• MasterChef tops entertainment in sports heavy night
• Bluey introduces a profoundly deaf character
• SBS’s D.I. Ray rockets up Total TV
Total TV ratings, June 9
Consistently performing for Seven, the first two episodes of Home and Away lifted 29% to bring in a total TV audience average of 777,000 – the late episode rose 32% for a total of 747,000. It’s followed closely by 10’s MasterChef, which drew a crowd of 750,000 watching as the contestants made their interpretation of choc tops, lifting 30%.
Rocketing up the total TV chart was SBS’s British police drama, D.I. Ray, coming in with a total audience of 505,000, the show lifted 162%.
Overnight TV ratings, June 16
Primetime News
Seven News 888,000/842,000
Nine News 758,000/748,000
ABC News 565,000
10 News First 300,000 (5:00pm)/ 196,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 146,000 (6:30pm) 101,000 (7:00pm)
Daily current affairs
A Current Affair 540,000
7.30 426,000
The Project 231,000 (6:30pm)/323,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 176,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 215,000
Today 197,000
News Breakfast 170,000
Seven has kicked its way to victory with the AFL, bringing in a primary share of 22.6% and a network share of 32.4%. Seven also won the multichannels for the night, with 7TWO recording a 4.1% share.
448,000 cheered on as the Richmond Tigers took on the Carlton Blues in the AFL, with Richmond coming out on top by only 15 points on a wet night at the MCG.
On Nine, A Current Affair had 540,000 tune in as the show spoke to the nurses who have walked away from the profession due to burnout and covered calls for tougher juvenile justice after an entire family was killed by an underage drunk, drugged driver. On Thursday night NRL, 269,000 tuned in to see the St George Illawarra Dragons thump the South Sydney Rabbitohs 32-12, in a match that saw the Dragons score all of their points within the first 40 minutes of the game. Outside of NRL heartland, RBT drew a crowd of 135,000.
The Project (231,000 6:30pm / 323,000 7pm) covered the announcement that NSW and Victoria plan to introduce free childcare for four-year-olds, five days a week, and interviewed Fran Drescher about the 90s resurgence and her charity, the Cancer Schmancer Movement. MasterChef began a bidding war, with 473,000 tuning in for an auction that was held as part of the Immunity Pin challenge – with the final immunity pin going to Julie Goodwin.
On the ABC, 7.30 also dove into what the early childhood education announcement from NSW and Vic might mean and gave an update on the Snowy 2.0 scheme announced by Malcolm Turnbull in 2017 for 426,000 viewers. A repeat of Foreign Correspondent took 249,000 down memory lane to revisit some of the show’s best stories, before Q+A was live from Melbourne in front of an audience of 248,000.
At the beginning of the day, Bluey continues to dominate kids’ TV with 415,000 tuning in before school for a new episode that introduced a profoundly deaf character who communicates using Auslan.
On SBS, the highest rating non-news program was House of Maxwell with an audience of 139,000.
