The ratings race: the most watched weekday of the year
Updated 10 am Wednesday May 10.Peter Costello's budget speech on the ABC at 7.30 attracted 798,000 viewers in the mainland capitals last night -- a strangely small audience for such an important national event. Apparently a few Australians were distracted by some sort of dancing show on Channel Seven, which pulled in 2.66 million viewers. There were also newsbreaks about some sort of mining story. Click here to find out where that fits in the list of most watched programs of all time.
Australians had tuned in from early in the morning, when the release of two miners finally gave an audience to Nine's 'Today' -- 529,000, the best figure it has ever had. But against it, Seven's 'Sunrise' got 839,000, the best figure IT'S ever had. Sunrise peaked at 1.04 million at 7.30am.
At 5.30 pm, Bert Newton got his best ever figure for 'Family Feud' -- 770,000, only to find his competitor, Andrew O'Keefe, getting 1.04 million, which put 'Deal or No Deal' in the top ten for the first time. At the same time, Ten's News At Five did its best performance of the year, with 1.16 million viewers.
The viewers stayed with Seven for the rest of the night, giving it 44.9 per cent of the prime time audience, while Nine got 21.6, Ten 18.2, the ABC 11.2, and SBS 3.7. To put it another way, between 6pm and 10.30 pm on Tuesday night, a total of 5,026,600 people in the mainland capitals were watching free to air TV, divided up thus: 7 2.269m, 9 1.095m, 10 880,000, ABC 587,000 and SBS 194,000.
On the equivalent Tuesday last year, a total of 4,613,400 were watching, divided up thus: 7 1.235m, 9 1.393m; 10 1.050m; ABC 736,000 and SBS 199,000. So if you want to pull a crowd, don't even think of using Peter Costello. Try Todd Russell or Grant Denyer.
What Australia watched, Tuesday1 Dancing With The Stars final (7) 2.7m2 Seven news (7) 1.9m3 Today Tonight (7) 1.7m4 All Saints (7) 1.7m5 Nine News (9) 1.6m6 A Current Affair (9) 1.3m7 Big Brother (10) 1.3m8 Ten News At Five (10) 1.2m9 Deal or No Deal (7) 1.0m10 ABC News (ABC) 997,000(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 10 am Tuesday May 8.Monday was a huge viewing night, in which 18 shows drew more than a million viewers. The pale cop beat the tarty wives again, but it was the latest on the miners that the viewers really craved, and they were more inclined to trust Nine to give it to them than Seven. Nine's news and 'A Current Affair' had a rare victory over Seven's news and 'Today Tonight' in every city but Perth. Ten's early news at 5pm got 1.1 million, as did the ABC's 7pm news (both up 200,000 on their usual performance).
Nine won the night with a prime time audience share of 29.9 per cent, followed by Seven on 26.8, Ten on 21.6, ABC on 17.3 and SBS on 4.5.
Click here for a column on what Australians watch between 9am and 4pm. Is Kerri-Anne really Queen of the Day?
What Australia watched, Monday1 Cold Case (9) 1.7m2 Seven news (7) 1.7m3 Desperate Housewives (7) 1.6m4 A Current Affair (9) 1.6m5 20 to 1 (9) 1.6m6 Nine news (9) 1.6m7 Today Tonight (7) 1.5m8 Big Brother nomination (10) 1.3m9 Temptation (9) 1.3m10 Home and Away (7) 1.3m11 Big Brother (10) 1.2m12 Ten news at five (10) 1.1m13 The Great Outdoors (7) 1.1m14 ABC news (ABC) 1.1m15 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (ABC) 1.0m(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 11.30 am Monday May 8.The expectation of the release of trapped miners, and the discovery that a journalistic icon had died on the job brought a record audience to Channel Nine's news on Sunday night -- 2.48 million viewers in the mainland capitals. Most of them stayed around for 60 Minutes, the cleavage and cosmetics parade, and four hours of nostalgia and award presentations.
Nine won the night with an amazing 45.6 per cent of the prime time audience, followed by Seven with 21.6, Ten with 19.3, the ABC with 10.2 and SBS with 3.3. And even with the Logies, the Big Brother Eviction still managed to attract 1.3 million for the chance to see the removal of Tilly and Elise.
What Australia watched, Sunday1 Nine news Sunday (9) 2.5m2 Logie arrivals (9) 2.3m3 Logie awards (9) 2.1m4 60 Minutes (9) 2.1m5 Where Are They Now (7) 1.4m6 Sunday football (9) 1.3m7 Big Brother eviction (10) 1.3m8 Seven news Sunday (7) 1.3m9 Ghost Whisperer (7) 1.1m10 Big Brother (10) 1.0m(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 10 am Sunday May 7.This week, Channel Nine begins its fightback. Beaten by Seven or Ten in seven of the ten ratings weeks so far this year, and squeaking to victory last week mainly because of its Friday night football, Nine has finally decided to return fire.
On Thursday it launches two new shows to compete with Seven's fading hit 'Lost' and Ten's rising hit 'Medium' -- 'Hello Goodbye', a tearjerker reality series about Sydney airport, and the police documentary 'Missing Persons Unit'.
Nine has been surprised and delighted by the resurgence of its crime show 'Cold Case', which was thrown in as a replacement for 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and managed to beat Seven's blockbuster 'Desperate Housewives' last Monday. Cold Case attracted 1.71 million viewers in the mainland capitals, to the Housewives' 1.62 million.
Seven won Tuesday night, thanks to 2.3 million viewers for 'Dancing With The Stars'. Ten won Wednesday night, thanks to 1.8 million viewers for 'Thank God You're Here', the most successful new Australian program of 2006, and to Big Brother audiences which are better than last year.
As of Friday morning, Seven was ahead for the week, but after the AFL and NRL matches on Friday night totalled 1.8 million viewers, Nine won the week with a prime time audience share of 29.4 per cent, followed by Seven on 28.1, Ten on 23.8, The ABC on 14.0 and SBS on 4.7.
Australia's most watched shows, week ending May 61 Dancing With The Stars (7) 2.30m2 Nine news Sunday (9) 1.95m3 Friday night football (9) 1.76m4 Thank God You're Here (10) 1.75m5 CSI (9) 1.72m6 Cold Case (9) 1.71m7 60 Minutes (9) 1.66m8 Desperate Housewives (7) 1.62m9 20 To 1 (9) 1.61m10 All Saints (7) 1.59m11 Big Brother Fake Eviction (10) 1.59m12 House (10) 1.54m13 Seven News (7) 1.53m14 Today Tonight (7) 1.52m15 Getaway (9) 1.48m16 Seven news Sunday (7) 1.46m17 Prison Break (7) 1.47m18 Lost 1.45m19 McLeod's Daughters (9) 1.41m20 Big Brother nomination (10) 1.39m(OzTAM mainland capitals)
The Bill on Tuesday got 820,000 across the mainland capitals and 263,000 in Melbourne, and on Saturday 858,000 and 245,000. Seven news beat Nine news in every city except Brisbane.
The Tribal Mind column by David Dale appears every Tuesday in The Sydney Morning Herald, and the ratings details are updated each weekday. Past columns can be found at www.smh.com.au/tribalmind. David Dale is the author of 'Who We Are -- A miscellany of the new Australia' (Allen and Unwin).
Australians had tuned in from early in the morning, when the release of two miners finally gave an audience to Nine's 'Today' -- 529,000, the best figure it has ever had. But against it, Seven's 'Sunrise' got 839,000, the best figure IT'S ever had. Sunrise peaked at 1.04 million at 7.30am.
At 5.30 pm, Bert Newton got his best ever figure for 'Family Feud' -- 770,000, only to find his competitor, Andrew O'Keefe, getting 1.04 million, which put 'Deal or No Deal' in the top ten for the first time. At the same time, Ten's News At Five did its best performance of the year, with 1.16 million viewers.
The viewers stayed with Seven for the rest of the night, giving it 44.9 per cent of the prime time audience, while Nine got 21.6, Ten 18.2, the ABC 11.2, and SBS 3.7. To put it another way, between 6pm and 10.30 pm on Tuesday night, a total of 5,026,600 people in the mainland capitals were watching free to air TV, divided up thus: 7 2.269m, 9 1.095m, 10 880,000, ABC 587,000 and SBS 194,000.
On the equivalent Tuesday last year, a total of 4,613,400 were watching, divided up thus: 7 1.235m, 9 1.393m; 10 1.050m; ABC 736,000 and SBS 199,000. So if you want to pull a crowd, don't even think of using Peter Costello. Try Todd Russell or Grant Denyer.
What Australia watched, Tuesday1 Dancing With The Stars final (7) 2.7m2 Seven news (7) 1.9m3 Today Tonight (7) 1.7m4 All Saints (7) 1.7m5 Nine News (9) 1.6m6 A Current Affair (9) 1.3m7 Big Brother (10) 1.3m8 Ten News At Five (10) 1.2m9 Deal or No Deal (7) 1.0m10 ABC News (ABC) 997,000(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 10 am Tuesday May 8.Monday was a huge viewing night, in which 18 shows drew more than a million viewers. The pale cop beat the tarty wives again, but it was the latest on the miners that the viewers really craved, and they were more inclined to trust Nine to give it to them than Seven. Nine's news and 'A Current Affair' had a rare victory over Seven's news and 'Today Tonight' in every city but Perth. Ten's early news at 5pm got 1.1 million, as did the ABC's 7pm news (both up 200,000 on their usual performance).
Nine won the night with a prime time audience share of 29.9 per cent, followed by Seven on 26.8, Ten on 21.6, ABC on 17.3 and SBS on 4.5.
Click here for a column on what Australians watch between 9am and 4pm. Is Kerri-Anne really Queen of the Day?
What Australia watched, Monday1 Cold Case (9) 1.7m2 Seven news (7) 1.7m3 Desperate Housewives (7) 1.6m4 A Current Affair (9) 1.6m5 20 to 1 (9) 1.6m6 Nine news (9) 1.6m7 Today Tonight (7) 1.5m8 Big Brother nomination (10) 1.3m9 Temptation (9) 1.3m10 Home and Away (7) 1.3m11 Big Brother (10) 1.2m12 Ten news at five (10) 1.1m13 The Great Outdoors (7) 1.1m14 ABC news (ABC) 1.1m15 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton (ABC) 1.0m(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 11.30 am Monday May 8.The expectation of the release of trapped miners, and the discovery that a journalistic icon had died on the job brought a record audience to Channel Nine's news on Sunday night -- 2.48 million viewers in the mainland capitals. Most of them stayed around for 60 Minutes, the cleavage and cosmetics parade, and four hours of nostalgia and award presentations.
Nine won the night with an amazing 45.6 per cent of the prime time audience, followed by Seven with 21.6, Ten with 19.3, the ABC with 10.2 and SBS with 3.3. And even with the Logies, the Big Brother Eviction still managed to attract 1.3 million for the chance to see the removal of Tilly and Elise.
What Australia watched, Sunday1 Nine news Sunday (9) 2.5m2 Logie arrivals (9) 2.3m3 Logie awards (9) 2.1m4 60 Minutes (9) 2.1m5 Where Are They Now (7) 1.4m6 Sunday football (9) 1.3m7 Big Brother eviction (10) 1.3m8 Seven news Sunday (7) 1.3m9 Ghost Whisperer (7) 1.1m10 Big Brother (10) 1.0m(OzTAM preliminary estimates, mainland capitals)
Updated 10 am Sunday May 7.This week, Channel Nine begins its fightback. Beaten by Seven or Ten in seven of the ten ratings weeks so far this year, and squeaking to victory last week mainly because of its Friday night football, Nine has finally decided to return fire.
On Thursday it launches two new shows to compete with Seven's fading hit 'Lost' and Ten's rising hit 'Medium' -- 'Hello Goodbye', a tearjerker reality series about Sydney airport, and the police documentary 'Missing Persons Unit'.
Nine has been surprised and delighted by the resurgence of its crime show 'Cold Case', which was thrown in as a replacement for 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and managed to beat Seven's blockbuster 'Desperate Housewives' last Monday. Cold Case attracted 1.71 million viewers in the mainland capitals, to the Housewives' 1.62 million.
Seven won Tuesday night, thanks to 2.3 million viewers for 'Dancing With The Stars'. Ten won Wednesday night, thanks to 1.8 million viewers for 'Thank God You're Here', the most successful new Australian program of 2006, and to Big Brother audiences which are better than last year.
As of Friday morning, Seven was ahead for the week, but after the AFL and NRL matches on Friday night totalled 1.8 million viewers, Nine won the week with a prime time audience share of 29.4 per cent, followed by Seven on 28.1, Ten on 23.8, The ABC on 14.0 and SBS on 4.7.
Australia's most watched shows, week ending May 61 Dancing With The Stars (7) 2.30m2 Nine news Sunday (9) 1.95m3 Friday night football (9) 1.76m4 Thank God You're Here (10) 1.75m5 CSI (9) 1.72m6 Cold Case (9) 1.71m7 60 Minutes (9) 1.66m8 Desperate Housewives (7) 1.62m9 20 To 1 (9) 1.61m10 All Saints (7) 1.59m11 Big Brother Fake Eviction (10) 1.59m12 House (10) 1.54m13 Seven News (7) 1.53m14 Today Tonight (7) 1.52m15 Getaway (9) 1.48m16 Seven news Sunday (7) 1.46m17 Prison Break (7) 1.47m18 Lost 1.45m19 McLeod's Daughters (9) 1.41m20 Big Brother nomination (10) 1.39m(OzTAM mainland capitals)
The Bill on Tuesday got 820,000 across the mainland capitals and 263,000 in Melbourne, and on Saturday 858,000 and 245,000. Seven news beat Nine news in every city except Brisbane.
The Tribal Mind column by David Dale appears every Tuesday in The Sydney Morning Herald, and the ratings details are updated each weekday. Past columns can be found at www.smh.com.au/tribalmind. David Dale is the author of 'Who We Are -- A miscellany of the new Australia' (Allen and Unwin).
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