Nine’s pre-match show (scheduled 7.00-7.30pm aedt) and Night Session 1 will be huge - ratings wise.
And no doubt the later segments too, when the next match starts too.
Djokovic v Sinner will start at 9pm AEDT on 9 and 9Now. Has a bit of rhyme in it.
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Match length of Alcaraz-Zverev SF1: 5 hours and 27 minutes.
Becomes the 3rd longest match in Australian Open history; surpasses the 2022 Final (5hr 24min).
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I thought they select the timeframe in which those appeared?
Which means tomorrow what we’ll see is “day”, “night pre-match”, “night” and “late”.
But well, 4m reach and 1.5m average. Probably my underestimation, actually.
Yeah and the placement of the match will have covered several Nine codings with OzTAM (including some shows listed which will have been pre empted), so it should give an idea as to the peak, though suspect they’ll be fairly similar (except for 9Gem in some markets at various stages but that should still be large for a m/c).
So ‘S2’ and if they do a ‘Late’ should represent the other match coming up, Djokovic v Sinner.
Anyways, what a game. That might have got me back into tennis for a good while until Sunday night.
The TV Guide had pre-game from 7.00-7.30pm aedt in the schedule (with A Current Affair out of the schedule). The other nights where they have “pre-game Night” in the ratings is the confusing one. Since it’s not in the actual guides.
Session 1 and Session 2 will still be in the ratings. “Late” is usually for the 11pm slot. Not sure if tonight will have one or not - since Chicago Med is scheduled for 11pm (in Syd and Melb).
The thing about these codings is that I sense that they are made up as they go along. OzTAM never says a program covers which minute to which minute so that is even less transparency in that aspect.
If Nine even has a clue, they will simply just format as “MDF / SF1 / SF1 multi / pre-match / SF2”. But I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.
Simply delayed until after the now-late-night session. If it hits 1am or something, they’ll probably go straight to advertorials.
But now I’m worried the ratings for this one might be depressed because there’s a non-zero audience which goes…
Ratings for the next day are “preliminary” and does not take into account long matches. Ratings will show oddities for Nine and the Tennis. It will show “Chicago Med”, Pre-Match Night, and whatever 9Gem were showing when the tennis was shown earlier.
Who knows what Nine will actually show when tonight’s match actually finishes.
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SF2 Djokovic v Sinner scheduled to start at 9:05pm AEDT.
It will be a late start and a late finish for Channel 9 tonight.
First ball will now be at 9.30pm, just in time for Perth to resume coverage on the main channel.
Forget the midnight endtime. We’re well past that now.
Nice to see Hamish McLachlan’s ‘boil the kettle’ phrase is still being used on the coverage, his successor Bracey just then and heard Psaltis or Speed use it the other day 
I mean, you’d think unlikely, but if it goes 5 sets, it’ll be well after midnight yes and that’d be a relatively quick 3 hour one. If replicating today, it’d be more like 1:30 or 2:30am!
If you are still here after the conclusion of SF1, you’re in for SF2.
Not long to go now. Ten minutes away. Perth has to finish its bulletin first.
Update: Well, we’ve started right at the time of this posting.
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Could be a 1am finish now 
How many sets are we getting in the men’s semifinals?
What a day Nine is having. Whatever the competition has, it doesn’t matter.
12.45am finish incoming.
They’re still going to run the movie, just delayed. As long as the tennis doesn’t go until the HS time.
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EPG in Melbourne now says “Law & Order: Organized Crime”
That’s the original schedule. Ignore it. 9Now has never been able to be flexible with their watch live prompt.
The program on their carousel is correctly the semifinal though.
We have entered the midnight hours AEDT.
We’re really going to the 5th set… again?!
Remember, today’s coverage started with Peers and Gedecki coming back from a set down to successfully defend their title.
Then Alcaraz-Zverev battling past 6pm in Brisbane, halving the news there to maximise main-channel action. A super-marathon by every metric possible.
Now Djokovic-Sinner started late and will go the distance.
There are a maximum of 13 sets (well, 12 sets + 1 super TB) to be played today. And all of them will be played.
You couldn’t ask for better than that. Nine could be getting the highest ratings this tournament when the numbers come out on February 7. (I don’t think tomorrow’s is an accurate reflection)
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