Total TV Ratings, January 18
Seven’s Home and Away has topped non-news TV ratings, lifting 29% to bring in 899,000 viewers.
On Nine, Day 3 of the Australian Open saw the evening session get an uplift of 6% to 591,000.
The Bachelors again had the most significant BVOD bump with the lift on overnight 55% with an audience of 580,000.
Overnight TV Ratings, January 25
Primetime News
Seven News 837,000 (6:00pm)/ 817,000 (6:30pm)
Nine News 624,000 (6:00pm)/ 623,000 (6:30pm)
ABC News 535,000
10 News First 247,000 (5:00pm)/ 131,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 84,000 (6:30pm)/ 117,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
The Project 140,000 (6:30pm)/ 209,000 (7pm)
The Drum 123,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 206,000
Today 201,000
News Breakfast 150,000
Nine took the title on Wednesday with a winning Australia Day eve share of 24.1% for its primary channel and a winning combined channel share of 33.4%. Nine was an east coast leader, but cricket and time differences helped Seven grab winning shares in Adelaide and Perth.
Most of the marquee players from previous Grand Slams are long gone in this tournament, but it was the biggest name left in the Australian Open that drew the Nine crowd last night. An audience of 475,000 tuned in to watch Novak Djokovic forge his way into the semi-finals on Friday. Most of that audience – 458,000 – stayed on later into the night to watch the later evening session.
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Seven’s Home and Away was on 434,000 up against the tennis.
The Big Bash League completed its long regular season of 56 games last night with Sydney Thunder claiming victory over Melbourne Stars with one over to spare as they reached the modest target of 120. The cricket had an audience of 273,000 which didn’t reflect the quality of the game on offer.
No 7.30 on ABC last night as the broadcaster devoted the timeslot to the announcement of the Australian of the Year in an event hosted by Hamish Macdonald and Susie Youssef. The audience of 282,000 got to know a little more about the good work being done by Taryn Brumfitt.
A repeat of Spicks and Specks was then on 193,000 followed by a trip to Utopia with 175,000 watching.
On 10 The Project (166,000 6:30pm / 265,000 7pm) featured Dan Sultan on the significance of January 26 and actor Brendan Fraser on the day he was nominated for an Oscar.
The Bachelors featured visits to the in-laws which should have helped the Bachelors with decisions about who to propose to. There were some big words thrown around, some awkward conversations and one of The Bachelors claimed, “I’m done”. The audience was 280,000 after 299,000 on Tuesday. The Wednesday episode was again the leader under 50 amongst entertainment programming.
The highest rating non-news show on SBS was actually on SBS Viceland – 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown with 64,000.
