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Nine News tops Sunday as Olympic curtain falls

Dancing with the Stars topped entertainment as last medals are handed out in Paris.

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2024 Olympics officially wrapped this morning with the Closing Ceremony, which gets a primetime repeat tonight and falls into numbers on Tuesday. But there is a 60 Minutes special on athletes and of course the Paralympics still to come.

Nine News topped Sunday night at 1.45m viewers in National TV Audience, outranking Seven News at 1.25m.

Olympics drew up to 1.42m for Session #2 then 1.41m for Night and 557,000 for Late.

Dancing with the Stars led entertainment at 882,000 then a Vera repeat (531,000), and Top Gun: Maverick (303,000).

Malpractice on Seven wrapped with 197,000.

ABC News was 756,000 then Antiques Roadshow (274,000) and Fifteen Love (169,000).

10 News First managed 290,000 / 200,000. The Sunday Project at 6:30pm for the final time was 255,000.

On SBS it was SBS World News (207,000 / 146,000), Secret Lives of the Roman Emperors (140,000) and Robin’s Wish (86,000).

National Total TV: Sunday 11 August 2024

Corrected.

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  1. I think that Nine will hold more viewers duirng post-Olympics with the return of Tipping Point and The Block as well as the Paralympics (which starts in 16 days time). Nine is poised for a strong 2nd half of ratings year.

    1. I see it slightly differently. Based on the numbers seven news and sunrise were holding during Olympics, suspect we will resume normal ratings. Yes the block and TP will do well but so will sevens the voice and afl finals. Reckon seven will feel ok in taking the year even though nine have a good chance taking this week with a day or so of Olympics included in this week.

      1. The AFL Finals is nearly there and this depends on how well the teams are performing. I’d argue that the AFL GF will be No 1 program in terms of average audience, however this will depend on the popularity of the teams. Syd and GWS are destined for Finals and I wonder whether the AFL would be happy for a non-Victorian GF?

        1. From a Sydney perspective, I think Seven’s dream would be for a Swans vs Giants AFL Grand Final and for the NRL Grand Final to be an all-interstate affair. Based on the current latter status of our two biggest footy codes, the former possibly could happen this year but the latter isn’t a realistic prospect.

          Overall though, I’d probably expect Melbourne to be the main ratings battleground for the final quarter of 2024 given that Nine was probably dominating the key NRL markets of Sydney, South East QLD and Northern NSW even before the games, while Seven obviously has its vice-like grip on Adelaide, Perth and most of Regional Australia.

  2. Goodmorning David. Unless I am reading the ratings incorrectly, seven news was 1,251k rather than 1,441k? Still a bit of a mystery / inconsistency to me why Olympics are excluded (first mystery) but only for the core two weeks (second mystery: if you’ve decided to exclude them, why not exclude all of them) and the para olympics are included in the ratings year….

    1. Thanks Seven News number is corrected. Two weeks of Olympics are normally excluded from annual share (along with Comm Games) because advertisers set rates based on average performances. TVT publishes numbers 365 days a year (unless unavailable!).

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