I’d say Seven’s news dominance in Melbourne over the past two months was due to AFL finals. Now that the footy’s over, Nine News can finish the year on a high.
Week 46 Preliminary
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Week 46 in 2018
Closer than usual in Sydney with Seven winning Monday and Tuesday as Nine gets a narrow win in Melbourne as well across the hour.
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Week 47 Preliminary
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Week 47 in 2018
In Brisbane, Seven News recorded its lowest audience of this survey, but just managed to stay ahead of an under-performing Nine News.
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Week 48 Preliminary
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Week 48 in 2018
This is the final result for the official ratings period. It was a bad result for Seven on Friday where, in association with the day/night test match, the bulletin recorded its lowest audience of the year (by a long way).
The following table shows the preliminary overnight average audience for the ratings period. NOTE: that this does not include 7-day overnights that the networks will use as their official number - this will add 1,000 - 3,000 to each number usually. This could be very important in the Melbourne market. When the networks send through their official numbers, I’ll update the table.
2019 Average Audience
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Week 49 Preliminary
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Week 49 in 2018
The first week of the summer “non-ratings” period.
The table is predominated by red with Seven and Nine’s bulletins both recording their lowest audiences of the year; down 10-12% from the same week last year. Several individual bulletins also recorded year or near-year lows.
The smoking gun is of course 10 News’s extension into the 6pm timeslot; but with just one week of numbers it is early days yet.
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Week 50 Preliminary
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Week 50 in 2018
Most numbers recovered from last week’s lows with Seven News rating higher last week than Week 50 in 2018 which is rare. Brisbane notable for the battle of the solo newsreaders with Melissa Downs narrowly beating Max Futcher across the hour.
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Seven has completely lost Melbourne… cricket doesn’t seem to help.
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Week 51 Preliminary
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Week 51 in 2018
Despite the big coverage of bush fires, the table is predominantly red this week. While there were some comparatively high rated bulletins, Seven was let down on Friday with cricket as a lead-in to the news where it was their second lowest rated bulletin of the year, while on Tuesday, Nine recorded its lowest rated bulletin of the year so far. 10, by contrast recorded its highest rating week since September with Friday’s bulletin one of the top ten performers for the year.
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It’s official that Nine News will finish as year end No.1 in Melbourne but not after a mighty challenge from Seven.
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Week 52 Preliminary
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Week 52 in 2018
Final week of ratings year with Seven winning all 52 weeks in the 5 cities plus 2 markets. Seven’s Brisbane victory was fairly comprehensive as well, while Melbourne turned into a close race. Nine continued to dominate Sydney.
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I would like to think that since The Sunday Telegraph ran the story about Mark Ferguson staying on as anchor of Seven News Sydney, that bulletin’s ratings have suffered, even in non-ratings.
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Consolation win for Seven thanks to the Boxing Day cricket test lead-in, especially in Melbourne.
Week 1 2020 Preliminary
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Week 1 in 2019
And their off and racing for another year!
As expected, news ratings improved from the previous week that included low rating Christmas day. Seven scored a rare win at 6pm in Sydney but lost across the hour.
Elsewhere, it was a good week for 10 News recording its highest weekly audience since June 2019.
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Love to see 10 News First at 6 figures in comparison this year. Are we able to accommodate this?
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OzTAM rules don’t allow posting of those numbers here.
OzTam is controlled by the major networks, no? So could possibly be a directive from 10 or by the other two. Interesting that it’s not allowed, I always thought it was just selective that 7 & 9 were shown here.
OzTam is controlled by the major networks, yes!
Unfortunately IIRC TV.Cynic can only publish figures that make the top 20. Sadly I don’t think that will be happening at a national level any time soon.
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Yes the rule is that nothing outside what is posted in the daily ratings posts can be shown.
So that means only programs in the top 20 or making the top 20 consolidated from the previous weeks. It is also a consideration as to why 10 News isn’t included here because on some days it doesn’t make the top 20.
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Oh oops, of course that’s the reason why. Disregard