Wednesday: Week 14 2019
• Where did the MAFS audience go? Too see the home cooks
• My Kitchen Rules posts second best audience for 2019, Seven wins
• Nine slumps to rank #2 Wednesday after 11-week winning streak
• Seven News 974,000/1,020,000
• Nine News 868,000/896,000
• A Current Affair 776,000
• ABC News 683,000
• 7.30 657,000
• The Project 229,000/391,000
• 10 News First 371,000
• SBS World News 126,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 287,000
• Today 202,000
Seven
Home And Away has managed a third consecutive night over 700,000 after a strong start to the week with 740,000 and 748,000.
With no Married At First Sight to compete with last night, the home cooks have posted the second biggest audience of the year as the crowd watching surged to 916,000. The best number was 1.046m in week seven.
The hosts of The Front Bar had some fun with the cooking show last night, noting it went so long that it meant they started late. (Nearly 45 minutes later than Nine’s The Footy Show.) It didn’t matter – The Front Bar still performed very well with 393,000 metro and 263,000 in Melbourne. Both numbers were close to last week’s result.
Nine
After starting the week above 900,000, A Current Affair has subsequently dipped to the 800,000s and last night was in the high 700,000s.
Paramedics and RBT screened in different markets after 7.30pm with no Married At First Sight. The combined Nine audience in the slot was 536,000.
Nine subsequently recorded its lowest share on any night for a month, its lowest Wednesday share this year and ended an 11-week Wednesday winning streak.
The poor lead-in should have hurt The Footy Show, but the early start overcame that handicap with the audience steady week-on-week from 155,000 to 160,000 while the Melbourne audience was unchanged on 92,000.
10
The channel’s primary share was the best for several weeks, yet was still in single figures. 10 Bold had its best share for the year with 5.1% and outperformed SBS.
An episode of Bondi Rescue was the channel’s best with 399,000 while another episode and The Project were both on 391,000.
Two episodes of Law & Order: SVU did 208,000 and 182,000.
ABC
A bumper audience of 728,000 pushed the broadcaster’s Wednesday primary share to a year high of 14.2%. That was up from 658,000 last week.
Also growing significantly was The Weekly With Charlie Pickering – from 518,000 to 610,000 week-on-week.
You Can’t Ask That returned with an episode about domestic and family violence with 433,000 watching.
SBS
Great British Railway Journeys did 184,000 at 8pm.
The launch of Christians Like Us was on 178,000 for an hour at 8.30pm.
