Missed 1st Game of 2nd Set due to advertising poor Channel 7.
Roger Federer has already won tonight’s semi-final after not even two sets with Chung retiring, barely an hour after it began. This could damage Seven’s ratings a bit tonight.
I think that’s an understatement. They’ll have to severely re-adjust the coding.
They’d probably like to ignore tonight, Seven execs wouldn’t be happy at all, both semis (for the first time ever perhaps) complete disasters, albeit won last night easily.
They’ll be over the moon that Federer’s at least into Sunday’s final & here’s hoping tomorrow and Sunday are great matches.
I can’t believe it, my head was down and looked back up and they were shaking hands 
Luckily for Seven tonight, Nine’s telecast will wrap up soon, given the one-sided affair today & it was a dead rubber anyway. Otherwise Nine might’ve scored their first win since two Sundays ago (it’ll be close tonight now).
Dylan Alcott’s final is on next, hopefully Seven will broadcast it?
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Looks like it, from what I’m seeing on my screen now. Seven seem to be at a bit of a loss as to what to show now; they’re running a highlights package at the moment. But when was the last time a men’s singles match at the Australian Open was this short? This isn’t good for Seven at all, I think there would be utter chaos in the control rooms now!!
I would think in the east after the tennis coverage ends, Seven will go straight into the Friday night movie, “The Boy Next Door”.
They are going to show the wheelchair men’s semi-final match on Seven in Sydney at least. Which doesnt happen often
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Well, there are Aussies playing.
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@Mitchell_Nock The movie can’t start in certain markets (earliest 9:30pm AEDT Adelaide & 10pm AEDT Brisbane) due to it carrying an MA15+ classification.
They do have an edited version, but that is only lined-up for Perth.
I don’t think BCM’s broadcast system / scripts would be able to change over to the M classified version at such short notice, positive it doesn’t work like that.
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I didn’t realise Perth was getting an edited version of the movie. I assumed it didn’t need to be edited, like with most movies.
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Alcott match just finished.
“HD” has moved to bottom right (always incidates that was the final ad break, next program about to start).
“The Boy Next Door” (2015) will start before 10:30pm AEDT.
Edit
Telecast finished at 10:21pm AEDT.
This must be a record for the Australian Open. Coverage ended at 10:21 PM AEDT on Day 12 of the championship.
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Don’t know if anyone got any video/caps, but end credits had multiple shots of Seven Sport’s talent doing various moves / humour et al. (like during the Melbourne Cup, when the presenters in suits have fun laughing amongst each other). Sorry if that was worded badly.
Hazard a guess it’ll air again at the end of tomorrow and Sunday’s tekecasts.
Saw this. I only saw the ending of the coverage tonight because it finished early but I thought this sort of thing showed on the end credits all the time 
It was because of Chung’s retirement in his semi final against Federer. That match only went for one hour. The wheelchair singles semi final also went for a hour or so.
Did you not see what I posted earlier??? I’m sorry but you don’t need to spell it out for me!!
Can you believe Seven still won last night (both network and primary channel), despite the extremely early finish to Federer’s match.
They must be over the moon, they’ve won every night since Day 1, up on last year (both broadcast ratings, broadcast rankings and Live VPM minutes). With big competition from ODI cricket and BBL cricket on multiple nights.
Nine’s ODI did beat the tennis last night (as could be expected), for the first time since a couple of years ago I believe.
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That’s unbelievable but I suppose there wasn’t much competition last night in primetime anyway. Even the cricket finished early yesterday too.
Given you suggested it would happen, yes I can.
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I’ll spell something about for you: C A L M D O W N
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I am trying to be nice here but I don’t need people like you acting like I’m a dumb person on here; that’s why I get frustrated. If @JohnsonTV bothered to scroll up he would have seen this so he didn’t have to speak to me as though I was completely clueless:
It is also the fact that he replied to me directly that I get this frustrated. So don’t tell me to calm down, just don’t do this in future and actually look to see if it has been mentioned elsewhere. Thank you.
Thought I had accidentally stumbled into a ratings thread for Saturday or perhaps an outshoot of the Seven PR department.
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