Thursday 1 February 2024

TV Ratings Television Ratings
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These tables are new - they show the real top 30 ranked by average (rather than just a reordering of the reach table).

Ranked by average

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - Total TV -Ranked by Average Audience

TOTAL Rank Program Name Network TOTAL BROADCAST BVOD
1 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,260,000 1,218,000 43,000
2 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -THU Nine 1,229,000 1,023,000 207,000
3 9NEWS Nine 991,000 934,000 57,000
4 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 972,000 912,000 60,000
5 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 765,000 738,000 27,000
6 HOME AND AWAY Seven 736,000 662,000 75,000
7 7.30-EV ABC 625,000 604,000 22,000
8 HOME AND AWAY - LATE Seven 613,000 553,000 60,000
9 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 587,000 569,000 19,000
10 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 548,000 522,000 27,000
11 GRAND DESIGNS TRANSFORMATIONS-EV ABC 529,000 498,000 31,000
12 EMERGENCY Nine 482,000 440,000 43,000
13 MRS. BROWN’S BOYS Seven 478,000 461,000 18,000
14 MRS. BROWN’S BOYS - EP.2 Seven 448,000 435,000 14,000
15 SUNRISE Seven 403,000 381,000 22,000
16 TIPPING POINT Nine 380,000 368,000 12,000
17 MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF AMERICA-EV ABC 362,000 353,000 10,000
18 THE DOG HOUSE AUSTRALIA 10 355,000 345,000 11,000
19 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 348,000 333,000 15,000
20 TODAY Nine 327,000 298,000 29,000
21 SEVEN NEWS AT 4 Seven 290,000 282,000 9,000
22 10 NEWS FIRST 10 290,000 281,000 9,000
23 DEAL OR NO DEAL 10 289,000 272,000 17,000
24 THE PROJECT 10 282,000 272,000 10,000
25 THE LATEST: SEVEN NEWS Seven 267,000 260,000 8,000
26 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 264,000 250,000 14,000
27 HARD QUIZ S6 RPT ABC 241,000 234,000 7,000
28 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 239,000 225,000 15,000
29 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 233,000 220,000 13,000
30 THE DOG HOSPITAL WITH GRAEME HALL 10 211,000 207,000 4,000

Top 30 Programs - Free-to-Air - 25-54 -Ranked by Average Audience

TOTAL Rank Program Name Network TOTAL BROADCAST BVOD
1 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -THU Nine 531,000 398,000 133,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 268,000 245,000 23,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 243,000 209,000 34,000
4 9NEWS Nine 236,000 206,000 30,000
5 HOME AND AWAY Seven 208,000 165,000 44,000
6 EMERGENCY Nine 189,000 162,000 27,000
7 HOME AND AWAY - LATE Seven 173,000 139,000 34,000
8 TIPPING POINT AUSTRALIA Nine 125,000 112,000 14,000
9 GRAND DESIGNS TRANSFORMATIONS-EV ABC 121,000 106,000 15,000
10 ABC NEWS-EV ABC 120,000 107,000 13,000
11 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 119,000 110,000 10,000
12 MRS. BROWN’S BOYS Seven 118,000 108,000 10,000
13 MRS. BROWN’S BOYS - EP.2 Seven 117,000 110,000 8,000
14 TODAY Nine 114,000 97,000 18,000
15 THE DOG HOUSE AUSTRALIA 10 112,000 107,000 6,000
16 SUNRISE Seven 111,000 98,000 13,000
17 DEAL OR NO DEAL 10 107,000 98,000 10,000
18 7.30-EV ABC 104,000 94,000 11,000
19 THE PROJECT 10 100,000 94,000 7,000
20 THE LATEST: SEVEN NEWS Seven 84,000 79,000 5,000
21 SUNRISE -EARLY Seven 78,000 70,000 9,000
22 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT -WED -ENCORE Nine 77,000 73,000 5,000
23 NEWS BREAKFAST-AM ABC 76,000 69,000 8,000
24 10 NEWS FIRST 10 72,000 68,000 5,000
25 TODAY -EARLY Nine 70,000 59,000 12,000
26 MARTIN CLUNES: ISLANDS OF AMERICA-EV ABC 68,000 64,000 5,000
27 9NEWS AFTERNOON Nine 67,000 60,000 8,000
28 TIPPING POINT Nine 64,000 59,000 6,000
29 THE MORNING SHOW Seven 62,000 55,000 8,000
30 THE DOG HOSPITAL WITH GRAEME HALL 10 62,000 60,000 3,000
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This is awesome. Slowly improving.

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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.

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Only speculation, but I’m guessing the real breakdown for DOND is something like the following.

189k on the main channel
50k on Bold
50k on Peach

If this is the case, its clearly not working. 10 having news at 6pm was better on weekdays. And a lot cheaper to produce.

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Total TV Network Share

National, incl FTA + BVOD

Total 25-54 16-39
Seven 28.1% 24.3% 22.5%
Nine 31.1% 37.4% 41.3%
10 13.8% 16.4% 15.9%
SBS 8.2% 6.5% 4.7%
ABC 18.8% 15.4% 15.7%

FTA Network Share

Total 25-54 16-39
Seven 29.2% 25.3% 23.9%
Nine 30.0% 35.2% 37.1%
10 14.3% 17.8% 18.6%
SBS 7.8% 6.3% 4.4%
ABC 18.7% 15.3% 16.0%
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Here are some 5-city results (broadcast TV only) to ponder thanks to Nine. Enjoy :champagne:

News
Seven 765,000 179,000 205,000 162,000 100,000 118,000
Nine 690,000 160,000 249,000 156,000 51,000 74,000

Games shows (note Perth has TPA at 4pm)
Tipping 350,000 92,000 115,000 78,000 31,000 34,000
Chase 342,000 79,000 94,000 68,000 43,000 58,000
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Huh so just as Melbourne is becoming resurgent for Nine, Seven is gaining ground in Sydney and Brisbane even post Australian Open.

Certainly tells Nine that they can’t rest on their laurels either.

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Thank you TV.Cynic

  • are the news numbers missing Perth?
  • do you mean Chase rather than Deal here?
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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.

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Seven has a lot of work to do in Melbourne.

Now the locally made Tipping Point has overtaken The Chace.

Clearly Melbourne viewers are vacating the station across every timeslsot.

James Warburton centralising everything to Sydney seems to be working.

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Thanks - fixed.

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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.

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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

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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).

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9 News Perth seems to be narrowing the gap. Seems to be an improvement.

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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

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Mate… read above. I just acknowledged this in my post.

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A shame that SBS is still continuing with this split for their news.

I can understand why Sunrise and Today are still splitting their shows into three segments of “5.30am”, “Early” and “normal” (7-9am), as they are lengthy shows. For The Morning Show and Today Extra having “the extra” portion is silly though.

This has bothered my for some time. I wish these reality shows be averaged into 1, rather than have 4 or so entries each into the top 20 weekly shows. Or at least have two entries at most - “Married at First Sight - Sunday” (for the 7pm start), and “Married at First Sight Mon-Thurs” (for their 7.30pm start). Same for Idol and Survivor. A Sunday entry, and a weekday average entry.

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Home and Away-late slightly ahead of Home and Away in reach, but slightly behind in average. So a 7.30 slot, twice a week is totally feasible.
Just do it 7!
New current affairs at 7pm. Good lead in to 7.30, and you have 2 7.30 slots for week sorted with H&A.

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Something we’re going to notice I think, is the Friday and Saturday ratings, from tomorrow morning.

Networks (AFAIK) haven’t sent out releases for these days for many years, except the odd very notable result, like record post-initial COVID AFL return audiences in mid-2020 and AFL Finals or Australian Opens or Olympics / Comm Games. So we are unlikely to ever see shares and therefore who won what for these days ever again.

And the reach is going to really inflate the AFL, NRL and all the movies, it’s just going to be ridiculous.

And we are never going to see all those m/c shares and results ever again.

Unless of course the networks’ end-of-week wraps on Sunday/Monday highlight each day including weekends and m/c, but unlikely.

@TV.Cynic

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