Friday 24 March 2023

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

Network
ABC
12.1%
13.4%
14.6%
ABC K/P
2.1%
2.3%
3.0%
ABC Me
0.4%
0.4%
0.5%
ABC News
1.4%
1.3%
1.3%
ABC TTL

15.9%

17.5%
19.4%
Seven
27.3%
26.4%
25.5%
7Two
3.4%
3.4%
3.4%
7Mate
3.0%
3.0%
2.9%
7Flix
1.5%
1.5%
1.5%
7Bravo
1.2%
1.3%
1.3%
Seven TTL

36.4%

35.5%
34.6%
Nine
20.4%
19.7%
19.1%
9GO!
2.0%
1.9%
1.9%
9GEM
2.3%
2.2%
2.2%
9Life
1.3%
1.3%
1.3%
9Rush
1.6%
1.6%
1.6%
Nine TTL

27.6%

26.8%
26.0%
10
5.4%
5.5%
5.6%
10 Bold
2.3%
2.3%
2.2%
10 Peach
2.2%
2.2%
2.1%
10 Shake
1.3%
1.2%
1.2%
Ten TTL

11.2%

11.2%
11.1%
SBS
3.8%
3.9%
3.8%
Viceland
1.9%
2.0%
2.0%
Food
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
NITV
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
World Movies
1.8%
1.8%
1.8%
WorldWatch
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
SBS TTL

8.9%

9.0%
8.8%

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

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
694,000
138,000
253,000
139,000
83,000
80,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven
655,000
138,000
217,000
126,000
93,000
80,000
3 NINE NEWS Nine
565,000
161,000
180,000
130,000
62,000
32,000
4 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven
448,000
9,000
260,000
59,000
75,000
44,000
5 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
441,000
165,000
184,000
59,000
33,000
6 ABC NEWS-EV ABC TV
435,000
112,000
162,000
50,000
46,000
64,000
7 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
428,000
154,000
11,000
246,000
10,000
6,000
8 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
404,000
4,000
208,000
80,000
60,000
52,000
9 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine
365,000
129,000
146,000
14,000
45,000
30,000
10 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven
354,000
86,000
97,000
76,000
57,000
38,000
11 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Seven
353,000
110,000
159,000
17,000
17,000
51,000
12 GARDENING AUSTRALIA-EV ABC TV
335,000
107,000
105,000
40,000
43,000
40,000
13 HOT SEAT Nine
286,000
93,000
91,000
62,000
26,000
13,000
14 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - PRE MATCH Seven
281,000
7,000
186,000
11,000
62,000
15,000
15 VAN DER VALK-EV ABC TV
269,000
69,000
86,000
29,000
37,000
48,000
16 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE -PRE MATCH Nine
237,000
86,000
7,000
135,000
4,000
5,000
17 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM Seven
234,000
61,000
62,000
43,000
35,000
33,000
18 TIPPING POINT -RPT Nine
229,000
64,000
66,000
49,000
23,000
27,000
19 ARMCHAIR EXPERTS 2023 Seven
218,000
3,000
122,000
48,000
42,000
4,000
20 SUNRISE Seven
212,000
56,000
43,000
50,000
28,000
36,000

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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
201,000
5,000
127,000
24,000
28,000
17,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
183,000
2,000
101,000
36,000
25,000
20,000
3 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
165,000
56,000
8,000
95,000
2,000
5,000
4 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
150,000
29,000
66,000
26,000
14,000
15,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven
131,000
30,000
50,000
21,000
16,000
15,000

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
180,000
4,000
112,000
22,000
25,000
17,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
167,000
2,000
94,000
32,000
19,000
20,000
3 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
142,000
48,000
7,000
81,000
1,000
5,000
4 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
119,000
23,000
56,000
22,000
9,000
9,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven
106,000
23,000
43,000
19,000
12,000
9,000

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
102,000
1,000
69,000
15,000
9,000
9,000
2 SEVEN'S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL - POST MATCH Seven
90,000
0
58,000
18,000
7,000
8,000
3 FRIDAY NIGHT NRL LIVE Nine
84,000
29,000
4,000
47,000
0
4,000
4 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
65,000
11,000
30,000
16,000
3,000
5,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven
54,000
11,000
19,000
17,000
3,000
4,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
118,000
33,000
53,000
7,000
12,000
13,000
2 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
116,000
39,000
39,000
13,000
10,000
16,000
3 MECHA BUILDERS-AM ABC K/P
108,000
41,000
47,000
3,000
10,000
7,000
4 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
105,000
36,000
47,000
4,000
9,000
8,000
5 TISH TASH-AM ABC K/P
96,000
34,000
30,000
4,000
8,000
20,000
6 THOMAS AND FRIENDS: ALL ENGINES GO!-AM ABC K/P
87,000
30,000
27,000
5,000
5,000
20,000
7 THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON-EV ABC K/P
82,000
21,000
22,000
11,000
5,000
23,000
8 LOVE MONSTER-PM ABC K/P
81,000
27,000
21,000
5,000
5,000
22,000
9 DO, RE & MI-AM ABC K/P
75,000
29,000
28,000
3,000
11,000
4,000
10 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY-PM 7TWO
74,000
18,000
23,000
9,000
17,000
6,000
11 FIREMAN SAM-AM ABC K/P
74,000
24,000
20,000
7,000
4,000
18,000
12 INTERSTELLAR ELLA-PM ABC K/P
71,000
23,000
20,000
2,000
5,000
21,000
13 KANGAROO BEACH-PM ABC K/P
68,000
22,000
15,000
2,000
5,000
23,000
14 DINOSAUR TRAIN-AM ABC K/P
66,000
22,000
18,000
8,000
4,000
15,000
15 NUMBERBLOCKS-AM ABC K/P
65,000
22,000
24,000
5,000
11,000
4,000
16 PETER RABBIT-EV ABC K/P
65,000
27,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
20,000
17 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
63,000
23,000
14,000
9,000
4,000
13,000
18 PLAY SCHOOL SHOW TIME-AM ABC K/P
63,000
21,000
23,000
4,000
10,000
4,000
19 BEN AND HOLLY'S LITTLE KINGDOM-EV ABC K/P
59,000
25,000
10,000
0
6,000
19,000
20 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
59,000
20,000
18,000
12,000
1,000
8,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
33,000
11,000
14,000
3,000
3,000
2,000
2 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
33,000
9,000
11,000
7,000
0
6,000
3 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
32,000
10,000
16,000
1,000
3,000
2,000
4 MECHA BUILDERS-AM ABC K/P
31,000
10,000
16,000
0
3,000
2,000
5 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
30,000
10,000
15,000
0
2,000
2,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
32,000
9,000
14,000
3,000
3,000
2,000
2 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
31,000
8,000
16,000
1,000
3,000
2,000
3 MECHA BUILDERS-AM ABC K/P
30,000
8,000
16,000
0
3,000
2,000
4 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
28,000
8,000
15,000
0
2,000
2,000
5 THE BIG BANG THEORY EP 3 RPT 10 Peach
26,000
6,000
10,000
5,000
0
5,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
22,000
6,000
12,000
3,000
1,000
0
2 MISTER MAKER AROUND THE WORLD-PM ABC K/P
21,000
6,000
10,000
2,000
0
3,000
3 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
21,000
4,000
14,000
1,000
1,000
0
4 REMY & BOO-PM ABC K/P
20,000
5,000
10,000
2,000
0
3,000
5 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
18,000
4,000
13,000
0
1,000
0

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL: DOLPHINS V BRONCOS FOX LEAGUE
382,000
2 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
288,000
3 LIVE: NRL: STORM V WESTS TIGERS FOX LEAGUE
257,000
4 LIVE: AFL: BRISBANE V MELBOURNE FOX FOOTY
237,000
5 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
206,000
6 LIVE: FOX FOOTY LIVE FOX FOOTY
154,000
7 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
114,000
8 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
83,000
9 IN THE BACK POCKET FOX FOOTY
60,000
10 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
45,000
11 GET'EM ON SIDE FOX LEAGUE
40,000
12 CREDLIN Sky News Live
35,000
13 ERIN Sky News Live
28,000
14 THE RITA PANAHI SHOW Sky News Live
27,000
15 SELLING HOUSES AUSTRALIA Lifestyle Channel
25,000
16 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Lifestyle Channel
23,000
17 NEW TRICKS UKTV
23,000
18 NRL MINI: RND4 MEL V WST FOX LEAGUE
22,000
19 MIDSOMER MURDERS UKTV
22,000
20 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY Lifestyle Channel
22,000

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

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL: DOLPHINS V BRONCOS FOX LEAGUE
169,000
2 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
130,000
3 LIVE: NRL: STORM V WESTS TIGERS FOX LEAGUE
106,000
4 LIVE: AFL: BRISBANE V MELBOURNE FOX FOOTY
97,000
5 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
86,000

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

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NRL: DOLPHINS V BRONCOS FOX LEAGUE
135,000
2 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
105,000
3 LIVE: AFL: BRISBANE V MELBOURNE FOX FOOTY
87,000
4 LIVE: NRL: STORM V WESTS TIGERS FOX LEAGUE
84,000
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: DOLPHINS V BRONCOS FOX LEAGUE
74,000
2 LIVE: AFL: BRISBANE V MELBOURNE FOX FOOTY
60,000
3 LIVE: FRIDAY FOOTY ON FOX FOX FOOTY
57,000
4 LIVE: NRL FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY: ROUND 4 FOX LEAGUE
56,000
5 LIVE: NRL: STORM V WESTS TIGERS FOX LEAGUE
50,000

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On another big Friday night of sport Nine got a big boost from the much anticipated NRL Battle of Brisbane with its share up two points. The Friday Night NRL had a five city audience of 428,000, an unprecedented result for a regular club game in recent years including a 256,000 in Brisbane to be the number one show in that market for the week. The equivalent game in 2022 had 306,000.

Seven still won the night with a huge 36.4 share, though down one from the previous Friday. ABC lost 3.5 share, while 10 and SBS were both up one.

The AFL result, that was impacted by a late finish due to a power failure at the game with 20 minutes to go, will see adjustments to the game and post-game entries in final numbers. Earlier in the night, Seven News posted its lowest 6pm week-day audience of the year.

Better Homes and Gardens did better this week, airing in Melbourne for 30 minutes on the main channel. That saw it ahead of Gardening Australia on ABC where Endeavour was down 100k on the previous results for its timeslot on Fridays.

10 had a split schedule across the markets with a Socceroos game on the main channel in Sydney and Melbourne only and regular programming in other markets. Despite the higher share, none of the programs made the top 20.

The NRL also delivered a big audience on STV with 382,000 for the headline game.

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That’s a big NRL figure in Brisbane, dwarfed Sydney and was very close to Melbourne’s AFL (one only wonders how they keep getting those sorts of figures even though only one local team, a lesser followed one and were thrashed), one of the closest Friday AFL and NRL margins I can remember.

Which makes Seven’s massive share margin questionable, including main channel very nearly outranking Nine’s whole network. A good turn-out all things considered for Lions in Brisbane, looks like it increased significantly later in the night too and easily outrated AFL market Perth.

And with the hype and some online turning things into a battle of sports and teams, you wonder if Brisbane’s audience should’ve/could’ve been even higher, as we see Adelaide and Perth AFL do over 200k often a couple of times each year, with half of Brisbane’s population, yet Sydney and Melbourne with double Brisbane’s population beaten by them or very close to - ratings can be fickle and strange.

And looks like BH&G getting back on track, beating Gardening (including Syd and Melb) - first in a while, with Melbourne now high again (thanks to that 30min between news and AFL), add Brisbane back on main channel next week and should see even higher.

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The Dolphins-Broncos derby thrashed the AFL in Brisbane.

The soccer friendly rated poorly on 10.

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The NRL result is higher the the audience for Semi Final 1 in 2022.

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Goes without saying but 10 really need to sort out a better strategy for Fridays (and Saturdays) for this year and moving forward.

All that momentum with TLR now all but lost with the show off the radar, and no programs in the top 20 for the main channel last night.

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Channel Ten 5.4%?

Important to note that the 7pm Project did not make the Top 20 on either Thursday or Friday night,

The excuses in here for the poor performances are that young people go out on a Friday night, and that the NRL is on a Thursday night.

Enough of the banal excuses. Ten needs to drop the “youth network”’ strategy becasue it is failing.

An option is to rebrand as a news station with many half hour bulletins across the day ie. Midday, 2pm, 9pm etc.

Stop wasting millilons on Lisa Wilkinson. Employ more journalists and create a credible news service with economies of scale.

Rant over

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Yes because the news rated so highly on Friday also. Let’s put more of that on?

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Yeah
It seems the solution to Ten’s woes is to axe one news program and replace it with lots of others which repeat the same news every couple of hours. :crazy_face:

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Not repeat the news - the news cycle is 24/7.

But yes, rolling news coverage. A 30 minute bulletin every 2 hours.

I know you are in love with the “youth” strategy and you thought hiring Lisa Wilkinson was a great idea, but you have egg on your face because the station is delivering single figure shares on nights other than the weekend.

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You do realise that Ten News At Five is one of the few programs they have that is consistently in the Top 20?

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5pm rates okay, 6pm bombs.

Survivor rates 500k. Maybe just have that as rolling coverage.

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Survior has been the success story of the year.

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Yet again, the Football fails to attract viewers - how long is it going to take Ten to realise that…

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As has been pointed out to you a couple of times, Ten is not a news brand right now and it isn’t something which will change overnight. And just because viewership is decent for the 5pm news doesn’t mean viewership will be good at 2pm or 9pm or whenever else you have news on. Ten need to invest in what they have now rather than your suggestion of throwing spaghetti at the wall. Fully reinstate locally produced bulletins, at least for weekdays, either remove the 6pm hour and replace it (something like Neighbours), or maybe keep the 6pm hour with a recap of the day’s stories and a longer form investgative piece.

This I agree with. The hiring of Wilkinson to me looks like the signing of a early 30s football star to a reasonably long contract. It initially started off well and they saw some success with it, but as the talent started to wear off and the performances began to dip, the money becomes an issue. The sooner they can get off it, the better.

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The AFL (and the preliminary post match/Armchair Experts segments) did very well. As did the NRL in Brisbane.

10;s split schedule due to the Soccer did average for 10. At least their Tuesday night Soccer match is on 10Bold nationwide, instead of the split schedule. But kudos to 10 for trying something new and having live sport against the AFL and NRL, even if it is just in Sydney and Melbourne. There’s not many sporting events coming up of a Friday or Saturday nights anyway that warrant a main-channel offering.

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Football rates very well. Unfortunately Ten only have the rights to soccer.

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They need to have some form of sport… the main ones like AFL, NRL, cricket, tennis are all locked up.

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Ten has to do something different.

The reason I suggest the rolling news strategy is because on most nights, the News is the number one program across all states.

Ten need to cash in on this.

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If you’re going to push it, at least be factual.
The project was ahead of it sun-wed. Some of those days the news also didn’t make the top 20.
On those days that it did, it was not ahead or number 1 in all states.
It was also 3rd in its timeslot…(it used to be first)