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Nine News hits high in news battle

Nine News drew its highest rated bulletin of the year. Home & Away & Have You Been Paying Attention? top entertainment.

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On Monday Nine drew its highest rated bulletin of the year as the 6pm battle continued.

Nine News was #1 at 1.45m pipping Seven News at 1.41m, after rounding.

Home & Away topped entertainment at 907,000 in National TV Audience.

Have You Been Paying Attention? was next at 820,000.

7:30 led its slot at 761,000 followed by Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Jackpot (604,000) around double its early audience, Stuff the British Stole (577,000), from 8pm Beyond the Dream: Race to Paris (517,000). Seven’s The Hunters doco drew 460,000.

Elsewhere Four Corners was 700,000 then Media Watch (681,000).

The Chase averaged 711,000 for Seven with Alert: Missing Persons Unit on 227,000.

An extended A Current Affair averaged 935,000 while Tipping Point won its slot at 791,000. Footy Classified was 169,000 and 100% Footy was 135,000 where they screened.

ABC News was up at 976,000. Hard Quiz (390,000), Monday’s Experts (314,000), Antiques Roadshow (249,000) followed.

The Project scored 379,000 for 10 then 10 News First (375,000), Deal or No Deal (363,000) and Ghosts (281,000).

On SBS it was SBS World News (238,000 / 178,000), Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes (150,000), Mastermind (98,000) and The Great Climate Fight (65,000).

Today show in Paris enjoyed a lift, but so did Sunrise as news events broke in US politics.

Sunrise: 408,000
Today: 367,000
News Breakfast: 254,000

National Total TV: Monday 22 July 2024

15 Responses

  1. Channel 7 is a Total Joke!!
    It’s even hard to put Channel 7 on Anymore..
    Channel 9 is my new Favourite & go to Channel. Also Today Show is better now, Sunrise is getting repetitively lame boring!
    No more Channel 7, they’re off their heads now.!!

  2. I know everything I need to know ’cause Peter told me so!…and big numbers all round as everyone is staying inside their nice warm homes.

  3. Re, 6pm news ratings: Surely it’d be a case of Nine winning Sydney, Northern NSW (under the NBN News brand), Melbourne and South East Queensland while Seven continue to dominate in Adelaide, Perth and the rest of regional Australia? So if Nine News have big enough numbers in their four strongest markets, it’d likely result in them winning the national ratings.

    Can’t speak for everywhere else, but from a Sydney perspective I reckon Seven should have Michael Usher on Sunday-Thursday, Angela Cox on Friday/Saturday and swap the roles of Mel McLaughlin and Matt Carmichael around. Might be seen as an attempt to copy Nine’s presenter dynamics, but evidently people here like it (or at least, not mind it enough).

  4. It doesn’t help Seven ratings in Brisbane either now they regularly show footage of different stories they are reporting on…last night it was Lime scooters making a comeback in Brisbane but the footage was for cost of living tips on private health cover….kudos to Max Futcher for staying calm and carrying on…including the long pause after he reported on an Aldi recall of chicken nuggets…all this even threw Shane Webcke off his segment a bit…because he looked slightly stunned as well.

    1. I think the issue is NSW and Vic (and to a lesser extent QLD) rather than national numbers per-se. But last nights numbers show seven isn’t losing viewers, nine is growing the pie – seven at 1.41m would normally be in front of nine by 250k. More viewers are tuning in and turning to 9.

    2. The horoscopes are ridiculous, however somewhat embarrassingly, the inclusion of a star rating out of 5 for each star sign has sucked us in. We find ourselves in our household purposely tuning in at about 6:50pm everynight now just to check out what star rating we have for the next day. It provides some laughs when we see that our day tomorrow is predicted to be a one star day, and we might as well just stay in bed for the day. Definitely not to be taken seriously but still an interesting addition to the nightly news.

  7. Celebrity Deal did better than expected given the risk of brand fatigue (and The Project’s piss-weak lead-in) by playing two episodes in the space of an evening, so, I would imagine Ten to be quite happy with that.

    1. Plus there would be the benefit of advertising the main version of the show (I noticed a few pop ups saying “Deal or No Deal – 6pm weeknights”)

    2. I don’t usually watch Deal, but did tune in for the celebrity version. Seemed more appealing as a short run game show rather than a staple.

  8. Seems to have been a lot of interest in the aftermath of Jo Biden’s decision and the networks all provided extensive coverage.

    As Media Watch covered Seven in all their state bulletins last week had a word for word story from Amazon’s press release about a sale of some kind including warehouse tours and the like. Can they really sink any lower than four minute in-broadcast informercials on their flagship news?

    1. They even had it in their headlines at 6PM. Its amazing they never went with Breaking News when they did the story to highlight this incredible event.

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