Watching TV on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights should be a viewing crime under the Interesting Free To Air TV Watching Convention.
Last night was exhibit #345671 (nights) where we have been bored to Netflixing, except for those who like a rose and a meat market or a giggling, self-absorbed TV viewer on Gogglebox.
NRL and AFL viewing is not an exempt activity under the Convention. The drone of the commentators, especially Brian Taylor on the AFL, is a cruel and very inhumane punishment.
The Tour de France might be exempt but only if an Australian is doing well.
Gogglebox Australia, up again to 839,000 viewers and beat the lacklustre St Kilda-West Coast game on Seven (666,000) and the Wests-Souths NRL game on Nine (550,000).
So uninterested in the AFL game result that an extra 163,000 people tuned in the for the post-match chat. No such increase in audience for the NRL post-game chat show on Nine called Golden Point — 190,000 nationally, to a huge turn-off. That’s because it goes on and on.
Rose murdering on The Bachelor on Ten averaged 731,000. With Gogglebox, Ten won the demos, easily.
In breakfast: Sunrise, 451,000 national and 255,000 metro viewers; Today, 329,000 and 217,000; ABC News Breakfast, 91,000 and 186,000.
In regional markets Seven News, 588,000, Seven News 6.30, 563,000, The Chase Australia 5.30pm, 361,000; 7pm ABC News, 346,000; Home and Away, 310,000.
Network channel share:
- Seven (29.7%)
- Nine (24.2%)
- Ten (21.1%)
- ABC (13.6%)
- SBS (11.5%)
Network main channels:
- Seven (18.7%)
- Nine (17.1%)
- Ten (14.7%)
- ABC (9.4%)
- SBS ONE (7.7%)
Top 5 digital channels:
- 7mate (4.7%)
- 7TWO (4.4%)
- 10 Bold (4.3%)
- GO (2.4%)
- 9Life (2.7%), ABC Kids/Comedy, 10 Peach (2.1%)
Top 10 national programs:
- Seven News — 1.59 million
- Seven News 6.30 — 1.46 million
- Nine/NBN News — 1.26 million
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 1.24 million
- 7pm ABC News — 1.06 million
- The Chase Australia 5.30pm (Seven) — 925,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 917,000
- Home and Away (Seven) — 803,000
- Gogglebox Australia (Ten) — 839,000
- Seven’s AFL- Post Game — 829,000
Top metro programs: None with a million or more
Losers: Snore and more snorrrrrre
Metro news and current affairs:
- Seven News — 997,000
- Nine/NBN News — 978,000
- Nine/NBN News 6.30 — 931,000
- Seven News 6.30 — 904,000
- 7pm ABC News – 731,000
- A Current Affair (Nine) — 630,000
- The Project 7pm (Ten) — 505,000
- 7.30 (ABC) — 480,000
- Ten News First — 344,000
- The Project 6.30pm (Ten) — 316,000
Morning (National) TV:
- Sunrise (Seven) — 451,000/255,000
- Today (Nine) – 329,000/217,000
- News Breakfast (ABC, ABC News) — 291,000/186,000
- The Morning Show (Seven) — 244,000
- Today Extra (Nine) – 152,000
- Studio 10 (Ten) — 73,000
Top five pay TV programs:
- NRL:Wests v Souths (Fox League) — 216,000
- AFL: St Kilda v West Coast (Fox Footy) — 195,000
- AFL: Post Game (Fox Footy) — 103,000
- Paul Murray Live (Sky News) — 86,000
- The Bolt Report (Sky News) — 81,000
I assume the metro number for News Breakfast should be 291,000 – perhaps you’ve been hacked by someone from the Murdoch cave.
Or maybe by Bernard Keane seeking another/any chance to do down ABC News
I was extremely disappointed last night to see the lead story on SBS news was the item on the girl who could not attend her fathers funeral, the lead story should have been one of the happenings in the world with this story later in the bulletin in spite of Scomo pushing it.