Monday 30 January 2023

TV Ratings Archive Ratings Archive - 2023
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Five City Metro, 6pm-12am, Total People

Network
ABC
1.9%
14.3%
14.1%
ABC K/P
0.5%
1.9%
1.9%
ABC Me
1.8%
0.4%
0.5%
ABC News
18.9%
1.7%
1.7%
ABC TTL

16.9%

18.4%
18.2%
Seven
3.4%
16.5%
16.3%
7Two
1.6%
3.3%
3.3%
7Mate
1.1%
1.5%
1.5%
7Flix
0.9%
1.1%
1.1%
7Bravo
23.9%
0.9%
0.9%
Seven TTL

25.6%

23.3%
23.1%
Nine
1.8%
26.3%
26.5%
9GO!
2.1%
1.8%
1.8%
9GEM
1.5%
2.2%
2.2%
9Life
1.4%
1.4%
1.4%
9Rush
32.4%
1.3%
1.3%
Nine TTL

11.7%

33.1%
33.2%
10
2.9%
12.5%
12.9%
10 Bold
2.2%
2.8%
2.7%
10 Peach
0.7%
2.1%
2.0%
10 Shake
17.5%
0.7%
0.7%
Ten TTL

3.1%

18.0%
18.3%
SBS
2.2%
3.2%
3.2%
Viceland
1.1%
2.2%
2.2%
Food
0.1%
1.0%
1.1%
NITV
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
World Movies
0.1%
0.7%
0.6%
WorldWatch
7.3%
0.0%
0.0%
SBS TTL

0.0%

7.3%
7.3%

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

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEVEN NEWS Seven
900,000
223,000
260,000
159,000
126,000
132,000
2 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
892,000
208,000
270,000
164,000
116,000
134,000
3 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -LAUNCH Nine
840,000
253,000
285,000
135,000
82,000
86,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
794,000
229,000
266,000
152,000
83,000
64,000
5 NINE NEWS Nine
760,000
229,000
245,000
148,000
81,000
57,000
6 ABC NEWS-EV ABC TV
641,000
192,000
194,000
100,000
73,000
81,000
7 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine
639,000
189,000
194,000
132,000
66,000
59,000
8 7.30-EV ABC TV
564,000
212,000
166,000
78,000
58,000
49,000
9 FOUR CORNERS-EV ABC TV
546,000
198,000
149,000
86,000
53,000
60,000
10 BACK ROADS S9-EV ABC TV
527,000
180,000
165,000
70,000
58,000
54,000
11 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven
515,000
131,000
159,000
83,000
70,000
72,000
12 MEDIA WATCH-EV ABC TV
508,000
181,000
152,000
70,000
55,000
51,000
13 HOME AND AWAY Seven
505,000
130,000
175,000
83,000
46,000
71,000
14 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR - LAUNCH 10
447,000
130,000
149,000
74,000
54,000
40,000
15 AUSTRALIAN IDOL - LAUNCH Seven
413,000
128,000
111,000
71,000
51,000
52,000
16 HARRY AND MEGHAN: THE GREAT DIVIDE Nine
343,000
90,000
133,000
49,000
39,000
32,000
17 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA-5PM Seven
328,000
84,000
101,000
53,000
39,000
51,000
18 HOT SEAT Nine
324,000
101,000
119,000
72,000
19,000
13,000
19 THE PROJECT 7PM 10
322,000
70,000
112,000
69,000
36,000
35,000
20 10 NEWS FIRST 10
256,000
68,000
75,000
54,000
22,000
37,000

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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 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -LAUNCH Nine
389,000
125,000
125,000
54,000
35,000
51,000
2 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR - LAUNCH 10
236,000
61,000
86,000
47,000
21,000
21,000
3 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
218,000
46,000
57,000
49,000
24,000
42,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
209,000
61,000
62,000
41,000
27,000
18,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven
199,000
51,000
38,000
43,000
26,000
42,000

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

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -LAUNCH Nine
342,000
113,000
106,000
47,000
28,000
47,000
2 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR - LAUNCH 10
206,000
59,000
74,000
38,000
15,000
20,000
3 SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30 Seven
158,000
31,000
45,000
32,000
17,000
32,000
4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
146,000
44,000
45,000
28,000
18,000
11,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Seven
143,000
38,000
29,000
31,000
17,000
29,000

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

Rank Program Network 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -LAUNCH Nine
211,000
78,000
65,000
28,000
13,000
27,000
2 AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR - LAUNCH 10
112,000
40,000
41,000
20,000
6,000
5,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine
85,000
29,000
28,000
16,000
5,000
8,000
4 NINE NEWS Nine
80,000
30,000
21,000
16,000
8,000
7,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine
76,000
31,000
19,000
14,000
3,000
8,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 DEATH IN PARADISE -EV 9Gem
116,000
30,000
34,000
24,000
13,000
16,000
2 NCIS RPT 10 Bold
107,000
22,000
35,000
19,000
16,000
15,000
3 DOC MARTIN-PM 7TWO
105,000
16,000
23,000
30,000
20,000
16,000
4 NCIS EP 2 RPT 10 Bold
104,000
25,000
29,000
20,000
17,000
13,000
5 THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON-EV ABC K/P
102,000
32,000
15,000
23,000
9,000
23,000
6 BULL RPT 10 Bold
101,000
22,000
25,000
32,000
8,000
14,000
7 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
101,000
20,000
24,000
21,000
14,000
21,000
8 BLUEY-EV ABC K/P
96,000
28,000
18,000
25,000
6,000
18,000
9 KANGAROO BEACH-PM ABC K/P
95,000
28,000
13,000
22,000
15,000
17,000
10 PEPPA PIG-AM ABC K/P
95,000
26,000
16,000
24,000
11,000
19,000
11 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
94,000
11,000
34,000
15,000
14,000
20,000
12 KIRI AND LOU-AM ABC K/P
91,000
20,000
14,000
27,000
11,000
19,000
13 KIRI AND LOU-PM ABC K/P
87,000
25,000
14,000
20,000
14,000
15,000
14 HAPPY THE HOGLET-AM ABC K/P
85,000
21,000
13,000
26,000
9,000
16,000
15 MILO-AM ABC K/P
85,000
21,000
13,000
26,000
8,000
17,000
16 REEF SCHOOL-AM ABC K/P
84,000
11,000
37,000
8,000
8,000
20,000
17 DO, RE & MI-PM ABC K/P
84,000
21,000
15,000
21,000
12,000
14,000
18 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN RPT SBS VICELAND
83,000
19,000
26,000
16,000
8,000
14,000
19 INSPECTOR MORSE-PM 7TWO
81,000
26,000
23,000
12,000
11,000
9,000
20 LOVE MONSTER-AM ABC K/P
74,000
8,000
32,000
8,000
7,000
18,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 SEINFELD LATE RPT 10 Peach
43,000
9,000
12,000
9,000
1,000
12,000
2 TASKMASTER SBS VICELAND
43,000
10,000
17,000
11,000
1,000
3,000
3 SEINFELD RPT 10 Peach
42,000
14,000
14,000
7,000
2,000
6,000
4 SEINFELD EP 2 RPT 10 Peach
39,000
10,000
14,000
6,000
1,000
7,000
5 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN RPT SBS VICELAND
35,000
10,000
6,000
8,000
4,000
8,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 TASKMASTER SBS VICELAND
36,000
8,000
15,000
9,000
1,000
3,000
2 SEINFELD LATE RPT 10 Peach
35,000
6,000
9,000
9,000
0
10,000
3 THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON-EV ABC K/P
31,000
11,000
2,000
9,000
4,000
6,000
4 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
30,000
5,000
8,000
2,000
6,000
9,000
5 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN RPT SBS VICELAND
30,000
8,000
6,000
7,000
3,000
6,000

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

Rank Program Channel 5 city Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 BLUEY-AM ABC K/P
25,000
4,000
7,000
0
5,000
9,000
2 LOVE MONSTER-AM ABC K/P
23,000
3,000
9,000
0
4,000
7,000
3 KANGAROO BEACH-AM ABC K/P
23,000
1,000
8,000
0
5,000
9,000
4 FRIENDS EP 4 RPT 10 Peach
22,000
5,000
2,000
9,000
1,000
5,000
5 REEF SCHOOL-AM ABC K/P
21,000
1,000
8,000
0
4,000
9,000

Top 20 Programs - Subscription - Overnight Figures - Total People

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: AUSTRALIAN CRICKET AWARDS FOX CRICKET
62,000
2 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
58,000
3 LIVE: NFL: CHIEFS V BENGALS ESPN
56,000
4 ALLAN BORDER MY STORY FOX CRICKET
55,000
5 CREDLIN Sky News Live
48,000
6 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
47,000
7 HAPPY VALLEY BBC First
44,000
8 THE BOLT REPORT Sky News Live
44,000
9 PAUL MURRAY LIVE Sky News Live
43,000
10 LIVE: NFL: EAGLES V 49ERS ESPN
39,000
11 ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY Lifestyle Channel
33,000
12 CALL THE MIDWIFE BBC First
32,000
13 JEOPARDY! FOX Classics
32,000
14 NCIS FOX Crime
30,000
15 NCIS FOX Crime
29,000
16 BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Lifestyle Channel
28,000
17 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Lifestyle Channel
27,000
18 SURGEONS: AT THE EDGE OF LIFE Lifestyle Channel
26,000
19 FATHER BROWN UKTV
24,000
20 24 HOURS IN EMERGENCY Lifestyle Channel
24,000

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

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NFL: CHIEFS V BENGALS ESPN
35,000
2 LIVE: NFL: EAGLES V 49ERS ESPN
28,000
3 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
27,000
4 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
24,000
5 ALLAN BORDER MY STORY FOX CRICKET
17,000

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

Rank Program Network National
1 LIVE: NFL: CHIEFS V BENGALS ESPN
30,000
2 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
29,000
3 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
29,000
4 LIVE: NFL: EAGLES V 49ERS ESPN
21,000
5 LIVE: AUSTRALIAN CRICKET AWARDS FOX CRICKET
12,000

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

Rank Program Network National
1 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
23,000
2 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
19,000
3 LIVE: NFL: CHIEFS V BENGALS ESPN
16,000
4 LIVE: NFL: EAGLES V 49ERS ESPN
14,000
5 THE LAST OF US FOX SHOWCASE
7,000

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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Monday night saw the season launch of multiple shows across networks including three commercial reality franchises, a new host for A Current Affair plus the return of several ABC favourites.

Overall network shares reflected the results with Nine the big winner almost nine points clear thanks to the season debut of Married At First Sight. With linear and catch up to come, the numbers look great for the debut of the season as it ranked number three for the night with 840,000 metro viewers. That is almost as much as the combined audience for Seven and 10’s reality offerings and compares to 869,000 in 2022. While it is the lowest launch episode since 2018 it will no doubt be boost by a large 9Now live audience.

Earlier in the night Nine News got a bit closer to Seven than recently but only won Sydney. That followed a poor performance by a new episode of Hot Seat in the afternoon, almost 200k behind The Chase. However, by 7pm Nine was ahead of Seven with 639,000 tuning in for Ally Langdon’s first ACA show. That is the show’s best number since November and compares to 665,000 for the equivalent show in 2022. Later, Nine also got some viewers for their one off royal special.

Seven got off to a good start with another winning result for news at 6pm. That followed a new episode of The Chase recording its best result of the year. Home and Away then delivered +500k with its best result since this season’s launch. Then followed the debut of the first season of Australian Idol for Seven with a disappointing 413,000 to land fourth at 7.30pm. The result compares to Seven’s offering last year of short run The Voice Generations that had 529,000 in the equivalent timeslot. In 25-54 Idol was 8th.

For ABC the return of Four Corners, Media Watch and Q&A to Monday nights delivered the best Monday share of the year for the network. That followed ABC News delivering its highest rating of the year so far to be number one at 7pm. Back Roads was up 146k on the previous week along with 7.30 that also performed well. While Q&A missed the top 20, it benefitted from the big lead in and improved on last year’s results on a Thursday.

Over on 10, the new season of Australian Survivor landed third at 7.30 with the show’s lowest launch episode to date. The linear audience of 447,00 compares to 2022’s launch that was the previous lowest on 608,000. The show ranked better in the key demos however where it was second for the night. The good demos helped 10 to rank second in all key demos.

So for the first night, it looks very similar to recent years with Nine probably dominating most nights early in the week, Seven with another missed opportunity to get off to a good start and 10 struggling but hoping for good demo numbers to deliver the advertisers.

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Looks like another bumper season ahead for Married at First Sight, based on last night’s premiere figures which are just less than that of Survivor and Australian Idol combined. Even with BVOD and timeshifting, I doubt Survivor and Idol can make up any lost ground to MAFS.

The Australian Cricket Awards topped the pay TV ratings but flopped on 7mate, which led to the channel only posting a 1.6% share. Ratings for The Allan Border Story at No.4 will have to be adjusted as it included 26 minute overrun from the cricket awards lead-in.

The NFL conference championships on ESPN also made the pay TV top 20.

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Seven will be slightly disappointed this morning that Australian Idol results weren’t a little bit more competitive against MAFS.

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I can’t imagine the demo ratings for Australian Idol make for good reading. 7’s audience has increasingly skewed older.

On a different subject, those are good ratings for The Last of Us and well deserved.

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Obviously 7 can’t just wave the white flag against MAFS and show nothing, but launching Idol on a different night would have given it more of a chance.

Still, surprised the novelty of Australian Idol coming back didn’t help it beat at least Survivor.

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Survivor beating Idol? Wow.

Imagine if 10 had a powerful show at 6.30pm to cross promote. Survivor would do even greater numbers.

Seven wont be happy with figures this week for the Big Bash or Idol.

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Home and Away had more people watching than Australian Idol lol.

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This might just be me but I don’t think Cricket is the best audience to advertise idol, like the audience probably don’t align that much. So all those ads about idol during the cricket probably didn’t get much people to tune in

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And who watches cricket on seven? It’s a male dominated sport, so was Idol really going to cut it?

Tennis marketed to the female market, pure gold to launch a show like MAFS.

Idol, which market is that playing too? The youth? The mums, the singles? Seven need to work out what and which market is watching the cricket and than figure out the rollout of Q1

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For everyone that declared the bachelors a bomb, it was getting about the same as Idol in 25-54

With a fraction of the marketing budget

7 has a lot of useless older viewers that don’t make them any money

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That is rough for Idol, I think 7 mostly did things right with a high quality promotion and big budget production. If Idol doesn’t pick up from here I think it will have consequences for the industries attitude towards big investments going forward.

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They’ll be a lot more than slightly disappointed. Considering the amount of promotion Seven gave it over the last few months, they would have expected Australian Idol to attract far more than 413,000 viewers watching it as it aired.

Of course, one night isn’t a trend and we need to see how things settle over the next few nights. However, if things don’t improve, Seven will find themselves yet again in the same position they’ve been in over the last few years - another disappointing start to the ratings year.

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Idol is a daggy old format and goes against both the sound of modern pop/Top 40 music and the discovery of said music.
I’m not sure what kind of Idol they’re actually looking for.

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Given the months of endless promotion and money spent on getting big names out here, I think they would be more than slightly dissapointed.

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There are two more BBL finals to go this week.

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I think we’re now at a point where we can definitely blame the Summer sport platform Seven has relied on. During Summer Seven barely cracked 400K every night thanks to the BBL being a dud and even the Day-Night test wasn’t too flash either. The cricket has single-handedly ruined Seven’s start to each year, because they try to launch anything and it fails against MAFS which has the tennis fuelling its launch with decent ratings.

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No body thought it would overtake MAFS… but I’m sure Seven was hoping for an overnight figure of around 600/700k. Unfortunately, I can see the show dipping under the 400k mark tonight until the live shows commence.

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I don’t think you can totally blame cricket as a poor promotional base for Idol. Seven have had some many other high rating programs leading up to this week not to mention having the number one program practically every night in news. Also the number one afternoon programming as well as breakfast show and moring television. All potentially good for promotion. There are really no excuses.

These are Seven’s reality launches last year

2022
Voice Gen 529,000
DWTS 588,000
SAS 467,000
The Voice 843,000
Big Brother 487,000
MKR 502,000
Farmer 576,000
AGT 633,000
Kitchen Nightmares 459,000

And 2021
Holey Moley 983,000
Ultimate Tag 447,000
DWTS 744,000
Big Brother 664,000
Farmer 820,000
Voice 1,329,000
SAS Aust 647,000
SAS Hell Week 397,000
BB VIP 377,000
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From Nine:

  • The 9Network and Channel 9 were Australia’s dominant No.1 network and primary channel with all key demos and Total People in every market
  • Married at First Sight launch was Australia’s overwhelming No.1 program with People 25-54, 16-39 and and GS+Child and the No.1 Entertainment program with Total People
  • Married at First Sight was an completely dominant timeslot winner with all key demos and Total People across the 5 City and in all major capitals
  • Married at First Sight recorded a Live BVOD Audience of 111,000 (+18% YoY), the highest ever Live BVOD Audience for a launch episode of MAFS and achieved a Live + VOD BVOD Audience of 177,000 (+13% YoY)
  • A Current Affair was up in audience (+2% YOY) vs same episode last year.
  • A Current Affair was a timeslot winner with all key demos and Total People across the 5 City
  • A Current Affair recorded a Live BVOD Audience of 50,000 (+35% YoY)
  • Harry and Meghan: The Great Divide was a timeslot winner with all key demos across the 5 City and in all capital cities
  • 9News was the No.1 news bulletin with Total People in Sydney
  • A Current Affair recorded a Live BVOD Audience of 50,000 (+35% YoY)
  • TODAY was the breakfast show of choice with Total People across the East Coast and in Melbourne and Brisbane

From 10:

Network 10 (10 + 10 Bold + 10 Peach + 10 Shake):

  • #2 network in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
  • 10: #2 channel in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
  • 10 Peach: #1 multi-channel in its key demo of 16 to 39s.

Australian Survivor Launch:

  • #2 show in under 50s, 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s.
  • Biggest live stream audience ever.
  • Livestream audience up 8% compared with 2022 launch.

The Project 7pm:

  • Biggest audience since 9th January.
  • Biggest under 50s and 25 to 54s audience of the year.
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