I’m surprised that the shows on the other networks rated as well as they did under the circumstances, especially on Nine.
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Do we have a number on the Opening Ceremony for Sydney 2000s Olympics?
This was prior to Oztam ratings .
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The number I have seen most often for the Sydney Opening is 6.5 million metro including +2 million in Melbourne. With the closing rating slightly higher.
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5 Metro cities
|1|2000 Sydney Olympics Closing Ceremony|1 October 2000|7|6,641,000|
|2|2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony|15 September 2000|7|6,518,00|
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So, its safe to say this is the highest rating event since the 2000 games (or close to it).
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Yes, it is the highest rated program on one network. The William and Kate wedding ceremony is still reported as rating higher with metro 6 million.
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And people say that tv viewership is dead 
It’s safe to say that this is the biggest rating show on a single channel since the 2000 Olympics. What a truly amazing feat. Eclipsing other big events of the 2003 Rugby Final; Australian Open in 2004 (Lleyton Hewitt) and in 2022 (Ash Barty), plus the usual AFL/NRL Grand Finals.
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Those numbers probably drawn into perspective in that the five-metro universe estimate for “age 0+” would’ve probably been in the order of about 12 and a bit million back in 2000, as opposed to the 18 million used by OzTAM in 2023.
(grain of salt: I put together that estimate from the 2001 census numbers so 2000 might be slightly less, keeping in mind that I don’t know if the Nielsen ratings were the same “age 2+” universe OzTAM uses, so take a little slice off those numbers for the infants if necessary).
Both a much larger Australia and cities in particular two decades on, and certainly a limited choice of entertainment alternatives to television back then - not that you’d necessarily want that with an Olympics (where everyone was still excited over the movement, compared to the 2020s) on your back doorstep - hence more than a 50% share of the likely whole universe estimate back then.
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I feel for SBS who had that 3.9% share They have had nearly every major FIFA tournament since around the mid 80s and missed out completely on this tournament
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… and did their utmost to promote The World Game. 10 have tried in the last couple of years too but off course, as usual 7 pushes their way in with bucketloads of money! There only motive is money and promoting themselves. Good to have Optus as an alternative to watch the games.
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Wow those ratings are insane. I’ve been overseas for the past 2.5 weeks so missed a lot of the hype until Saturday when I checked socials everyone was suddenly talking about it. So to me it’s crazy seeing how much hype has built around this tournament. I was flying home during the semi-final match - Etihad had the game on their live 24 sports channel. A lot of people in the flight were watching, especially after that Sam Kerr goal a few people cheering then more and more people switched on.
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Yet FIFA don’t run on sentiment, or anything other than money; we all know that. (Doubly shown when they were threatening to black out several European countries and Japan, accusing broadcasters of lowballing their bids.)
Who can blame Seven (and Optus, and I’d say the same if Nine were screening it) to throw a large amount for a tournament at home (or half-home but NZ is close enough), with a popular and very marketable national team, and with the sentiment that this is our World Cup - given the likelihood of us hosting more than a sliver of a men’s WC will likely remain nil?
SBS will still probably be the anti-siphoning broadcaster of choice for soccer outside of our own time zone. Whether they do a whole tournament again depends on… probably Optus’ taste for it, or even the taste for something like a Nine-and-Stan (or much less likely, Ten-and-Paramount-Plus) deal.
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note to mods: post done in good faith - hopefully not breaching anything, as multiple national / total figures have been mentioned across threads today
For the record, for anybody interested for comparisons:
Ten’s 2010 MasterChef Winner Announced averaged 5.2m nationally (4m metro), with a peak minute of 5.7m.
Seven’s 2005 Australian Open Men’s Final averaged nearly 5.7m (4.04m metro), peak unknown. Note: the regional for this was over 1.63m - very close if not on par with last night’s Matildas (if I’m reading the reporting correct), which is somewhat surprising given metro was about half a million higher than 2006 (perhaps many regional chose Live Streaming - I think the ‘Total TV’ reports pre-VOZ showed BVOD breakdowns so might be able to see in 7 days). @TV.Cynic
Both MC and the tennis also had well over 1m in both Sydney and Melbourne.
And Seven’s 2003 Rugby World Cup Final was 4.01m metro, but IIRC no RegionalTAM yet and peak unknown.
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I mean, that’s the point with all the commercial networks, even 10.
Any network which doesn’t do that with sports rights needs to have their bosses sacked.
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According to VOZ figures out this afternoon, Sunrise and Today tied in metro ratings.
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VOZ numbers are not OzTAM metro numbers.
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What world do you live in? 
They’re a business… like all companies. Wake up.
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OzTAM 5CM includes duplicated data in spill markets, VOZ removes that.
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Thanks for being so nice. 
SBS promoted the code, that was my point. So that’s why 7 programs are so sh*t, just to make money, no thought of entertaining their audience. 
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When I see numbers like this I’m thinking, What were the other 18 million doing?
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