MAFS, Hard Quiz best in Wednesday entertainment.
Should Seven consider promoting The Front Bar to 7:30pm? Nine wins Wednesday.
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Married at First Sight is now in its final throes (there’s barely any other word for it) this season and still drawing bumper crowds…. and Seven might consider promoting The Front Bar to an earlier slot if it keeps having soft lead-ins.
Last night MAFS was #1 at 914,000 metro viewers, nearly double Hard Quiz (499,000), then 7:30 (423,000), The Dog House (304,000), Inside Cyprus (199,000) and Big Ben Restored: The Grand Unveiling (123,000).
Later The Weekly with Charlie Pickering was 426,000, followed by Under Investigation (306,000), The Front Bar (294,000), QI (268,000), Law & Order: SVU (132,000) and The Swap (94,000).
Nine network easily won Wednesday with 35.8%, then Seven 25.1%, ABC 17.2%, 10 14.1% and SBS 7.7%.
Nine News was 672,000 / 649,000 for Nine. A Current Affair won wth 614,000 then Hot Seat (325,000 / 216,000). Nine News Late was 153,000 and Footy Classifed was 79,000 in 3 cities.
Seven News won with 833,000 / 830,000. The Chase was 461,000 / 289,000 then Home & Away (453,000). A repeat of We Interrupt this Broadcast pulled 133,000.
ABC News was 499,000. Tom Gleeson: Joy (173,000) and The Drum (133,000) followed.
The Project was 261,000 / 155,000. 10 News First drew 210,000 / 144,000 then Fire Country (81,000).
On SBS it was SBS World News (105,000 / 105,000), Mastermind (57,000) with Mayflies just 35,000.
Bluey led multichannels at 98,000.
Sunrise: 233,000
Today: 192,000
News Breakfast: 83,000 / 51,000
In Total TV numbers last Wednesday were:
Married at First Sight: 1.91m
Under Investigation: 675,000
Home & Away: 937,000
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering: 690,000
The Dog House: 479,000
OzTAM Overnights: Wednesday 22 March 2023
- Tagged with 10 News First, 7:30, A Current Affair, ABC News, Big Ben Restored: The Grand Unveiling, Bluey, Fire Country, Footy Classifed, Hard Quiz, Home & Away, Hot Seat, Inside Cyprus, Law & Order: SVU, Married at First Sight, Mayflies, News Breakfast, Nine News, Qi, SBS World News, Seven News, Sunrise, The Chase, The Dog House, The Drum, The Front Bar, The Project, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Today, Tom Gleeson: Joy, Under Investigation, We Interrupt this Broadcast
13 Responses
I Think 7 should dump The Front Bar and put on some real entertainment shows this show is boring bring back comedy and drama to 7:30 pm like the they used to have
The fall of Nine News continues and it really seems both consistent and steady in its drop, with Melbourne and to a lesser extent Sydney representing the biggest drops. Also notable is that is has not resulted in more people watching Seven News (or even TEN), the viewers have simply left the building. When around 25% of your audience disappears it must raise questions but there is no obvious cause beyond the continuing diminution of free-to-air and strangely, no evidence of a response from Nine in terms of changing presenters, format, etc to try and increase viewers – with one exception.
What I have noticed with Nine from my perspective in Victoria is that they have had a very significant increase in borderline news – those almost paid-for advertorials disguised as news. Examples include the “Why you should put more into superannuation” with a cherry interview with the head of a fund, the “Specials at Woolworths this week” plug and the endless real estate industry pushes.
You hit the nail on the head about “almost paid-for advertorials disguised as news” Every night Brisbane Channel 7 have not one but several during the 6 pm bulletin. At the moment it is on housing loans and what’s on offer from various sources because we have a housing and rental crisis, they’re now turning their attention to home security companies because we have a youth crime wave. These are obviously designed for Channel 7 to benefit (ratings of course ) also to get the Queensland government to respond, it’s annoying the way they go about it. They also put useless information that doesn’t even relate to this state or country (someone towing an old caravan with bits falling on the road in SA, or someone doing a wheelie in a car going horribly wrong and getting wedged between 2 houses in the UK, someone fishing out a carpet snake from their backyard pool in the USA) what relevance this has to our daily lives is totally beyond me, they are just fill ins for an hour long news segment.
I do not think there is a need for an hour long news. Some of these are former Today Tonight segments. The worthwhile news is overlooked by these irrelevant pieces. But they prefer to have an hour of time wasting news. I generally only watch 15 minutes at the most of commercial news for this reason.
The Front Bar only rates OK in Melbourne, so moving it won’t make much change to it’s ratings. In Queensland we couldn’t give a stuff about AFL centric “The Front Bar”.
I don’t get the appeal of MAFS at all. It’s so toxic. The Doghouse has half the viewers, yet is brilliant.
Maybe MAFS viewers aren’t Dog lovers.
Ironic… because they’re watching a dog of a show
It’s car crash tv. Don’t tell me you don’t have a good look at a car crash as you drive past one?
I tried to stop watching MAFS this year but tuned in here and there (including last night) and once hooked I couldn’t look away.
Real people manipulated to perfection 😏
Inside Cyprus, at 7:30pm? Next week it’s Inside Detroit for 90 minutes. Words fail my 78 y/o brain to say anymore, other than “Welcome to Seven, ex-SBS programmer”.
The phrase is “treading water” until Q1 ends then resets after Easter.
Interesting programming choice for Seven at 7:30pm. It at least offered a one night reprieve from the reality shows for the network’s viewers.
As for promoting The Front Bar to 7:30, I think Seven should at least try it. It might not rate well outside of Melbourne, but it scores big there, and it would help Seven further cement its recent run of strong ratings down there.