Saturday February 12
With no crowds allowed into Melbourne Park for the next five days, and with Aussies Barty and De Minaur playing tonight, Nine will have bumper ratings for its tennis coverage.
Australian Open day 6 0.33m
Australian Open night 6 0.81m / 0.77m
Australian Open night 6 late 0.24m
Movie: Thor Rpt 0.25m
Movie: Thor: The Dark World Rpt 0.23m
Hard to know whatâll happen tonight. Either way, no crowds is a huge difference in the look, sound and feel of matches. But then you have an entire state locked-down. So pushes and pulls.
Iâll play it safe (wonât be close to last nightâs Kyrgios numbers):
550k (night averaged). Wouldâve been 100k-200k higher with roaring crowds, IMO. Hope Iâm wrong though.
Gogglebox should be the top show (outside news) tonight and will do good key demos, but will be affected by a bad lead-in and the tennis (depending how close and long the Djokovic semi final goes) and Nine should still easily win the night.
19 Feb 2021
Australian Open Day 12 - 250k
Australian Open Night 12 - 598k
Super Rugby AU - Reds v Waratahs - 130k (9GEM)
Better Homes and Gardens - 482k
Con AIr - 289k
The Living Room - 355k
THe Graham NOrton Show - 280k
One of the biggest sporting weekends of 2021 is here and Nine will dominate.
Friday February 19
Australian Open day 12 0.22m
Australian Open night 12 0.63m / 0.58m
Super Rugby: Reds v Waratahs 0.16m (9Gem)
Better Homes and Gardens 0.43m
Movie: Con Air Rpt 0.27m
The Living Room Rpt 0.34m
The Graham Norton Show 0.31m
Saturday February 20
The AO womenâs final will be down on last year but Nine will still win by a big margin.
Australian Open womenâs singles final 0.81m
Australian Open womenâs singles final: post-match presentation 0.59m
NRL All Stars: Indigenous v Maori 0.14m (9Gem)
Holey Moley: Road to Glory special 0.31m
Movie: The Avengers: Age of Ultron Rpt 0.29m
20 Feb 2021
Womenâs singles final will drop from last year, but Nine will still win during that night.
Australian open womenâs final - 791k
Australian open womenâs presentation - 543k
Rugby League: Indigenous all stars v Maori all stars - 230k (GEM)
Holey moley road to glory special - 304k
With Holey Moley failing to fire and Amazing Race only doing mediocre (and 10 are often lower on Sundays anyway with Seven having a direct lead-in from news)âŚ
Itâll be all one way traffic for the Australian Open final with Djokovic and Nine tonight! With the match anticipated and some saying it could go the distance with the two players very similar long rallies, there could be huge shares coming too.
Aus Open final: 1.3m metro
(this could still be an all time low though?)
21 February 2021
Australian Open Menâs Final Will drop from last year but Nine will still win the night by a big margin.
Australian Open Menâs singles final - 1.345m
Australian Open Menâs Presentations - 1.045m
Holey Moley - 434k
The amazing race - 607k