Nine on the ground in Bali:

Some have spread the yarn that the Nine Network was
not allowed into Bali to report on the Bali Nine’s trials after the antics of A Current Affair and the
Today show during the last days of the Corby circus and the first two weeks of
the Bali Nine performance.

Well,
reports from the jailbirds’ paradise say Nine reporter, Mark Burrows, is up there
at the moment and when the stories were circulating in Sydney, had a visa safely
tucked away in his passport. Burrows will return from Bali shortly,
but will be back next month when the Bali
Nine’s court hearings are due to start.

Last night’s TV
ratings:

The Winners

 Seven again in a much closer finish than Tuesday
night, though it still had four of the top five programs. Ten also had
its best night with two of the top Ten. Nine had the rest, but it was
battling. The ABC also did very well, which is not unexpected being a
Wednesday. Ten’s House was the most
watched program with 1.63 million. Next were Home and Away (1.468 million), Today
Tonight (1.415 million), Beyond Tomorrow (1.365 million) – all on Seven.
McLeod’s Daughters was next and the top program for Nine with 1.346 million.
Temptation on Nine was 8th, with 1.227 million, 240,000 behind Home and Away
which continues to maintain a solid lead. Seven’s Blue Heelers at 8.30pm was
watched by an average 1.171 million, not up to its levels of last year.
The Losers

You could argue there were no real losers last night,
although there are a couple of programs the networks would have liked more from.
Rock School on Ten did 889,000, which is a bit low for a program with profile. The
Without a Trace repeat on Nine only did 839,000 – this program doesn’t have the ooomph
in repeats that CSI does, which means its life is limited. Forensic
Investigators on Seven beat it with 954,000 people, but Seven would like to see
it nip back over the million viewer mark. Both were beaten by NCIS on Ten with
1.323 million people.
News & CA

Nine News and ACA were again beaten, but this time more due to
big wins in Perth than on previous nights. Seven’s margins in Sydney at 6pm and
6.30pm narrowed a bit. Nine won Melbourne, TT won Brisbane but Seven News lost.
Seven News and TT won Adelaide and Perth. ABC News was the best program for the
national broadcaster with 1.116 million. The 7.30 Report was again a bit weak,
with 892,000. With so much happening politically (Telstra, Latham etc) you’d
expected another 50,000 viewers.
The Stats

Seven with a 28.3% share from Nine with 26.4% and Ten
with 25.2%. The ABC was up on 15.1% while SBS was on 5%. Seven won
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, but Nine won Adelaide.
Glenn Dyer’s
comments

Seven has now pulled to a narrow lead in the week, 26.5% to
Nine with 26.1% but has been weak on Thursday nights since Lost finished.
Nine and Ten both have the chance to do well tonight. The ABC won’t: MDA at 9.30pm is a dying beast. The Swans play tomorrow night and the Adelaide-West Coast
final is on Saturday evening. There is one NRL final on Saturday night and
another on Sunday afternoon. Nine’s got Survivor running on a Friday night and
it should do better than on Tuesday night. That plus the NRL game on Saturday
night might be enough to get it home in another close battle with Seven. But
Nine’s share will again be down, making harder its attempts to retain a
premium in current ad rate
talks.