seven was victorious in Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth. Nine owned Sydney & Brissy”.
    No wonder there was such a bun fight over the footy broadcasting rights. Those with the rights are the winners (NRL in the north and AFL elsewhere)

    1. Agreed. You can bulk at the figure Seven forked out, but if it ends up winning you the ratings week by only two out of the seven nights, then money well spent.

      One wonders if Seven can afford to keep the Olympics? It not, they will certainly make Nine pay big for it considering Brisbane will be a home games. But by then, will the tv landscape be different with everyone watching on their mobiles rather than tv sets? Hmmm.

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