Official ratings started last night but you would not have known. There was very little difference from the two previous Sunday nights. ABC’s Magical Land Of Oz narrated by Barry Humphries was the biggest change. Viewers tuned in for that debut (864,000 nationally) and the second episode of The Cry (707,000 nationally) and consigned Ten to a weak fourth place in total people and the main channels.
Insiders wont the morning — 583,000 on the ABC main channel and News 24. The ABC butchered Landline’s audience by moving it to 11am to accommodate a golf broadcast yesterday (and the move will be repeated next Sunday). Landline, Insiders and ABC News Breakfast were among the ABC’s best performers in 2018. What a silly decision.
Nine’s night because of MAFS (1.71 million nationally — what else can this lot say or do). MKR found a new leg and had its highest audience of this season (1.54 million) and its first million-plus metro audience (1.04 million, still well behind MAFS with 1.26 million).
In regional markets Seven’s 6pm News won with 507,000, from MKR with 503,000, MAFS with 454,000, 60 Minutes was with 370,000 and the 7pm ABC News with 328,000.
Network channel share:
- Nine (33.8%)
- Seven (29.4%)
- ABC (18.8%)
- Ten (15.7%)
- SBS (4.3%)
Network main channels:
- Nine (26.23%)
- Seven (22.8%)
- ABC (12.5%)
- Ten (10.4%)
- SBS ONE (2.7%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- GO (3.3%)
- 7mate (3.0%)
- 10 Peach (2.8%)
- ABC Kids/Comedy (2.7%)
- 10 Bold (2.3%)
Top 10 national programs:
- MAFS (Nine) — 1.718 million
- MKR (Seven) — 1.549 million
- Seven News — 1.458 million
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.274 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.258 million
- 7pm ABC News — 973,000
- I’m A Celebrity – Elimination (Ten) — 884,000
- Magical Land of OZ (ABC) — 864,000
- Operation Live (Seven) — 848,000
- I’m A Celebrity (Ten) — 773,000
Top metro programs:
- MAFS (Nine) — 1.263 million
- MKR (Seven) — 1.046 million
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News —951,000
- Nine News —940,000
- 60 Minutes (Nine) — 904,000
- 7pm ABC News — 645,000
- Insiders (ABC) — 390,000
- The Sunday Project 7pm (Ten) — 298,000
- 10 News First — 244,000
- The Sunday Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 176,000
- SBS World News — 120,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Insiders (ABC, ABC News) — 583,000
- Weekend Sunrise (Seven) — 394,000
- Weekend Today (Nine) — 279,000
- Offsiders (ABC) — 227,000
- Landline (ABC) — 135,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- Cricket: BBL (Fox Cricket) — 181,000
- Cricket: Between The Innings (Fox Cricket) — 170,000
- Cricket: BBL (Fox Cricket) — 156,000
- Cricket: BBL Post Game (Fox Cricket) — 109,000
- Cricket: T20, Game 3, NZ v India (Fox Cricket) — 84,000
Regarding the ratings season I won’t be watching the Drum anymore as its shifted to 6PM. Will watch local news then SBS news and ABC news at 7.
All that money to indulge the “hypocrisy of the left” conservative politics of Baird and Fanning – and to advertise “The Predictable Protracted Thoughts of ….. (various Limited News hacks) …..”.
You’re being charitable describing the decision to move the Landline timeslot for golf as silly Glenn. Looks more like the idiot programming wars continue within Aunty.
Does Landline have new stories ready for airing at this time of the year – or are they the usual rehashed/remix of stories covered through last year?
As for the golf – apparently there were a lot more players out on the course (especially from noon to three) than the three or four groups we were confined to following by their “coverage”, and definitely more than that “one and a third” (Haru Nomura) women’s group?
All that time taken up with prattle and “interviews” rather than golf? Nothing else happening “out there” on course?
But who’d know for sure?