Thursday Week 31 2019
• Steve Smith saves the first Ashes Test for Australia and Nine
• Second night of The Bachelor drops to just under 700,000
• The Hunting and new Gourmet Farmer launch on SBS
• Seven News 950,000/930,000
• Nine News 815,000/805,000
• A Current Affair 716,000
• ABC News 595,000
• 7.30 476,000
• The Project 254,000/457,000
• 10 News First 342,000
• The Drum 172,000
• SBS World News 126,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 253,000
• Today 201,000
Seven
It’s been a while since Seven lost a network Thursday night, but Nine’s combo of Ashes cricket and live NRL was a magnet for viewers.
After three nights close to 700,000, Home And Away dipped to 565,000.
The Front Bar was then on 344,000 across the network, one of its smallest audiences this year. The Melbourne crowd was 197,000, which was down on recent FB numbers.
Nine
Cricket and NRL were key to Nine’s success across the country.
The Ashes started horrendously for Australia with three early wickets. Steve Smith then managed to steady the ship for the country and the broadcast rights holder. The audience for the first session across Nine and 9Gem was 695,000. The lunch break did 482,000 and then the second session was on 392,000.
The cricket was a key influencer in where Thursday viewers went. With NRL getting the primary channel in rugby league capitals, 9Gem did well with shares of 10.9% in Sydney and 11.9% in Brisbane.
The cricket was on Nine’s primary channel in Melbourne, which basked in a Thursday share 30.3% which the channel hasn’t seen since the glory days of The Footy Show.
The NRL did good business in its key territories – 204,000 in Sydney and 83,000 in Brisbane.
10
The Bachelor’s Matt Agnew saw the audience for the second episode of the new season dip from 828,000 to 693,000. Melbourne remains the strongest market with 238,000 last night.
Two episodes of Law & Order: SVU then did 275,000 and 205,000.
ABC
Escape From The City was on the edges of Hobart on a very cold day filmed in May last year. It might be a big shock for the couple moving from Sydney’s northern beaches. The audience was 389,000.
SBS
A solid couple of hours of drama from 8.30pm with the new Aussie series The Hunting launching with 277,000.
Later The Handmaid’s Tale was on 199,000.
Earlier in the night at 8pm Matthew Evans returned with a new season of Gourmet Farmer on 168,000.
