The second part of How To Sell A Massacre on the ABC from 8pm to 8.50pm pulled in 678,000 nationally which was pretty solid considering it was right up against the AFL on Seven (838,000), NRL on Nine (769,000) and GoggleBox on Ten (813,000).
Even though Seven’s AFL saw Collingwood and Richmond playing, the channel’s audience fell from the 993,000 it pulled in last week for Richmond v Carlton, to 838,000 last night. In contrast the NRL game between Brisbane and St George on Nine saw the audience jump to 769,000 from the 693,000 who watched the all-Sydney game between Souths and St George. 228,000 watched the AFL on Fox Sports and the same number watched the NRL. A week ago, 263,000 watched the AFL and 230,000 the NRL game.
In regional Australia it was Seven’s 6pm News with 452,000 followed by Seven News/Today Tonight with 440,000, then the 7pm ABC News with 297,000, then the 5.30pm bit of The Chase Australia with 296,000 and the NRL game on Nine with 283,000.
Network channel share:
Seven (35.4%)
Nine (24.8%)
Ten (17.4%)
ABC (14.8%)
SBS (7.6%)
Network main channels:
Seven (23.4%)
Nine (18.4%)
Ten (11.7%)
ABC (9.1%)
SBS ONE (5.0%)
Top 5 digital channels:
7mate (4.1%)
7TWO (4.0%)
10 Bold (3.6%)
ABC Kids/Comedy (2.7%)
GO (2.6%)
Top 10 national programs:
Seven News — 1.30 million
Seven News/Today Tonight — 1.15 million *
Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.05 million
Nine/NBN News — 1.05 million
7pm ABC News — 893,000
AFL Game R2 (Seven) — 838,000
Gogglebox (Ten) — 813,000
The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 783,000
NRL (Nine) — 769,000
7.30 (ABC) — 757,000
* pre-empted in some markets by the AFL coverage
Top metro programs: None with a million or more viewers.
Losers: With the Footy back, no one really
Metro news and current affairs:
Seven News — 853,000
Nine News — 803,000
Nine News 6.30 — 789,000
Seven News/Today Tonight — 715,000 *
7pm ABC News — 596,000
7.30 (ABC) — 517,000
How To Sell A Massacre Part 2 (ABC) — 458,000
10 News First — 372,000
The Project 7pm (Ten) — 355,000
The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 238,000
* pre-empted in some markets by AFL coverage
Morning (National) TV:
Sunrise (Seven) — 465,000 (Metros: 287,000)
Today (Nine) — 275,000 (Metros: 191,000)
News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 257,000
The Morning Show (Seven) — 206,000
Today Extra (Nine) — 135,000
Studio 10 (Ten) — 77,000
Top five pay TV programs:
AFL: Carlton v Richmond (Fox Footy), NRL: St George v Souths (Fox League) — 228,000
The Late Show With Matty Johns (Fox League) — 104,000
AFL: Thursday Night Footy On Fox (Fox Footy) — 75,000
NRL: Thursday Night On Fox (Fox League) — 56,000
Both the “How to sell a massacre” must be repeated a week or so before the next election.
With a brother and sister living in England, one who voted stay and one remain, I have been able to keep abreast of the Brexit debate, and they in turn have been equally able to keep breast of the media coverage in Oz. I think from their perspective there is a feeling that the coverage here as been somewhat skewed toward the perceived anti immigration aspect, which is certainly part of the debate. The debates genesis centred around that there are over 55 million people living in England, which to get into perspective is an area smaller than Victoria. What is also of considerable concern, indeed more so in many people’s view, is the ever increasing “creep” of the E.U’s control. They see a political behemoth that wants more and more power and control, whilst the original mandate, and what they voted to enter, was predominantly an economic one.
Certainly my brother who voted ‘stay” would vote leave in any second referendum,simply because of what he sees as the appalling way the U.K have been treated in negotiations. Heviews a political elite who are genuinely concerned at an erosion of their power and authority if the U.K leaves.Put simply their is now a belief that they are being set up to fail, which I am told that most people understand this.
Those I favour of leaving agree that it is a step into an unknown, but that sometimes you have to make that call and then make it work outside the E.U ( not unlike non-member Switzerland)
Indeed, maybe there is lesson for us in that in my State ( S.A) we are subjected to no less than 5 levels of government, including 10+ councils for Adelaide and its suburbs, an upper house in State Parliament for which I have done my own survey and no one as yet been able to name more that 3 members. But most confusing to my siblings is that we are still not a Republic!
In regards to Shakira’s comments on the British food may I recommend a visit to a Birmingham’s Balti Curry houses, wonderful food. However, if she is going to Sydney I can advise of two places (of the four we visited)that we ate at recently, where the food was less than ordinary. Not indicative of the city overall I am sure, but poor nonetheless.