ABC’s Hard Quiz (891,000 and the most watched non-news program on the night) after 7.30 (816,000), then bed. Gruen (856,000) was OK, but the pillow claimed me just before the end. Such are the rigours of watching TV. Netflix and Prime saved up for what looks like a very long weekend with Friday the new Saturday for viewing.
That meant the Bachelorette on Ten was missed — just 325,000 nationally. That will lift by around 50% or so thanks to overnight catch-up and broadcaster video-on-demand viewing, but it is still not a good look. Seven’s Big Brother VIP — 433,000. America’s Got Talent after BBVIP — 201,000 nationally; streaming won’t save this turkey. Love Island 196,000, but that will more than double with overnight and streaming. Streaming will save this turkey.
Soft figures in breakfast for ABC News Breakfast (Lisa Millar is away) and for Ten’s Studio 10 which is now down to figures where the hosts will be able to address each viewer by name.
The digital channels had a total combined share of 36.6% last night. Summer is well and truly here when linear TV viewing stalwarts ignore the main offerings and head for the odds, sods and repeats and repeats of repeats on the digital channels.
Regional top five: Seven News, 532,000; Seven News 6.30, 519,000; Home And Away, 357,000; 7pm ABC News, 301,000; The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 301,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (28.8%)
- Seven (28.1%)
- ABC (19.0%)
- Ten (15.5%)
- SBS (8.6%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (18.7%)
- Seven (17.0%)
- ABC (14.0%)
- Ten (8.6%)
- SBS ONE (5.1%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.2%)
- 7TWO (4.0%)
- 10 Bold (3.5%)
- GO (3.4%)
- Gem (3.3%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.428 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.387 million
- Nine News 6.30 — 1.109 million
- Nine News — 1.104 million
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 954,000
- 7pm ABC News — 937,000
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 891,000
- Home And Away (Seven) — 884,000
- Gruen (ABC) — 856,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 816,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers
Losers: The Bachelorette, again, Big Brother VIP — a real loser.
Metro news and current affair
- Seven News — 896,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 868,000
- Nine News — 827,000
- Nine News 6.30 — 812,000
- ACA (Nine) — 664,000
- 7pm ABC News — 629,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 550,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 373,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 285,000
- Ten News First (ABC) — 274,000
Morning (national) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 422,000/234,000
- Today (Nine) — 333,000/233,000
- ABC News Breakfast (Nine) — 289,000/182,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 202,000
- Today Extra (Nine) — 167,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 32,000
Top 5 pay TV programs:
- Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 87,000
- China Rising (Sky News) — 81,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 64,000
- Credlin (Sky News) — 62,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 60,000
To state that our media is stale is backed up by these numbers.
We desperately need a commercial station that cultivates and encourages business that isn’t about high waste materialism.
The only programs that need to be bought from the US are ones that actually have some quality humour , music or educative insight into a sustainable future.
The drudgery of our news programs needs to be avoided, a useful strategy would be to have a look at commercial news and try to critique their rationale for showing the report, search for useful meaning and highlight the worst and explain why.
This could also be approached in a historic sense, such as the marches on capital cities to stop the Iraq war and the WMD fiasco, no news program stated the true number of people involved.
The gross lies or silence that has been peddled, children overboard, ditch the witch,the mining campaign on a carbon price, their is a very rich backlog that needs proper evaluation.
The relationship between the LNP/ Murdoch, an indepth look at the economic rationalist agenda that has been supported for more than 30 years and what has been lost.
Developing local talent , better quality soapy, music , art, encouraging and exploring business start up that has a sustainable and logical future.
The dire fact that our media is completely dominated by Neoliberal agenda making it basically impossible to create legislation that isn’t in the interest of political donors is because they control the output of information.
If Labor lose the next election it may just dawn on everyone who wants to see change that it is impossible in the current media environment.
We complain incessantly about the “idiots” that vote LNP yet most people believe the our media must have integrity ,therefore what they express is mostly valid, this is particularly true of our older population.
To believe that our media is propagating propaganda and can’t be trusted is socially isolating and a pressure on mental health.