Seven had a two-point win on Sunday though Nine’s main channel programs won all key timeslots across prime time. Without the Logies, Seven was down 10 point with Nine up three, ABC, 10 and SBS all up by abut two. For 10 and SBS it was their best Sunday share in six weeks.
The latest reveal episode of The Block lifted to a season-high 1.26 million viewers to easily win the 7pm spot. That was 200k ahead of The Voice that also hit a season high, over one million for the first time this season. ABC’s 7.30 offering of a Vera repeat did 588k while Hunted in its new 7pm Sunday spot had 469k, up 45k from the previous Sunday. SBS managed 143k for Titanic in Colour, its only top 30 entry.
Outrating them all was 9News Sunday that topped 1.3 million, a 30k lead over Seven’s bulletin.
Following, 60 Minutes had 759k. that was ahead of 7News Spotlight that had 614k, its highest audience since April. The return of FBI on 10 managed 186k.
In the afternoon AFL had 417k for a close game and a five-week high while NRL averaged 465k up slightly on the previous week. The NRLW did well to make the top 30.
Later 9News Late had 323k while 7News The Latest saw 280k tune in.
At breakfast Weekend Sunrise was on par with its usual results with 383k to be 100k ahead of Weekend Today that was less than 30k ahead of Weekend Breakfast.
10 News & The Project slightly down on last week, but they’d be buoyed by the increase for Hunted while it settles into it’s new 7pm timeslot and slotting FBI back into the schedule increased that following slot by a decent amount which was the right decision.
I’ve said this before, but they really just need to work on better/local lead-out options on Sundays which can retain the audience they build for their flagship programming, would lead to better shares and people watching rather than flicking off or over to the rivals.
The Block was Australia’s No.1 entertainment program with Total People and all key demographics. It also dominated primetime viewing with Total People in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The Sunday night episode recorded a National Total TV Reach of 2.261 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.257 million. On 9Now, it registered a BVOD audience of 187,000 (up 23.0% year-on-year).
9News Sunday was Australia’s leading news bulletin with People 25-54, People 16-39 and Total People. It was also the No.1 program of the night with Total People in Sydney and Brisbane. The combined national bulletins registered a National Total TV Reach of 2.217 million and a Total TV National Audience of 1.309 million (up 5.9% year-on-year). On 9Now, its BVOD audience of 103,000 was up 47.1% on the same night last year.
In Sydney, 9News recorded a massive 150,000 more viewers (Total TV National Audience) than its nearest competitor
60 Minutes was Australia’s program of choice for its timeslot with Total People and all key demographics. It also secured the evening audience with Total People in Sydney and Brisbane. It secured a National Total TV Reach of 1.731 million and a Total TV National Audience of 759,000 (up 15.9% year-on-year). Its BVOD audience was 70,000 - up 34.6% on the same morning last year.
Sunday Afternoon NRL dominated its afternoon timeslot with Total People in Sydney and Brisbane. It recorded a National Total TV Reach of 1.110 million and a Total TV National Audience of 465,000 - up 14.8% year-on-year.
The 9Network was the No.1 network across the 5 City Metro with People 25-54 and People 16-39.
9Now was the No.1 CFTA BVOD platform across Australia with Total People and all key demographics.
Still very competitive ane close between Seven and Nine, all day really from mid-arvo to late night. Seven got the network win, but Nine got the timeslot victories and key demos. Both would be happy so far I’d think. You could argue Nine would be disappointed no massive Olympics halo, but Seven couldn’t knock off NRL, news, Block or 60 Minutes (albeit higher bvod for Nine).
Big win for Nine in Sydney was enough to overcome Seven winning all other markets, though Nine won Brisbane in Total TV numbers.
The Block was well ahead of The Voice on the east coast and only a coup[le of thousand behind in SA and WA.
5 City
Syd
Mel
Bri
Ade
Per
Seven News
788,000
153,000
287,000
188,000
75,000
84,000
Nine News
805,000
286,000
239,000
186,000
50,000
45,000
10 News
164,000
43,000
54,000
27,000
16,000
24,000
Total TV
Seven News
827,000
Nine News
885,000
10 News
172,000
5 City
Syd
Mel
Bri
Ade
Per
Sunrise
205,000
59,000
47,000
46,000
20,000
33,000
Today
173,000
51,000
49,000
47,000
15,000
11,000
News Break
126,000
34,000
32,000
30,000
14,000
16,000
Note that these are broadcast TV numbers. That may sometimes lead to PR releases seeming to differ as to which program won a market if the network is using Total TV numbers that included live BVOD.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 147,000
SYDNEY WEEKENDER SEVEN 75,000
Melbourne
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL SEVEN 187,000
POSTCARDS NINE 106,000
Brisbane
WEEKENDER SEVEN 96,000
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NRL LIVE NINE 87,000
Adelaide
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Fremantle v Port Adelaide 7MATE 90,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOOTBALL Carlton v St Kilda SEVEN 57,000
HELLO SA NINE 23,000
Perth
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SEVEN 96,000
SEVEN’S AFL: SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 7MATE 83,000
DESTINATION WA NINE 21,000
Highest rated Sunday AFL in Melb? It sure did result in a big news boost for 7.
I can see why 7 was happy to give up Saturday for 15 weeks from next year and keeping the Sunday for the full 23 rounds. If they are able to get some good, high profile matches then news should get a boost
Spotlight and 60 Minutes splits would be interesting.
This did end up happening
Though didn’t end up beating Block, however Voice still did well (vs Sydney figure and margin), nor unsure how large HSV’s share margin was.
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7mate must’ve given Adelaide and Perth a bump, some high for there, looks like No. 1 programs beating news (and news looks to have been affected by the live AFL).
@TV.Cynic Using your experienced and respected MS ‘doyen’ analytical audience data skills How do you explain what happened last night, Cynic?
Nine win all timeslots, even news and nationally… Yet Seven win the night (and beyond margin of error) including metro even with bvod! So can’t just be the regional factor this time.
Has to be multi-channels, only thing that explains it, namely 7mate and probably helped by AFL spillover in Adelaide and Perth. Shame we can’t see them anymore. And maybe SAS-7 and TVW-7 main channel shares assisted to an extent too.
Wonder if Voice did well in vod (viewers catching-up on 7Plus before 2am) which I think is factored into bvod in the total shares?
Clearly 7Mate AFL coverage giving 7 a boost in Adelaide and Perth. And given that the games overlapped into prime time in meant that Seven’s network share was highest even if Nine had the number one main channel.
7 desperately need to find a way to improve their BVOD. 9Now absolutely dominating them. Without the streaming numbers 7news won & Block only 100k more & not 200k+