• Winter Olympics continue to come up trumps in key dayparts
• Best of the rest: Home and Away, A Current Affair, Bondi Rescue, Territory Cops
Total TV Ratings, February 3
Married at First Sight has continued to be the top non-news program in the total TV ratings with 1.244m viewers, an increase of 23% on its overnight ratings.
Home and Away was the #2 entertainment program with an average of 984,000 viewers for its first two episodes, while its third and final episode had 916,000.
The biggest riser in the total TV ratings was The Long Call, which was up 101%.
Overnight TV Ratings, February 10
Primetime News
Seven News 931,000/900,000
Nine News 793,000/759,000
ABC News 614,000
10 News First 291,000 (5:00pm)/ 173,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 158,000 (6:30pm) 121,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 592,000
7.30 447,000
The Project 212,000 (6:30pm)/344,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 133,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 232,000
Today 221,000
News Breakfast 191,000
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics continues to chug along nicely for Seven, with more steady ratings coming in from Beijing. The coverage was hosted by a combination of Joh Griggs, Matt Shirvington, Emma Freedman, Hamish McLachlan and Abbey Gelmi. The events yesterday included women’s snowboarding, men’s figure skating, men’s skeleton, men’s snowboarding, women’s cross country, mixed aerials, women’s speed skating and luge.
Beijing Winter Olympics Day 6:
Day: 276,000 (180,000 metro, 96,000 regional)
Afternoon: 454,000 (294,000 metro, 160,000 regional)
Evening: 745,000 (513,000 metro, 232,000 regional)
Night: 730,000 (514,000 metro, 216,000 regional)
Late: 595,000 (444,000 metro, 151,000 regional)
Seven
Seven has continued to reap the spoils of the Winter Olympics as the broadcaster is once again the #1 primary channel (25.6%) and network (35.4%). Home and Away was the other big contributor with 471,000 tuning in for the soap.
Nine
A Current Affair had 530,000 viewers as the show spoke to Queensland’s chief health officer John Gerrard, about the lagging vaccine booster numbers. RBT then followed with 451,000 before Australia Behind Bars had 479,000.
10
The Project had 200,000 (7:00pm) and 306,000 (6:30pm) as the show discussed how the religious discrimination bill is on hold, and also spoke to Scott Eastwood.
Then Bondi Rescue came on at 7:30pm with 246,000 viewers, followed by Territory Cops at 8:00pm with 210,000 viewers.
ABC
7:30 had 453,000 viewers as Leigh Sales announced that she was stepping down from the program.
Sales told 7.30 viewers: “I feel a strong sense of it being time to pass the baton to the next runner in the race and to take a break. The end of an election cycle feels like a good time to move on to something new at the ABC.
“I’ve always approached this job with one goal and that is to ask frank questions of people in power, without fear or favour, that a fair-minded, reasonable person with some common sense watching at home might like to ask if they were sitting in my position.
“The team at 7.30 is unparalleled in the media and I could not have more admiration or more gratitude for what they all do. It is an incredibly important program, there is no other show that does what 7.30 does night after night. I know the program is going to keep going from strength to strength, as it always has.”
See more: Leigh Sales to step down as 7:30 presenter after 11 years in the role
Foreign Correspondent returned for 2022 with 290,000 viewers. The episode saw Yalda Hakim return to Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban took power.
Q+A then made its return in front of 252,000 viewers. The episode was live from Melbourne and hosted by Virginia Trioli as the panel discussed what made a good leader.
SBS
The top program on SBS was Scenic Coastal Walks with Kate Humble with 144,000 viewers.
