From TV History thread:
I remember CBC rated terribly in Sydney but I don’t think it was as much a car crash as 3AK which was already coming off a very low base. At least 2UE was able to build up from the failure of CBC to become a talkback giant with Alan Jones and so on, 3AK couldn’t get anything to work – talkback or otherwise – until it became SEN in 2004.
What was 2UE’s format before CBC?
And I had an old B&T article somewhere from around the time the first ratings for CBC came out. I’ll see if I can find it.