I did enjoyed it
Huge ratings for the ABC for the coverage.
One wonders why no commercial network would regain the rights for this. Plenty of commercial opportunities.
In saying that from what Iâve seen and read the ABC did a good job.
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Millions of Australians welcome in the new year with ABC and donate to Red Cross
Australians around the country and people around the world turned to the ABC on New Yearâs Eve to celebrate the biggest night of the year and to support bushfire-affected communites. The ABCâs Party of the Decades reached 3.5 million viewers and helped raise more than $2 million dollars for the Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.
The fund allows Red Cross emergency teams to do their work â including in the bushfires and heatwaves weâre currently seeing, and disasters yet to come. It also includes recovery programs, practical support and emergency grants in communities affected by the recent bushfires.
Director of ABC Regional & Local Judith Whelan said Australians had turned to the ABC in their millions to connect, celebrate and support those in need: "The ABCâs New Yearâs Eve broadcast brought together millions of Australians in support of bushfire-affected communities. Thank you to everyone who gave so generously to our joint appeal with the Australian Red Cross and City of Sydney, which raised more than $2 million to help people in need across the country.
âI would also like to thank the ABC staff and crews who worked through the night to bring our New Yearâs Eve coverage to audiences here and overseas. Thanks, too, to the ABC broadcasters, reporters, presenters, producers, staff and crew who continue to deliver emergency broadcasting services to communities under threat. People turn to the ABC at such times and we are proud of our role in helping to keep them informed and safe.â
Television and iview Audiences
⢠Last night, ABC was the leading network in the metro markets with a 5 city metro prime-time share of 26.3% (2018 result was 22.0%). The highest share was in Sydney, with a prime-time share of 35.4%.
⢠ABC TVâs New Yearâs Eve: Midnight Fireworks was the #1 program of the night, New Yearâs Eve: Countdown to Midnight was ranked #2 and New Yearâs Eve: Family Fireworks was ranked #3.
⢠New Yearâs Eve: Midnight Fireworks achieved an average audience of 1.8 million across ABC and ABC NEWS (Combined Metro & Regional.)
⢠New Yearâs Eve: Countdown to Midnight achieved an average audience of 1.2 million on ABC (Combined Metro & Regional).
⢠New Yearâs Eve: Family Fireworks achieved an average audience of 980,000 across ABC, ABC NEWS and ABC ME (Combined Metro & Regional).
⢠ABCâs NYE coverage was live streamed 209,000 times on iview last night, which was up +132% on the 2018 NYE result. The ABC channel live stream generated 119,000 plays yesterday, (70,000 in 2018) which was the highest result for the channel on iview ever!Social Audiences
ABCâs New Yearâs Eve 2019 coverage was live streamed directly to ABC TV and iviewâs Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts and shared to 33 ABC and partner accounts. This included 25 of the ABCâs location-based regional and capital city Facebook pages, allowing Australians across the country to celebrate New Yearâs Eve together, regardless of their location, with the message to donate prominently featuring throughout the night.
⢠Total views across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram of concert and fireworks so far: 1.6M.
⢠On Twitter, the Midnight Fireworks stream has 869K viewers so far. #NYEABC trended #1 on Twitter during the broadcast, with over 3900 tweets using that hashtag in the last 24 hours and potential reach of 6.5M.
⢠On Facebook, the live streams and highlights packages amassed a combined total of 275K+ views across ABC and partner pages overnight. ABC New Yearâs Eve GIFs to celebrate the night reached over 2.3 million views.
⢠On YouTube, ABC TVâs live stream and highlights packages had 460K views at the time of reporting.
⢠To celebrate the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, five Indigenous language packages from around the country were shared on the relevant local pages. These received more than 22.6K views.Families were entertained early in the night with Susie Youssef and Nazeem Hussain hosting the New Yearâs Eve House Party.
From 9.30pm, Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe hosted the Party of the Decades concert and encouraged viewers to dig deep and donate to the Red Cross. While the star -studded line up of stars performed the memorable songs from recent decades, our thoughts and best wishes were with our neighbours, friends and fellow Aussies who have suffered through the recent bushfires, floods and drought.
As the clock ticked over to midnight, ABC crews positioned around the harbour, beamed Sydneyâs iconic midnight fireworks around Australia and the world as singer-songwriter Marlon Williams led a moving capella rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
This capped off a very special night, highlighting ABCâs commitment to not only entertaining Australian audiences but also supporting the wider community.
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Great ratings for the ABC last night with live steam worldwide
I didnât watch the ABC NYE telecast (as I was at someoneâs house) but I feel that the coverage has been a standout.
- People have donated money to the Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund, which raised more than $2 million. Red Cross has done a fantastic job supporting victims of the NSW bushfires that have happened in late 2019.
- TV Ratingsâit was a slight increase from last yearâs NYE (5-city metro). They did exceptionally well in the demos last night.
- There were 119k streams on the iView, which was the highest live VPM in its history (This surpassed the previous record, 96 000 streams which was the State of Origin Game 3 from ANZ Stadium on Nine)
- People from not just Australia, but around the world can stream the ABC NYE coverage on Facebook, Twitter and on YouTube. Many people are heading into streaming. The NYE Streams on YT have incrased significantly from NYE2018 to 2019 with more than double the amount of streams.
- Many people took to social media to hashtag #NYEABC on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
- Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe hosted the NYE fireworks for 3 straight years. Kudos to them.
Sure there were a couple of dud songs, but I thought it was fantastic overall.
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Iâm very surprised by the lack of traction from the usual media suspects about the ABCâs fireworks coverage, given the Todd Carney/âBill Shittenâ pre-recorded Charlie Pickering segment that went to air just before the fireworks. I bet there were some sweaty palms in the control room when that went to air.
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The segment with Pickering aired due to the 9PM family fireworks were delayed because of winds. Inappropiate and no mention of it on any site.
If youâre so outraged, lodge a complaint.
Seen a few comments on facebook this morning.
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Iâm not outraged and certainly wouldnât lodge a complaint, but I totally would have expected the Daily Mail at the very least to conjure up some outrage piece.
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News Corp are too busy with the âmiddle fingerâ ââcontroversyââ, so I suspect theyâve gotten away with it
Also, that childrenâs house party segment that went to air just before the fireworks - I was actually very impressed by the production values. The presenters (Susie Youssef and Nazeem Hussain) did a great job - I thought they were proper childrenâs TV presenters until I realised who they were.
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Yes because that fits the right wing crazy narrative for their readers than someone pissing into their own mouth. It was blacked out anyway.
News Corp will rub anything that their right wing Neanderthal readers will froth at the mouth about and call for the ABC to be shut down.
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Because management are perpetually frightened of having something to defend at Senate estimates hearings?
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According to The Australian, former ABC chairman Maurice Newman has demanded the broadcaster apologise over Tex Perkinsâ obscene gesture towards Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Tuesday nightâs concert.
The perpetually offended strike again!
Modern conservatives in the country really are dragging the country down and a national newspaper sees it as worthy of reporting.
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Ongoing Problem with those on the hard left and hard right. Perpetually offended, then label the other side snowflakes.