The merry-go-round that is Sky News’ interviews with Prime Minister Scott Morrison this year continued last night on Paul Murray Live. A fabulous audience of just 90,000 watched — unchanged from a week ago when the program was sans-PM, and down from 101,000 on Tuesday night. Not an extra viewer was added!
It is the fourth interview our PM has done with the News Corp PR service this year — two with Murray, one a week or so ago with Chris Kenny and the first for the year back in early March with Peta Credlin (which, by the way, garnered 38,000).
That’s three Sky talking heads to fill in for David Speers who would have done the lot if he’s stayed at Sky and not gone to the ABC and Insiders. Speers’ first report for Four Corners on Monday night was watched by 1.05 million people nationally. That’s what his talent and the ABC’s reputation gets. That it took Sky three people to fill the hole Speers left speaks volumes.
Elsewhere it was a close night, a bit for everyone bar Doctor Doctor on Nine — 720,000 nationally meant it ran a weak fourth at 7.30 behind MasterChef (1.26 million) and Hard Quiz (1.06 million) on Ten, 7.30 (1.11 million) on the ABC and Britain’s Got Talent (860,000) on Seven.
Network channel share:
- Seven (25.8%)
- Nine (24.9%)
- Ten (21.1%)
- ABC (20.0%)
- SBS (8.2%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.4%)
- Nine (16.9%)
- ABC (14.8%)
- Ten (14.7%)
- SBS ONE (4.9%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 10 Bold (4.3%)
- 7TWO (3.1%)
- GO (2.8%)
- 7mate (2.7%)
- Gem (2.4%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.967 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.841 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.476 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.469 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.327 million
- Masterchef Australia (Ten) — 1.261 million
- ACA (Nine) — 1.195 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 1.118 million
- 7.30 (ABC) — 1.115 million
- Home and Away (Seven) — 1.064 million
Top metro programs:
- Seven News — 1.291 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.192 million
- Nine News — 1.135 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.106 million
Losers: Seven and Nine — deadish
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 1.291 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.192 million
- Nine News — 1.135 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.106 million
- 7pm ABC News — 929,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 852,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 779,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 615,000
- ACA & 7.30 (Nine) — 597,000
- Ten News First — 466,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 359,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 525,000/314,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 360,000/238,000
- Today (Nine) — 356,000/238,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 304,000
- Mornings (Nine) — 198,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 98,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Gogglebox Australia (LifeStyle) — 181,000
- Selling Houses Australia(LifeStyle) — 144,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 90,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 86,000
- Supercars eSeries (Fox Sport) — 76,000
Sky could triple and more its ratings if it employed some proper interviewers. I believe Barrie Cassidy is not very busy these days and perhaps Sarah Ferguson could be tempted to give up her Beijing gig for the right dollar.
Why would any decent journalist sully their reputations to go there and interview an arse kisser like Morrison?
Why would any decent journalist sully their reputations to go there and interview an arse kisser like Morrison?
Coprophilia?
“That it took Sky three people to fill the hole Speers left speaks volumes.”
Credlin and Murray are not journalists and whilst Kenny doubles from The Australian, none have the ability of Speers, who incidentally made a good move to the ABC – good for both !
Can’t agree with you about Spears, Terry. He may be the ‘best interviewer since sliced bread’, according to some, but he has completely wrecked Insiders.
It is all about him…and I thoroughly dislike his gotcha type attack questions, usually employed against anyone from the ‘left’ of politics.
But when he has turned it into a News Corpse shadow of its former self, complete with at least two of the three people on the couch being RWNJs…usually with past or present attachments to this appalling media company… I’m out of there.
As if we don’t have enough propaganda, misinformation, manipulation and outright lies from News Corpse as it is. NO…they are slowly taking over the ABC, since they can’t get rid of it any other way!!
Spivsy? That cherry-picking “what a great job the Morrison government’s done” PR snow job of his from 4 Corners the other night?
Sans reference/mention of :-
* Beloved Fearless Leader’s “Let’s all go to the (Sharkies) footie this weekend”;
* the bungle of the Ruby Princess by Dutton’s Duffers;
* the Centrelink crash and what went on around that, when all those people were tossed out of work a couple of weeks ago?
And no reflection on “how in touch with the electorate Fraudberg is” when it was left to Soli Lew, going to tears, brought home “how all these sackings were impacting”?
The latest of Rupert’s tabloid inoculants to the ABC….
…. Not to mention his influence in the choices of “news media experts” lined up to be on his Sunday’s “The Muppets Insiders Show”?
…. Maybe that should be “Kermit” Speers?
I’m always amazed by the miracle of Sky News, …people tell me they have talking maggots.