Sunday 22 February 2026

TV Ratings Television Ratings
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Australian Idol up 98% year-on-year on 7plus

  • National total TV audience share, 6.00am to midnight: 32.3%
  • 7plus: up 50% year-on-year
  • 7NEWS: reaches 1.98 million
  • Australian Idol: reaches 1.77 million
  • Weekend Sunrise: #1 at breakfast, 27% more viewers than Today

Seven Network reaches 5.48 million Australians nationally.

7plus: reach up 50% year-on-year.

7NEWS Sunday: National reach 1.98 million, national audience 1.26 million.

Australian Idol Sunday**:** National reach 1.77 million, national audience 817,000. Streaming up 98% year-on-year.

Supercars Championship: Sydney 500 Sunday Race: National reach 1.17 million, national audience 336,000. Race audience more than doubles year-on-year on 7plus Sport.

Murder On a Cruise: National reach 1.04 million, national audience 306,000.

Weekend Sunrise Sunday: #1 breakfast program. National reach 858,000, national audience 372,000. 27% more viewers than Today.

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00am to midnight

Network All people 25 to 54s Grocery shoppers
Seven Network 32.3 25.1 32.7
Nine Network 54.2 61.0 54.0
Network Ten 13.4 14.0 13.2

NATIONAL TOTAL TV COMMERCIAL SHARES (%): 6.00pm to midnight

Network All people 25 to 54s Grocery shoppers
Seven Network 28.8 19.8 29.2
Nine Network 58.3 66.6 57.9
Network Ten 12.9 13.6 12.9
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They did not mention what this means though. Dear me, they don’t have to make this super confusing.

A drawback of OzTAM not requiring networks to disclose timebands of their programs.

The reason I asked was there were 4 programs: D14 overnight, D15 early, D15 overnight, D16 overnight.

A broadcast day is 2am-2am, therefore it cannot contain D14. 2am-10am would still be the continuation of D15.

And if I understood this correctly, the “early morning” comes before the “overnight”, which makes absolutely no sense at all.

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Woeful for 10

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It depends on the states watching

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I had a feeling Sunday was going to be big after Wednesday’s drama… and there you go.

10 would have to be disappointed in the finale ratings for I’m a Celeb. There were episodes doing better a couple of weeks ago (And yes MAFS was competition then too). Viewers really just dropped off towards the end of this season.

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Is Idol down year-on-year so far? seems to be?

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After 7 eps this year average overnight is 849,000. After same eps last year 874,000 - last year got of to a +1 million start - this year was 904,000.