The Main Ensuite Reveal on Nine’s The Block topped 1.4 million for the second consecutive Sunday for the show’s highest rating so far this season. That helped Nine win the night including with some impressive shares in key demos. The closest competition was on Seven where the fourth Blind Auditions of The Voice also edged upwards to a season high with 987k.
Meanwhile for 10, Survivor Australia v The World premiered to 637k a significant uplift on the previous season that earlier this year averaged 527k for its first episode. The show also did well in key demos where it outperformed The Voice.
Austin on ABC saw 458k tune in, a 30k improvement on last week though The Family Next Door that followed dropped by 100k week-on-week. Later, the Miss Austen series final had 168k. On SBS from 7,30 , Colosseum Rise And Fall had 160k.
7NEWS Spotlight did well with 769k for a rare win over 60 Minutes that dropped 90k to 753k while Watson’s fifth episode was just under 200k
Later, 9News Late had 376k while 24 Hours In Police Custody Season 4 premiered on Seven to 283k.
Nine News Sunday was 60k ahead of Seven’s 6pm bulletin with 10 News+ up slightly on the previous Sunday.
At breakfast Weekend Sunrise scored its lowest rating of the year with 351k though still 85k ahead of Weekend Today, with Weekend Breakfast just 7k further behind.
The afternoon’s NRL game was an easy win by the Cowboys over a disappointing Knights averaging 405k to be just ahead of afternoon AFL, where Geelong smashed Sydney rating 380k.
The premiere of Survivor: Australia v The World did quite well. I do wonder if it would have attracted many more viewers, due to some Survivor fans boycotting the show following 10’s decision to dump Jonathan Lapaglia as program host.
Massive audience for The Block reveals episode. With more than two months to go until auction day, it will cause more ratings pain for rival networks.
The Block was the No. 1 entertainment program with Total People and all key demos across Australia. It was also the No. 1 entertainment program with Total People in all five metro capitals and the No. 1 program with People 25-54 and People 16-39. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.622 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.443 million - up 19.2% year-on-year. It achieved a BVOD Audience of 218,000 - up 21.8% year-on-year .
9News Sunday was the No. 1 program with Total People across Australia and in the three largest markets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It was also the No.1 news bulletin with all key demos across Australia. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 2.368 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.469 million, up 14.9% on the same night last year. It recorded a BVOD Audience of 137,000 (up 34.3% year-on-year).
60 Minutes dominated its timeslot with People 25-54 and People 16-39 across Australia. It also won with Total People in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. It registered a National Total TV Reach of 1.552 million and a Total TV National Audience of 753,000, up 8.7% on the same night last year. On 9Now, it secured a BVOD Audience of 85,000 (up 23.2% year-on-year).
Sunday Afternoon NRL won its timeslot across Australia and was a dominant timeslot winner in Sydney and Brisbane with Total People and all key demos. It recorded a National Total TV Reach of 1.088 million and a Total TV National Audience of 405,000, up 19.0% year-on-year.
Weekend Today won its timeslot with Total People in Sydney and Melbourne. It registered a Total TV Reach Audience of 749,000 , a Total TV National Audience of 266,000 and a BVOD Audience of 34,000 (up 25.9% year-on-year).
The 9Network was the No.1 network on Sunday across the 5 City Metro with Total People and all key demos.
9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD platform on Sunday with Total People and all key demos.
National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 41.6% National total TV audience share, 6.00pm to midnight: 40.7% 7plus: up 25.3% year-over-year 7NEWS: reaches 2.22 million The Voice: reaches 2.08 million 7NEWS Spotlight: reaches 1.38 million AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football: #1 sport, reaches 1.14 million Weekend Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 32% more viewers than Today
Seven Network reaches 5.9 million Australians nationally. 7plus: reach up 25.3% year-on-year. 7NEWS Sunday: National reach 2.22 million, national audience 1.41 million. The Voice Sunday**:** National reach 2.08 million, national audience 987,000. 7NEWS Spotlight: National reach 1.38 million, national audience 769,000. Seven’s AFL: Sunday Afternoon Football: #1 sport. National reach 1.14 million, national audience 380,000. Weekend Sunrise Sunday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 853,000, national audience 351,000. 32% more viewers than Today.
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight
Network
All people
25 to 54s
Grocery shoppers
Seven Network
41.6
36.0
41.9
Nine Network
42.0
44.6
42.1
Network Ten
16.4
19.4
16.0
NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight
Sydney
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 98,000
SYDNEY WEEKENDER SEVEN 91,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL 35,000
SUNDAY EARLY AFTERNOON NRLW 28,000
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRLW 27,000
Melbourne
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 143,000
POSTCARDS NINE 143,000
WOMEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 25,000
Brisbane
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 99,000
WEEKENDER SEVEN 88,000
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRLW 36,000
SUNDAY EARLY AFTERNOON NRLW 25,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 14,000
Adelaide
SOUTH AUSSIE WITH COSI SEVEN 61,000
HELLO SA NINE 48,000
Perth
BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE SEVEN 76,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 57,000
DESTINATION WA NINE 50,000
For 10 and Metro and the lead in show befor it, its actually pretty good. Not too far off its national launch in February that also had double the lead in numbers
I have a theory. I think audiences are fatigued by so many dramas which are dominated by female cast members. There have just been so may of them in recent years that they’re all looking very same same.
The Australian Survivor numbers are slightly better than I expected, given I was unsure if half the cast being overseas contestants would resonate with viewers. I’m guessing that it worked in luring some older school fans back (like myself, it is the first time I’ve watched Aus Survivor for a number of seasons). Also the shorter/sharper season makes it much more appealing which is the direction the Aus version needs to go towards IMO. It will be interesting to see how this holds up after a couple of nights
I’ve noticed that there is a lot of chatter in online Survivor circles in the US about this season (due to the specific US contestants involved). I saw an episode 1 watch party happening in the US with one of the contestants too. I’m not sure the mechanisms of overseas people watching but have seen talks of people planning to use VPNs which could fudge viewing numbers. It will be interesting if we see a big BVOD spike in the full week report or if Oztam don’t include those without a box?
I don’t really understand that logic given that Jonathan is hosting this season. More likely if there was going to be an impact, you would see that next season.
The launch of the latest season of Survivor on 10 actually did well. Made the Top 10. And still up against the powerhouse of Nine’s The Block (and to an extend Seven’s The Voice Blind Editions).
As for ABC’s The Family Next Door - another possible reason for its poor ratings is its timeslot - of 8pm. That’s in the midst of all three reality shows on the commercial stations. If it aired at 8.30pm, there’d may be a chance that people might switch over from other networks (although they’d still miss the first 10 minutes of it though). Compared to missing most of it.
10NEWS + reach is OK, so could indicate the 6-6:30pm slot is the problem and dragging the average down.
Maybe Sunday 6PM should be a 30MIN news bulletin and then current affairs stories packaged/presented as 10NEWS+
