Married At Frist Sight’s Thursday episode kept up the momentum of the series. It had the highest program reach but ranked second to Seven News on average audience nationally. That gave the show an average of 1.25 million across the first week with only a small drop off across the four episodes.
There was, however, no reality competition. It was up against an triple Home and Away on Seven while a new season of The Dog House Australia ranked 18th in average audience for 10.
Mrs Browns Boys later debuted its season but by outranked by Nine’s Emergency while Martin Clunes Islands of America ranked 17th for ABC. Earlier, Grand Transformations put in a good performance. New The Dog Hospital with Graeme Hall also made the top 30 for 10.
The Latest also made the rankings with a an earlier 10pm start time.
The Chase Australia was 40k ahead of Tipping Point Australia in the afternoon while Deal or No Deal missed the top 30 with reach but ranked 23rd on average. Meanwhile, Hard Quiz Repeats at 6.30pm are doing well for ABC.
Married at First Sight clocked up its fourth consecutive night as Australia’s No. 1 reality program with a National Total TV Reach of 2.340 million - more than 1.2 million viewers ahead of its nearest competitor.
Married at First Sight recorded a Total TV National Audience of 1.229 million (up 5.8% on the corresponding episode last year) and was a runaway timeslot winner in all metro capitals. It was the No. 1 program with Total People in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane and the No. 2 program in Adelaide & Perth.
Married at First Sight recorded a BVOD audience of 206,000 - up a massive 20.2% on the corresponding episode last year.
Tipping Point continues to be the No. 1 afternoon game show across the 5 City Metro with a National Total TV Reach of 1.118 million and a Total TV National Audience of 547,000.
Tipping Point has significantly boosted viewing figures across its timeslot. Yesterday’s national audience lifted the timeslot by 32.8% when compared to the corresponding day last year.
9News was the No. 1 news service with Total People in Melbourne. (where it was the No. 1 program with Total People and up 29% year-on-year).
A Current Affair was Australia’s No. 1 program at 7.00pm with a National Total TV Reach of 1.539 million and a Total TV National Audience of 971,000.
Today achieved a National Total TV Reach of 820,000 and was the No. 1 breakfast program in Sydney and Melbourne.
The 9Network was No. 1 across the 5 City Metro with all key demos and Total People - for the fourth consecutive night.
Much much better, not great, but definitely paints a more accurate picture.
Good that DOND is retaining most of it’s lead-in, and BVOD audience increases too. No doubt will add additional viewers with 7 day viewing which news in that slot wouldn’t.
This also paints a very different picture than solely relying on Reach as a key measurement.
MAFS seems to be up on overnights when combining metro and regional compared to last year. Combining the metro and regional to the same episode last year has it under a million.
Normally the Thursday in the first week is the lowest rating episode of every season.
Reminds me of Qantas. Everything is all about Sydney. Meanwhile the others get little.
Need to give all these game shows 2-3 months to start to normalise. Winter is generally the peak for these shows, July/Aug will be interesting. I think Chase will jump ahead again but I’d expect TP not too far behind.
Unknown if Fatigue will settle in to TP and people revert back.
Nine chiefs would be very happy with this week I’d imagine, with lifestyle and movie re-runs plus m/c (waiting for major winter sport to start) to come the next two nights
After the first week of new data, it seems that he following have abandoned split rankings - The Chase Au (after the first day), The Project, Seven’s Afternoon News.
Still with splits are all breakfast shows with commercials into 3 segments (5.30 and Early) plus The Morning Shoe and Today Extra still with an “extra” portion for the last 30 minutes. SBS World News is also coded as World News and World News 7pm.
In addition each reality show episode is coded differently so each will appear in the week’s rankings (rather than an average).
Don’t forget that Deal Or No Deal number is from three channels put together. Watch how dramatically that number will drop when the show just goes on one channel