• The Chase tops non-news
Total TV Ratings, December 13
The Chase on Seven has topped non-news, up 3% for a total audience of 692,000, while A Current Affair on Nine increased by 6% to reach 915,000.
On 10, British thriller Crossfire rose 43% to reach a total audience of 404,000.
With the Love Island Australia finale airing last night, the latest episode was up 468% for a total audience of 335,000.
Overnight TV Ratings, December 20
Primetime News
Seven News 813,000/770,000
Nine News 608,000/615,000
ABC News 492,000
10 News First 198,000 (5:00pm)/140,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 112,000 (6:30pm)/96,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 504,000
7.30 426,000
The Project 179,000 (6:30pm)/ 244,000 (7pm)
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 241,000
Today 182,000
News Breakfast 154,000
Late News
ABC Late News 34,000
Nine has narrowly won the network shares with 29.5%, while Seven has claimed the primary channel win with 21%. 9Gem topped multichannels with a 4.9% share.
Nine’s A Current Affair looked back at the events that led to the leader of an Australian neo-Nazi group punching a Channel 9 security guard six times. The program reached 504,000 views. Later in the evening, a repeat of Travel Guides was the network’s top entertainment program, clocking 371,000 views as the travellers explored the roads of South Australia.
The Adelaide Strikers took on Sydney Thunder in Seven’s Big Bash League, winning by six wickets and extending their unbeaten start to the season with six straight wins. Seven’s coverage brought in an audience of 326,000.
Earlier in the evening, The Chase topped non-news with 413,000.
7.30 brought 426,000 to the ABC as the show interviewed the new chairman of the Australian War Memorial, Kim Beazley, about Australia’s defence and the future of the War Memorial. A repeat of Anh’s Brush with Fame aired later in the night for 228,000.
On 10, The Project (179,000 6:30pm / 244,000 7pm) explored the people who shaped 2022 and spoke to the Queensland police union CEO about their plans to buy the property where two officers and a local man were murdered. Additionally, a repeat of Ambulance Australia clocked 173,000 views.
With the FIFA World Cup finishing up, a repeat of Who Do You Think You Are was the highest-rating program on SBS with 119,000 views.
