Close call for Mike Amor and Rebecca Maddern.
Nine won at 6.30pm in Melbourne partly due to Jane Bunn’s absence on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Even though 9 won the week and this was 7’s lowest result, 9 was lower again on Friday night.
Congratulations to the Seven News Melbourne team.
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Well done Seven Melbourne. Quite the turn around this year.
Think it’s fair to say that Melbourne has two quality bulletins right now.
All Seven needs to do is readjust their desk 
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Week 35 2022 - Preliminary
Ratings weeks won - 2022
Weeks won - 2022
Week 35 2021
Changes from last week were not large - Seven down by 6,000 and Nine by just 2,000 in the 5-city market.
The biggest change was in Melbourne where Nine won the week with Seven down 17,000. That sees Seven still on 20 weeks won across the hour still one short of absolute victory for the year. Also a winner was Seven News Brisbane that was up 11k while Nine was down 11k. Seven won three nights with Nine posting another shocker on Friday night.
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Week 35 average audience report
Considering some of the recent discussion, I’ve prepared a tables showing average audiences during the survey period up until last night. Also included is average audience data for Sunday and Saturday viewing.
This is just overnight data- add a few thousand to get 7-day.
Survey Year
This is the data for the full calendar year where you can see how close it is in Melbourne (5,000) and particularly Brisbane (1,000) across the hour. If you take an average across all seven days, Seven Brisbane could make a claim to be the number one news service in Brisbane.
Calendar Year
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Seven News Sydney is in all sorts of ratings trouble, trailing Nine News every evening of the week.
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And that’s even without Overton helming 9.
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Apparently, according to the below article, the reason for the recent dip in Seven News Sydney’s ratings could be due to an OzTam glitch, where viewers in parts of Sydney were counted towards the Wollongong ratings rather than towards Sydney’s, thanks to a quite significant signal overspill of the Wollongong TV channels into much of the metropolitan area.
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Will be interesting to see if this affects any overall results including any weekly wins.
Mark Ferguson breathes a sigh of relief this morning, lol.
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Admittedly, I live in the Fairfield LGA, which is more than one hour’s drive from Wollongong, and surprisingly got good reception for Prime7 Wollongong than the main Seven, and WIN over the main Nine.
It was only just before the Commonwealth Games that I got my reception fixed to get the main metro channels.
If you take that report at face value and say that potential viewers for Sydney were out by 20,000, by how much would that impact Seven News ratings. First, of the 20,000, how many were watching TV at 6pm. Let’s be generous and say 50% though it is more likely a lot less. Then of those 10,000, how many were watching Seven News. Again if very generous and say 40% - that would be 4,000 less viewers for Seven. But it would also impact Nine News by the same amount, if not more.
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May or may not have a more significant impact outside of primetime when numbers are lower, but network shares may be skewed one way or the other.
Sounds like a lot of work to recalculate and republish them all.
Rather surprising revelation, though pitty to see that it was apparently brought about by a network being unhappy.
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Also pretty sure that “spill” (as mentioned in the article) is a significant differing point between the 7 Day Total and Voz reports, in that one includes and one excludes it, also one is de-duplicated and one isn’t and one includes an estimate for markets not peoplemetered while the other doesn’t. I do wonder if these differences are why they’re not being released and talked about more. @TV.Cynic
Not a lot of change in the 5-city market where Seven was up 7,000 and Nine down 6,000 from week 35.
AFL impacted the ratings in Perth where both bulletins suffered on Thursday and Friday nights.
Congratulations for Seven Melbourne that hit the 21-weeks won for the full hour to be the number one news service based on that measure. 
Seven also took back a week in Brisbane to win by less than one thousand across the hour, again seeing the drop off for the second half hour almost cost it the week.
Seven in Sydney managed to top 200,000 – must be all those missing OzTAM viewers! though Nine was also up week-on-week.
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So close in Brisbane largely due to a big loss in the second half hour on Friday night.
RIP Nine Melbourne’s run (2011-2021)
I would assume there would be crisis talks at Nine Melbourne now. Having such a big lead over your competitor and it suddenly turning around would get them worried.
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