Weeks won - Ratings Year
Weeks won - Full Year
Week 28 in 2018
Big drops in Perth; two reasons SOO for Nine meant an early start on Wednesday and Friday AFL took viewers away from Seven’s bulletin. Both Sydney bulletins down about 13,000 while Seven Melbourne lost 20,000 for the 6pm segment.
Expecting an announcement from Simon Hobbs this time next week trumpeting a ninth straight ratings win for Nine News Sydney. Still, the average margin remains incredibly close (just less than 10K).
Yes, at this stage, it is possible to say that Seven News nationally, plus bulletins in Adelaide and Perth and Nine News Sydney cannot be beaten in the 2019 survey based on weeks won.
Although it’s not likely to happen, technically Seven News Sydney can still beat Nine at 6.30pm (not by much) with 19 weeks to 1 during that half hour! 
What will be the biggest highlights and lowlights for each news service come year’s end (or even before)?
My two cents: Seven News Melbourne’s newfound success (new highlight), apart from the main highlight of dominating news. But Seven News Sydney continues to struggle, at least in terms of winning weeks (lowlight).
As for Nine: Nine News Melbourne and Sydney (even though they’re headed south, especially the former), as for a lowlight has to be Nine News in Adelaide and especially Perth (God awful!)
While Seven News may not have won a week in Sydney this year, from what I can see they are starting to close the gap a lot. Even so, they’ve had multiple nightly wins in one week but it’s just not enough.
The eight weeks Seven News have won in Melbourne so far this ratings year matches the same figure they were able to win during the dark days of the Simon Pristel era (start of 2012 - end of 2018).
I prefer basing the claim for a year’s victory on the average number of people watching rather than weeks won; that is the criterion used for most other ratings comparisons.
This is the average audience so far to week 28.
Weeks won - Ratings Year
Weeks won - Full Year
Week 29 in 2018
Every bulletin, every market, every timeslot - Seven wins the lot - and convincingly in each case.
That sees Seven nationally and in Adelaide and Perth reach the significant 21 weekly wins. Nine Sydney pipped at the post will have to wait.
Plus another week where 10 News Queensland betters ABC News.
The gap is closing between Seven News and Nine News in Melbourne for the survey period, especially in the 6.30pm half.
First time since at least 2012 (maybe 2011, when they only took out their 21st week in October) that Nine News Sydney has not won the first 21 ratings weeks of the year, if I’m not mistaken.
Of course when looking at the Sydney ratings, it’s incredibly important to keep in mind that both Mark Ferguson & Peter Overton were absent this week so we’re really looking at a week where the ratings battle was (mostly) between Michael Usher & Deborah Knight.
It’ll be rather interesting to see what happens next week. If Seven’s viewers drop back when Fergo returns, we’ll know at least one of the things they need to do to become #1 in the Sydney market! And if Deborah Knight starts to regularly lose against Michael Usher on Friday/Saturday, that will probably encourage Nine to (* gulp *) make Mark Burrows their 2nd in-line Sydney newsreader! 
Wow
I would love to know how it’s going so wrong for Nine News Melbourne recently…
The nine brand isn’t strong in Melbourne at the moment. GTV9 need to seriously look at their local content.
I still think it’s Today related. Flow on effect.
Yes, agree.
But that’s 1 of several factors.
Do you really think Nine News Sydney needs to make Mark Burrows their 2nd in-line presenter?
If there’s a problem with Today that’s spreading to Nine News Sydney, it’s far more to do with their content (reports of some of this week’s content on Today make me glad that I never watch it) than Georgie Gardner or Deborah Knight who prior to Wilkinson’s defection, were probably adored by Sydneysiders at a level which potentially rivalled the affection that viewers had for Peter Overton or any of the other channel’s main newsreaders in this market.
This time last year, everyone from Annette Sharp to The Daily Mail and members on this forum had the opinion that Karl Stefanovic essentially needs a break from the entire Australian media landscape after the Wilkinson defection & Uber-gate scandals. Now just about everyone has made a complete U-turn and gone “Oh come back Karl, we miss you!” in the last six months. Talk about appalling hypocrisy because if/when Karl does return to Today you can bet that within a month, people will be back to their “Come on Nine, Karl’s a has been and needs to go” opinions.
Please direct me to where I said that I think Deborah should be replaced with Mark Burrows on Nine News Sydney?
Looks like another win to 7 in Brisbane this week 
What happened to 9 in Brissie last night? Those numbers are tragic!
Actually, it will be an interesting week to see what happened in Syd and Mel?
Looks like Nine won their 9th consecutive year in Sydney.