Seven News won Melbourne at 6:30pm (with Jennifer Keyte).
Hard to compare the 6.30 segment last week as Nine only had a one hour news on 3 nights in Melbourne.
Final numbers for week 50 posted - no change to wins per market.
###Week 51 - Preliminary
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Weeks won - Year
Due to cricket coverage, Nine numbers subject to more than usual change.
###Week 52
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###Week 53
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Welcome to another year of news comparisons
###Week 1 Preliminary
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Weeks won - Year
Big start in Melbourne, probably due to the love of cricket.
Nine will be pleased (albeit means nothing really)
I didn’t realise a “love” of cricket is exclusively a Melbourne thing.
So what explains 9 winning in Sydney?
I was commenting on how it’s unusual for weekly averages in the high 300k over summer.
Unless I am mistaken?
I presume Sydney is for the same reason (cricket lead-in)?
Final numbers for week 1 say a number of changes with Seven News winning overall rather than Nine.
###Week 1 FINAL
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###Week 2 Preliminary
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Seven News down 70,000 from last week and Nine News down 80,000.
###Week 3 Final
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###Week 4 Preliminary
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###Week 5 Preliminary
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Increase of 50,000 over last week for Seven News and corresponding decrease for Nine nationally. Close results in Sydney and especially Brisbane where it may end up a tie after rounding.
###Week 5 Final
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Weeks won - Year
As predicted, Brisbane turned out to be a tie in final numbers for week 5.
###Week 6 preliminary
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Looks like Nines new set in Melbourne is working?
Seven will be hoping the large gap in Melbourne at 6pm this week was just a glitch & will fix itsself come ratings start from tomorrow night.
NB/
Seven News Melbourne had the largest growth of any bulletin last year & many here wondered whether it would be a serious contender to match or overtake Nine News Melbourne’s ratings in 2017…
But 5 months with a new set in Perth isn’t