The cumulative audience reach yesterday was up on the previous Sunday but overall average audience numbers were down on the previous week. Nine had an easy 5-point national win with its best Sunday share of the survey. Nine was up by one that was at the expense of ABC that dropped to its lowest Sunday of the survey with other networks steady.
The latest commitment ceremony on Married At First Sight took pole position again with a 875k margin over its closest competitor Australian Idol. Married slipped by 40k to be the fourth highest rated episode of the season while Idol was down significantly losing 110k week-on-week. Survivor took a small hit losing 20k while ABC’s Death in Paradise continued the trend and was down 80k.
60 Minutes again faced limited competition in the post reality time slot with 781k even with the previous week. Seven’s offering on The Hunt for MH370 managed 440k to just miss the top 10. House of Gods lost more audience to settle with 210k.
That’s a massive number these days for a m/c, probably over 150k metro broadcast, 7Two share would’ve been huge and when metro shares are posted probably saved Seven’s night to be somewhat close to Nine depsite the might of Married. Looks like acquiring re-run rights to Vera through their long-running ITV relationship has paid off.
Married at First Sight recorded a massive National Total TV Reach of 2.932 million - 1.124 million more viewers than its nearest competitor.
Married at First Sight secured a Total TV National Audience of 1.714 million - up 13.6% year-on-year and 875,000 viewers ahead of its nearest competitor.
Married at First Sight was a convincing timeslot winner across the country, ranking the No.1 program with People 25-54, 16-39 and Total People across Australia and in all metro capitals.
Married at First Sight secured a huge BVOD audience of 385,000 - up 27% on the corresponding episode last year and 305,000 viewers ahead of its nearest BVOD competitor.
Sunday Afternoon NRL Live was broadcast to a National Total TV Reach of 1.027 million and a Total TV National Audience of 452,000 - up 9.9% on the same day last year. It dominated its timeslot in Sydney and Brisbane.
60 Minutes recorded a Total TV National Audience of 781,000 and was an easy timeslot winner in all metro capitals.
60 Minutes secured a BVOD audience of 90,000 - up 40.9% year-on-year.
9News recorded a Total TV National Audience of 1.154 million - up 2.7% year-on-year. It was the No.1 news bulletin with Total People in Sydney & Melbourne and was 59,000 viewers ahead of its nearest competitor in both markets.
Postcards (broadcast on 9Melbourne in the 5.30pm timeslot) secured a Total TV Audience of 144,000 - greater than the audience of the 7.30pm programs on Nine’s commercial competitors.
The 9Network was No. 1 on broadcast TV across the 5 City Metro with all key demos and Total People.
9Now was also the comprehensive No. 1 CFTA BVOD service with all key demos and Total People.
Close result at 6pm with Nine well ahead in the two largest markets but let down in Brisbane. Despite an easy win, that’s a low number for Weekend Sunrise.
What does that really mean? I struggle to understand the new ratings system but surely this is incorrect! Idol rated in the 800,000’s and Survivor almost 600,000, both much higher than 144,000.
Seven’s lead-ins got smashed on the east coast, particularly concerning in Melbourne given NRL wasn’t a factor/ no AFL. Maybe they need to bring back a show like Coxy’s Big Break or Melbourne Weekender or a networked The Great Outdoors re-boot, what’s Ernie Dingo up to these days? I mentioned last week how old and repeated those Border eps are and many will be sick to death of them and just changing to GTV straight away.
Isn’t the 144k the total tv figure which is metro + regional + BVOD while ‘Melbourne’ is only the metro figures?
So you can’t say more people watched postcards (total tv) compared to idol in melbourne (metro) when they are 2 different figures/categories.
Or is it saying that less than 144k watched Idol in total tv Melbourne (VIC?) if that’s the case then how does idol get to 839k average with VIC being really low
If I understand it correctly, Idol got 839k in total tv and the figure in Melbourne was 124k? It must have done somewhat well in the other markets to get to 839k given Melb is probably the 2nd largest market
Nine’s release was only talking about metro Melbourne total TV (so Melb broadcast + Melb bvod), not regional Vic. And that same metric in regards to Survivor and Idol too. The 839k Idol figure would’ve included regional Vic broadcast and bvod and yes the show probably did better comparatively in other metrics and markets around Australia as well (as that Melbourne figure is terrible - Survivor probably even beat it in all people and no doubt key demos).
@BJT2’s been banging on about it almost daily, but makes a good point, outside AFL, HSV as a station do seem in trouble in 2024. They’ll be hoping to get news back on track to 2022 and 2023 levels, but Alicia and Tom so far doing very well.