• MAFS dinner party serves up ratings for Nine
• Olympics push Seven to #1 again
• Four Corners and Media Watch return for ABC
Total TV Ratings, January 31
Despite some criticism of Married at First Sight for its launch audience last week, the total TV ratings have shown the impact of convergent audiences with the show bringing in a final viewership of 1.826m, a 58% increase on its overnight ratings. The episode featured the first two weddings as Selin and Andrew walked down the aisle before Tamara and Brent then tied the knot.
It was a close fight for silver in the 7:30pm timeslot as the launch of The Voice: Generations which had 1.092m (up 24%) narrowly edged out the first episode of Australian Survivor which had 1.093m (up 45%). Although, the return of Home and Away outrated both of them with 1.089m (up 22%).
Overnight TV Ratings, February 7
Primetime News
Seven News 1,088,000/1,070,000
Nine News 896,000/900,000
ABC News 622,000
10 News First 302,000 (5:00pm)/ 198,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 118,000 (6:30pm) 113,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 684,000
7.30 521,000
The Project 221,000 (6:30pm)/498,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 158,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 271,000
Today 211,000
News Breakfast 192,000
Late News
Nine News Late 186,000
ABC Late News 68,000
SBS World News Late 46,000
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics continued to be a ratings winner for Seven as the coverage included women’s biathlon, ski jumping gold, women’s and men’s short track and luge.
Beijing Winter Olympics Day 3:
Day: 291,000 (205,000 metro, 86,000 regional)
Afternoon: 407,000 (275,000 metro, 132,000 regional)
Evening: 781,000 (529,000 metro, 252,000 regional
Night: 813,000 (576,000 metro, 237,000 regional)
Late: 723,000 (525,000 metro, 198,000 regional)
Seven
Thanks to the Olympics steady ratings throughout the day, Seven has once again clinched the #1 spot for both primary channels (24.8%) and networks (33.4%). Seven also had the top multichannel with 7mate bringing in 3.8%.
Despite the Winter Olympics, Home and Away has remained in Seven’s schedule with the Aussie soap bringing in 546,000 viewers to kick off its second week of 2022.
Nine
Married at First Sight (MAFS) has continued its strong performance in 2022 by once again claiming the #1 entertainment spot with 982,000 viewers, while also being #1 in all key demos. The episode featured the first dinner party which saw Selin and Anthony serve up the drama after Selin aired the pairs dirty laundry before Anthony arrived. MAFS was also up significantly on last week’s launch of 869,000.
The pilot episode of La Brea followed with 458,000 tuning in.
10
The Project had 221,000 (6:30pm) and 398,000 (7:00pm) as the show covered the perilous state of Aussie soap Neighbours, and spoke to comedian Adam Hill.
On Australian Survivor, 500,000 tuned in to see Alex Frost call it quits due to the back complaint he had been battling through since the first episode. Despite asking his tribe to vote him out, it became clear they had refused, so he took matters into his own hands and left the game. This was down on last week’s premier of 608,000.
ABC
On Back Road, Heather Ewart took 494,000 viewers to Port Campbell on Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast.
Four Corners then aired Election 22: Australia’s Choice (Part 1) The Incumbent which saw voters weigh up their options in key electorates, assess the key moments of Scott Morrison‘s prime ministership, and share their opinions of his leadership. The episode had 391,000 viewers.
Media Watch then followed with 400,000.
SBS
The top program on SBS was Heritage Rescue with 137,000 viewers.