• Over 1 million tune in to the Melbourne Cup
• Best of the Rest: Travel Guides, Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, The Traitors
Total TV Ratings, October 25
Lifting by 32%, The Block has topped the night overall. 1,524,000 watched as Omar and Oz managed to get their shipping container pool into the ground, while Ankur and Sharon were told that their pergola wasn’t structurally sound.
Home and Away brought 904,000 to Summer Bay, up 22%. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly followed with 575,000, lifting 10%.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Budget Speech lifted 5%, with 753,000 tuning in to the first Budget of the Albanese government.
The Traitors lifted 33%, with 471,000 watching as traitor Claire was shown the door. The Cheap Seats followed with 477,000, up 17%.
Overnight TV Ratings, November 1
Primetime News
Seven News 876,000/897,000
Nine News 793,000/759,000
ABC News 556,000
10 News First 317,000 (5:00pm)/ 76,000 (6:00pm)
SBS World News 130,000 (6:30pm) 111,000 (7:00pm)
Daily Current Affairs
A Current Affair 568,000
7.30 459,000
The Project 271,000 (6:30pm)/358,000 (7:00pm)
The Drum 129,000
Breakfast TV
Sunrise 223,000
Today 162,000
News Breakfast 164,000
Nine has won the night with a primary share of 17.7% and a network share of 30.7%. The top multichannel was 9Gem with 218,000 tuning into England V New Zealand in the T20 World Cup, resulting in a 7.6% share.
One Nine, A Current Affair had 568,000 viewers as the show took a trip to the Melbourne Cup, and interviewed the daughter of Roxlyn Bowie after her husband John Bowie was found guilty of her murder, 40 years after Roxlyn’s disappearance. A repeat of Travel Guides then took 437,000 on a road trip through Texas and the Deep South of the USA.
Seven’s Home and Away drew a crowd of 455,000. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly then saw dog trainer Graeme Hall work his magic in front of 342,000 viewers.
It was a big day on 10, with The Race That Stops A Nation going ahead despite punters shivering through the coldest race day since 1995.
1,024,000 tuned in to watch as Gold Trip and jockey Mark Zahra took the Melbourne Cup win. Viewers on 10 Play saw the Melbourne Cup race average 152,000 live stream viewers – it was 10 Play’s biggest live stream audience of 2022.
This was down on the 2021 race, which was watched by 1,213,000. The 2020 race was watched by 1,410,000.
However, the broadcast audience of the Melbourne Cup across the day was up 17% in 16 to 39s and 11% in 25 to 54s compared with 2021.
Later in the evening, The Project (271,000 6:30pm / 358,000 7pm) continued the Melbourne Cup celebrations by interviewing Gold Trip trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, before chatting to musician Vera Blue. On The Traitors, the original Traitor was finally sent packing, with 309,000 watching as Marielle was banished. The Cheap Seats then interviewed comedian Michael Hing in front of 338,000.
On the ABC, 7.30 covered the interest rate rise and cybersecurity hacks for 459,000 viewers. Marc Fennell’s TV version of his podcast Stuff The British Stole debuted to 444,000, looking at the history of the Koh i Noor diamond. Magda’s Big National Health Check then uncovered epidemic of chronic disease in Australia for 413,000.
The highest rating show on SBS was Inconceivable: The Secret Business Of Breeding Humans, which drew a crowd of 139,000.