Friday 17 March 2023

TV Ratings Television Ratings
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Five City Metro, 6pm-12am, Total People

Network
Overnight
ABC
15.3%
ABC K/P
2.2%
ABC Me
0.5%
ABC News
1.4%

ABC TTL

19.4%
Seven
27.4%
7Two
3.2%
7Mate
4.8%
7Flix
1.3%
7Bravo
0.9%

Seven TTL

37.6%
Nine
18.3%
9GO!
2.7%
9GEM
1.9%
9Life
1.4%
9Rush
1.3%

Nine TTL

25.6%
10
5.2%
10 Bold
2.4%
10 Peach
2.1%
10 Shake
0.6%

Ten TTL

10.3%
SBS
3.4%
Viceland
1.5%
SBSFood
0.8%
NITV
0.2%
World Movies
1.3%
WorldWatch
0.0%

SBS TTL

7.1%

Top 20 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN NEWS Seven
717,000
173,000
227,000
127,000
107,000
83,000
2 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
672,000
164,000
215,000
118,000
97,000
77,000
3 NINE NEWS Nine
559,000
160,000
190,000
103,000
55,000
51,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
557,000
158,000
203,000
111,000
46,000
39,000
5 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven
551,000
26,000
338,000
48,000
80,000
60,000
6 ABC NEWS-EV ABC TV
428,000
127,000
142,000
53,000
41,000
66,000
7 ENDEAVOUR-EV ABC TV
387,000
110,000
128,000
61,000
42,000
45,000
8 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
381,000
15,000
221,000
34,000
63,000
46,000
9 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven
370,000
100,000
116,000
62,000
57,000
34,000
10 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine
345,000
129,000
148,000
32,000
37,000
11 GARDENING AUSTRALIA-EV ABC TV
328,000
98,000
97,000
47,000
36,000
50,000
12 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
299,000
176,000
5,000
103,000
9,000
6,000
13 HOT SEAT Nine
269,000
90,000
84,000
60,000
19,000
17,000
14 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Seven
241,000
107,000
31,000
60,000
12,000
32,000
15 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM Seven
239,000
64,000
72,000
43,000
35,000
25,000
16 NINE'S AFTERNOON NEWS Nine
214,000
50,000
58,000
42,000
36,000
27,000
17 TIPPING POINT -RPT Nine
213,000
51,000
59,000
51,000
19,000
34,000
18 10 NEWS FIRST 10
210,000
71,000
66,000
34,000
15,000
24,000
19 SUNRISE Seven
204,000
59,000
45,000
35,000
31,000
34,000
20 FRIDAY NIGHT COUNTDOWN Seven
202,000
9,000
165,000
9,000
3,000
15,000

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Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven
231,000
19,000
146,000
14,000
28,000
25,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven
167,000
38,000
57,000
25,000
28,000
18,000
3 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
161,000
8,000
93,000
11,000
28,000
21,000
4 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
156,000
36,000
53,000
22,000
26,000
18,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
146,000
44,000
46,000
25,000
15,000
16,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven
204,000
16,000
125,000
14,000
21,000
26,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven
139,000
30,000
48,000
23,000
22,000
16,000
3 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
138,000
7,000
76,000
11,000
21,000
23,000
4 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
131,000
31,000
43,000
21,000
18,000
17,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
112,000
36,000
34,000
20,000
10,000
12,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven
112,000
10,000
73,000
9,000
7,000
12,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
80,000
4,000
49,000
8,000
7,000
12,000
3 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
66,000
35,000
2,000
24,000
1,000
4,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Seven
59,000
11,000
25,000
13,000
7,000
4,000
5 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
57,000
14,000
19,000
13,000
6,000
4,000

Top 20 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate
133,000
26,000
48,000
60,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH 7mate
96,000
15,000
34,000
46,000
3 BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM-EV ABC K/P
90,000
44,000
16,000
19,000
9,000
2,000
4 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
90,000
33,000
26,000
13,000
8,000
10,000
5 TISH TASH-AM ABC K/P
88,000
32,000
25,000
13,000
8,000
11,000
6 THOMAS AND FRIENDS: ALL ENGINES GO!-AM ABC K/P
85,000
31,000
25,000
12,000
8,000
9,000
7 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
80,000
28,000
29,000
8,000
8,000
6,000
8 SHAUN THE SHEEP-EV ABC K/P
79,000
38,000
19,000
12,000
8,000
1,000
9 PETER RABBIT-EV ABC K/P
79,000
41,000
12,000
12,000
10,000
3,000
10 THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON-EV ABC K/P
77,000
35,000
15,000
17,000
9,000
2,000
11 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
74,000
35,000
13,000
15,000
7,000
4,000
12 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH -EV 9GO!
74,000
18,000
22,000
16,000
10,000
7,000
13 FIREMAN SAM-AM ABC K/P
71,000
29,000
20,000
7,000
10,000
5,000
14 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
70,000
28,000
25,000
4,000
6,000
6,000
15 KANGAROO BEACH-PM ABC K/P
69,000
27,000
17,000
16,000
6,000
3,000
16 LOVE MONSTER-PM ABC K/P
67,000
22,000
17,000
18,000
8,000
3,000
17 INTERSTELLAR ELLA-PM ABC K/P
67,000
26,000
18,000
12,000
8,000
3,000
18 GRACE'S AMAZING MACHINES-EV ABC K/P
66,000
31,000
14,000
14,000
5,000
2,000
19 OCTONAUTS-PM ABC K/P
66,000
22,000
18,000
12,000
14,000
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20 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY-EP.2 PM 7TWO
65,000
13,000
21,000
10,000
9,000
12,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate
58,000
19,000
14,000
25,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH 7mate
41,000
8,000
11,000
21,000
3 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH -EV 9GO!
29,000
7,000
6,000
8,000
6,000
2,000
4 FRIENDS EP 4 RPT 10 Peach
29,000
5,000
5,000
12,000
1,000
5,000
5 BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM-EV ABC K/P
28,000
15,000
3,000
7,000
3,000
0

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate
57,000
16,000
14,000
26,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH 7mate
41,000
7,000
11,000
23,000
3 BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM-EV ABC K/P
27,000
14,000
3,000
7,000
3,000
0
4 FRIENDS EP 4 RPT 10 Peach
26,000
4,000
5,000
12,000
1,000
4,000
5 THE BIG BANG THEORY RPT 10 Peach
25,000
6,000
5,000
10,000
1,000
3,000

Top 5 Programs - Free-to-Air Multichannels - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7mate
32,000
10,000
9,000
12,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH 7mate
24,000
4,000
8,000
12,000
3 FIREMAN SAM-AM ABC K/P
20,000
11,000
5,000
0
4,000
0
4 THOMAS AND FRIENDS: ALL ENGINES GO!-AM ABC K/P
18,000
10,000
6,000
0
2,000
0
5 TISH TASH-AM ABC K/P
17,000
10,000
6,000
0
2,000
0

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
376,000
2 LIVE: NRL: ROOSTERS V RABBITOHS FOX LEAGUE
328,000
3 LIVE: NRL: KNIGHTS V DOLPHINS FOX LEAGUE
261,000
4 LIVE: AFL: GEELONG V COLLINGWOOD FOX FOOTY
259,000
5 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
206,000
6 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
152,000
7 LIVE: ODI: IND V AUS GAME 1 FOX CRICKET
63,000
8 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
62,000
9 GET'EM ON SIDE FOX LEAGUE
62,000
10 IN THE BACK POCKET FOX FOOTY
55,000
11 ALLAN BORDER: GREATEST GAMES FOX CRICKET
50,000
12 LIVE: ODI: IND V AUS GAME 1 FOX CRICKET
48,000
13 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
42,000
14 NRL MINI: RND3 NEW V DOL FOX LEAGUE
35,000
15 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
27,000
16 THE RITA PANAHI SHOW Sky News Live
27,000
17 CREDLIN Sky News Live
25,000
18 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY Lifestyle Channel
25,000
19 NRL MINI: RND3 SYD V SOU FOX LEAGUE
21,000
20 VERA FOX Sleuth
20,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 25-54

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
139,000
2 LIVE: NRL: ROOSTERS V RABBITOHS FOX LEAGUE
118,000
3 LIVE: AFL: GEELONG V COLLINGWOOD FOX FOOTY
110,000
4 LIVE: NRL: KNIGHTS V DOLPHINS FOX LEAGUE
95,000
5 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
88,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 18-49

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
119,000
2 LIVE: NRL: ROOSTERS V RABBITOHS FOX LEAGUE
100,000
3 LIVE: AFL: GEELONG V COLLINGWOOD FOX FOOTY
97,000
4 LIVE: NRL: KNIGHTS V DOLPHINS FOX LEAGUE
80,000
5 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
79,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - 16-39

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 3 FOX LEAGUE
65,000
2 LIVE: AFL: GEELONG V COLLINGWOOD FOX FOOTY
62,000
3 LIVE: NRL: ROOSTERS V RABBITOHS FOX LEAGUE
52,000
4 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
47,000
5 LIVE: NRL: KNIGHTS V DOLPHINS FOX LEAGUE
46,000

Data © OzTAM Pty Limited 2023. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM. “Overnight” figures include “Live” (programs broadcast during the 2am-2am broadcast day) and “As Live” (programs recorded and then watched within the same broadcast day). “Consolidated” figures include Live, As Live and “Time Shift” (programs recorded and then watched within seven days of the initial broadcast).

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The first Friday night of the AFL season saw Seven post its highest share of 2023, up three from Thursday to be 12 points clear of second-placed Nine. That saw large changes from recent Friday viewing with Nine down 4, ABC down 3 and 10 down 2 to its equal lowest share of the year and SBS down 2.

The AFL FTA audience was 551,000 which compares to 505,000 for the first Friday game of 2022 and 587,000 in 2021. Earlier Seven News did well including its fourth win of the week in Sydney. That was despite The Chase recording a survey low audience at 5.30pm.

Nine’s night saw the NRL drop just below 300k. That was after Nine News had its lowest result for this year’s survey.

While ABC’s share was down it still managed the top entertainment shows including Endeavour that was down 10k and Gardening Australia that was unchanged. Meanwhile, 10’s prime time line up again missed the top 20 with the afternoon’s 10 News unchanged week-on-week.

The AFL came in at 259,000 on Foxtel, which is up from 190,000 for the equivalent game last year.

Also on Fox, some impressive audiences for NRL with 376,000 the headline number. Rare to see the (national) numbers on Fox higher than Nine’s FTA 5-city number.

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Big win to Seven thanks to the AFL. The first episode of Friday Night Countdown, which aired on main channel in Melbourne, beat ACA in the city. From next week though it’s back to 7mate.

BH&G hit a new low with the entire episode on 7two in Melbourne and Adelaide due to the footy.

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If 7 was more competitive on Tuesday & Wednesday, they could of won the week with a Saturday win

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Perhaps that might prompt Seven to ditch the 8.30 Front Bar in Sydney and Brisbane for something more competitive.

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Friday is the new Saturday for 10, they need to firm up a better strategy and line-up for Friday nights moving forward.

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They should do a weekly reality entertainment show that young families who are home could watch. Just once a week, only for the Friday audience.

Like Big Brother Friday Night Games was.

Maybe Dancing on Ice, The X Factor or something.

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Definitely needs to be an alternative to the other lifestyle offerings / live sport.

After many years of creating consistency and having a loyal audience with TLR in that slot, they’ve basically given it away with a failure to adequately plan or find an alternative to air.

Given Friday is often The Projects lowest rating might, possibly make that Sun - Thur nights with alternative programming Friday night couldn’t hurt IMO.

A sports entertainment panel show for something different could be an idea, along the lines of The Thursday Night Sports Show they had on ONE circa 2014. If they get a decent panel together with the likes of Beau Ryan, Tara Rushton, a different sports reporter or presenter from the network and a guest each week and maybe even Tim McDonald for the comedic element. Relatively inexpensive to do I’m sure.

Also a game show of some variety would be something different to mix up the schedule, attract a different audience and offer an alternative in a different timeslot.

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A sports panel show wouldn’t work in my opinion. Why watch a panel show when you could watch the actual game?

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Point of difference would be that it’s general sport and entertainment, so the demographic and audience would be broader than say your traditional die hard fan tuning in to watch their team play each week.

Why do anything different then? Get the tone, panel and timeslot right and they could be on to something, offering an alternative, building out their sports slate and taking some risks.

I’m not saying put such show right up against AFL/NRL or the like, that would not be smart scheduling but I’d be more inclined to watch something general like that where it’s casual each watching with a few laughs.

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Replacing The Project with a sports panel show seems like a good idea in theory, but it just would not work in practice as I don’t believe it could find an audience. You have three big issues in the way of the success of the show:

  1. The NRL starts at 6pm on a Friday.
  2. The popularity of the competing 6pm news services.
  3. People preferring to be out on a Friday night rather than being at home.

Die-hard fans aren’t watching since they will be watching/attending the games, and casual fans are probably at a pub with their mates, having dinner, or watching the news before the kick-off of the game on FTA.

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Wow! This is getting super close between Hot Seat and Tipping Point

Less than 60k between each other

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Don’t forget that Hot Seat in at 5pm on the East Coast, 4pm in Adelaide and 3pm in Perth where we see Tipping Point at 4pm.

Once the numbers dip on the East Coast further more, then Nine will be worried.

As for 10’s ratings last night - against the AFL and NRL, and ABC’s popular Gardening Australia - ouch! They certainly need new content, instead of “the Best of The Graham Norton Show” and endless repeats of other shows. To help them boost their shares up a little. It’s not gonna beat the AFL and Nine, but at least get to a more respected share.

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Wait really? I didn’t realise Tipping Point was at 4PM in Perth??
Nine should jump on doing a local version of the show.

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Lets call out the elephant in the room.

Ten 5.2%

Apparently its all just part of a strategy that I dont understand?

Ten need to move with the 9pm News asap.

I also have the solution to the 6.30pm timeslot because they need to fix this

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Unless they can find something really compelling that will appeal to the people that arent interested in watching the footy, they’re going to post poor Friday numbers for the next 24 or so weeks.

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I’m not completely convinced that a 9PM bulletin would be the success for Ten that you think it might be. Their news brand seems to be damaged from all of the cutbacks and it would take many, many years to turn that back around. Still, I would love to be convinced otherwise.

After seeing some of your other “solutions” in the past, I’m loathed to ask what this next one could be.

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You also need to take into account the demo group that 10 is targeting. For example, last Friday ABC’s Endeavour had 394,000 and ranked 7th overall as the top entertainment show of the night. However in 25-54, 10’s top performer the Taskmaster encore at 8.30pm that was outside the top 20 in total people ranked 11th with 3 times the audience of Endeavour that ranked 30th.

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So… The Front Bar?

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Explain how this would be profitable.
Give us an outline of the production costs, content and required audience to generate ad revenue to outweigh the costs.

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