The first one day international match on pay TV (Fox Cricket) was yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Australian XI against South Africa. The Aussie win was watched by an average 44,000 for the two sessions (45,000 and 43,000 respectively). Now, before the doomsayers appear, it was poorly promoted, it was on a Wednesday and most of the Australian side were unknown players, so for cricket fans no real reason to watch. The first full ODI is on Sunday on Fox Cricket and will be a far better test of the new, expensive pay TV cricket contract for Fox Sports and Foxtel.
ABC finished third overall, pushing Ten to fourth (Ten will bounce back tonight with Bachelorette and Gogglebox). The ABC led from 7pm with the news on 998,000 national viewers, 7.30 on 916,000. At 8pm, Hard Quiz did better, gathering 1 million viewers, with Shaun Micalleff’s Mad As Hell at 8.30pm with 989,000. The debuting Tomorrow Tonight averaged a solid 871,000 (needs a few more runs before putting in it a big race).
Seven won total people, the main channels and the demos with solid efforts from the news (1.38 million) and news/Today Tonight (1.32 million). Bride and Prejudice — The Forbidden Wedding did OK for Seven last night with 788,000, the lowest audience of the series so far and down 12.6% fro the first night. Ten’s The Bachelorette fell to average a weak 694,000. Nine’s Family Food Fight averaged 532,000, up from 500,000 the night before.
Network channel share:
- Seven (32.2%)
- Nine (26.9%)
- ABC (20.3%)
- Ten (18.6%)
- SBS (7.8%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (21.7%)
- Nine (17.2%)
- ABC (153.6%)
- Ten (12.8%)
- SBS ONE (5.6%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7TWO (4.2%)
- GO, Boss (ONE) (4.1%)
- 7mate (3.9%)
- Gem (3.4%)
Top 10 national programs: Seven News — 1.414 million
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.383 million
- The Block (Nine) — 1.321 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.054 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.051 million
- Hard Quiz (ABC) — 1.005 million
- 7pm ABC News — 998,000
- Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ABC) — 989,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 956,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 926,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 916,000
Top metro programs: none with a million or more viewers.
Losers: Ten, Nine.
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 918,000
- Seven News/Today Tonight — 885,000
- Nine News — 797,000
- Nine News — 6.30 — 791,000
- 7pm ABC News – 694,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) – 660,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 625,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 452,000
- Ten Eyewitness News — 330,000
- The Project — 6.30pm (Ten) — 234,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) – 449,000
- Today (Nine) – 339,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 236,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 204,000
- Mornings (Nine) — 143,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 68,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Googlebox (LifeStyle) — 189,000
- Love It Or List It Australia (LifeStyle) — 150,000
- Grand Designs (LifeStyle — 74,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 46,000
- Cricket: Prime Minister’s X1 v South Africa (Fox Cricket) — 44,000
A Crabb puff PR piece, to work on Bishop’s image? Can’t wait til she and Charlie have Cousin Jethro on, for his make-over.
Agreed klewso; something to look forward to. In fact there’s a complete season if they book up the entire cabinet to do one night stands.
What a standard?
They missed it this time, but maybe next time they’ll get around to asking “Lady Penelope” about why she mislead parliament about those letters Monis wrote that Brandis’ department was in possession of? Wottahoot?
Why she went to India (with Cousin Jethro and Gambaro) for Gina to show them off as examples of Gina’s pull and political clout, at that wedding and contract signing – and who/why paid for her return flight? More fun than a vindalloooooo afterburn?
How much we pay to have her jet around the country to watch her West Coast Eagles play – and some of the ways she “schedules” business to coincide with those games – so that we get to pay? What a bunch of “marks”?
Some of her “bull in a China shop moments”? …Pass the Tarzan’s Grip…
What sort of deals she did with Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa “Raja” over Tamil refugee returns? ….. What jolly japes – “Pointing Percy to the Persecuted”?
Classic TV comedy?
With a “career” based on ready access to politicians, it ill-affords one to be asking them ticklish questions about their actions, habits, “responsibility” and “accountability”?
No, better to restrict oneself to comment on “the public devolution of trust in politics” and speculate on “why?” : while you’re busy indulging selected politicians and letting them get away with what they do, with a giggle and a “wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more”?
Crabb was once a good, analytical journalist and an insightful commentator.
What happened?