# Historic Television Ratings **URL:** \ **Category:** TV History\ **Tags:** ratings\ **Created:** [June 24, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786 "2019-06-24T11:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Super\_SC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Super\_SC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Super_SC)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/41 "2019-12-21T05:27:17Z")
It was rare to see Channel 9 finish to 3rd place in an official ratings week, with 10 nabbing 2nd. In that year (2009), Channel 10 had a very strong lineup thanks to MasterChef Australia, SYTYCDA, The Biggest Loser Australia, AFL, Drama shows. IIRC, Channel 10 had won 2 weeks in 2009 ratings year. At the end of the official ratings year (2009), Seven won all 5 cities. Nine finished 2nd (except Perth, where it fell to Channel 10). ---
**Author:** ![TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@TV-Expert](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TV-Expert)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/42 "2019-12-21T05:29:01Z")
> [@TV Ratings history](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/tv-ratings-history/11895/2): > > In that year (2009), Channel 10 had a very strong lineup thanks to MasterChef Australia, SYTYCDA, The Biggest Loser Australia, AFL, Drama shows. There was also Talkin’ About Your Generation (TAYG), which rated big for 10 on its 7:30pm Tuesday night timeslot. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/43 "2019-12-21T07:00:38Z")
> [@TV Ratings history](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/tv-ratings-history/11895/2): > > It was rare to see Channel 9 finish to 3rd place in an official ratings week It also happened in 2014, when Ten had the Commonwealth Games. Nine still won that week in Sydney, though, with Ten second. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_SC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Super\_SC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Super_SC)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/44 "2019-12-21T07:14:55Z")
During that week in 2014 Games, who won the week in terms of (5-city metro)? ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/45 "2019-12-21T07:23:54Z")
Ten. It was first in Melbourne and Brisbane; Seven won Adelaide and Perth and Nine took out Sydney. Ten was higher than Nine elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/46 "2019-12-21T07:31:21Z")
> [@Avatar5991](#): > > Not sure if this is the right place for it, but I have stumbled across a TV Tonight article from 2009 where Seven won all markets sans Adelaide (where it was second - to Ten). > > Ten won Adelaide, and was second in Sydney and Perth. This pushed Nine to a rare third place in Sydney ( **though it would win that market the following week** ), and overall. If my memory/knowledge of Australian TV in 2009 is correct, it would’ve been the week Matthew Johns resigned from Nine (although did have an interview with Tracy Grimshaw on ACA shortly afterwards) due to the fallout from that major scandal and Four Corners story? ---
**Author:** ![Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/avatar5991/32/310969_2.png) [@Avatar5991](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Avatar5991)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/47 "2019-12-21T07:33:14Z")
Correct. Seven won all the other markets that week. Peter Overton even had a win against Ian Ross on one of the nights. ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/48 "2020-04-20T13:20:54Z")
Some 1986 ratings numbers for Survey 4, 1986, Brisbane and Perth ![ratings_1986_0001](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/a/7a3bdda5358a6937349158251039ea20c303fedb.jpeg) In Brisbane, Seven wins in prime time but Nine wins overall (just!). Nine’s afternoon looks unbeatable, no doubt with _Midday, Days Of Our Lives_ and _The Young And The Restless_. Seven relying largely on midday movies and re-runs through to the kids shows after school. In Perth, Seven wins across the board but Nine is a close 2nd in prime time and only 3 points behind overall. Seven wins afternoons with US soaps _Another World_, _Days Of Our Lives_ and _The Young And The Restless_, while Nine has _Midday_ and a 1.30pm movie. Source: B&T, 29 August 1986 ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/49 "2020-05-24T07:32:22Z")
Some early ratings results for _Blankety Blanks_ which had debuted only a few months earlier. It was not common for magazines like TV Times to publish ratings numbers so this was pretty rare. Newspapers seemed to have a tiny bit more licence to do so via weekly summaries in the Green Guide, etc., but magazines never went into much detail with ratings. ![blanketyblanks_0002](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/e/b/eb7a07e677eeb82d155631bcc904dceb07469631.jpeg) Source: TV Times, 21 May 1977 ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/50 "2020-05-30T03:43:03Z")
Any reason they didn’t fly him to and from Sydney? ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/51 "2020-05-30T04:12:04Z")
> [@TVHead](#): > > Any reason they didn’t fly him to and from Sydney Maybe he liked the train? ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/52 "2020-05-30T04:44:16Z")
Hmm maybe he didn’t like flying. Just an odd observation. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/53 "2020-05-30T07:31:27Z")
A private cabin overnight on the Southern Aurora would be a lot more flash than flying an hour or so to Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/54 "2020-08-20T11:33:11Z")
At the risk of spamming the forum, I recently stumbled on an old Mediaweek magazine and did a wrap up of the ratings for that week > **[What we watched: August 2003](https://televisionau.com/2020/08/what-we-watched-august-2003.html)** > > Another random snapshot of what we were watching on TV. This time it’s the week ending 2 August 2003. The new reality series The Block was the latest breakout hit, there was tragedy in Neighbours, and we were introduced to the first batch of... ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/55 "2020-08-20T11:46:30Z")
Those ratings really show how much the TV landscape has fragmented over the past 17 years or so. Individual Sydney & Melbourne market figures of over 700k for the Sunday night episode of The Block. These days, many shows would be happy to receive 700k across all five metro markets! ---
**Author:** ![TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/televisionau/32/125_2.png) [@TelevisionAU](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TelevisionAU)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/56 "2020-08-20T11:52:05Z")
> [@SydneyCityTV](#): > > Sunday night episode of The Block 2.4m just for a regular episode. Such a world away from where we are at now. For some context of course, back then there were no FTA multi-channels (except for SBS World News Channel) and streaming just wasn’t a thing. ---
**Author:** ![BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bigvic/32/209954_2.png) [@BigVic](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/BigVic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/57 "2020-08-20T11:58:22Z")
AFHV was a popular show back then in the old _Hey Hey_ time slot at 6.30pm for Saturday night entertainment. 2003 was not a good year for Seven ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/58 "2020-08-20T12:08:05Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > For some context of course, back then there were no FTA multi-channels (except for SBS World News Channel) and streaming just wasn’t a thing. Indeed, that’s important to keep in mind. Most Australian households still would’ve been watching via analogue TV in 2003, probably on those silver coloured 4.3 CRTs (hard to imagine watching one now, I know) I seem to recall being popular around then. Flat screens weren’t really prominent for another year or two and even then, it was far more common than not to see analogue 4.3 stretched to 16.9 on those for several years after - probably until early last decade. ---
**Author:** ![Sifon](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sifon/32/65_2.png) [@Sifon](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Sifon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/59 "2020-08-20T12:11:38Z")
> [@TelevisionAU](#): > > For some context of course, back then there were no FTA multi-channels (except for SBS World News Channel) and streaming just wasn’t a thing. Less people though. Over 1m more in Sydney now compared to 2003. 1.5m more in Melbourne FTA only have themselves to blame. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/34f0e0/32.png) [@yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/yellow_sock)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786/60 "2020-08-20T12:34:44Z")
2003 - when people sat down and actually watched tv. lol. Australian Drama rated well (Blue Heelers and All Saints). Movies rated too - 3 movies rated over 975,000 (True Lies, Shaft and The General’s Daughter). Variety TV was a must watch - with over a million people watching - Rove and The Panel. [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/historic-television-ratings/9786.md?page=4)