Overnight TV ratings Week 14
Just three episodes of Married at First Sight last week as we head into the final week of Q1 with a two-week TV ratings break around the corner.
Those three MAFS episodes were enough to give Nine another all people primary channel TV ratings win. However, the margin was the smallest between Nine and Seven since Seven won the first two weeks of survey 2022 off the back of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Seven won the network week, just 0.3 of a point ahead of Nine.
Nine ranked #1 on the first three nights of the week with MAFS before Seven took control with primary channel coverage of the Shane Warne Memorial and then another three nights of primetime AFL.
10’s best primary channel performances were Tuesday (11.8%) and Thursday (11.7%) with a network share peak of 17.9% on Thursday.
Total TV ratings
Total TV data is for the week starting March 13, 2022.
The audience continues to say “I do” to Married at First Sight with three of the four episodes that week over 2m while a fourth was on-so-close on 1,960,000.
Seven News continues to that network’s star performer with weeknights at 6pm just a fraction under 1.5m. Home and Away was the nation’s #1 drama by a long way with a Total TV audience of 1,231,000. The audience watching on BVOD was 12%.
Also performing well for Seven was the start of the AFL season with a Bulldogs v Demons clash drawing a national Total TV audience of 1,015,000 which was all live viewing.
10 had two programs over 900,000 with Gogglebox Australia on 962,000 and Australian Survivor on 935,000.
Week 14 Overnight TV ratings
Monday-Friday News primetime
Seven 922,000/887,000
Nine 826,000/812,000
ABC 598,000
10 291,000 (5pm)
SBS 163,000 (6.30pm)
Monday-Friday Breakfast
Sunrise (Seven) 244,000
Today (Nine) 207,000
Shane Warne bows to the crowd at the end of day three of the fifth Ashes Test Match between Australia and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 4, 2007 in Sydney. (Photo by Mark Nolan/Getty Images)
New this week: The midweek Shane Warne Memorial Service was the biggest programming change. Seven was the only broadcaster to offer it on the primary channel and it got the biggest audience with 826,000 which pushed it into the top 10 for the week.
Nine screened the service on Gem in some markets with 403,000 watching.
The Memorial was also screened on 10 Bold (165,000) and ABC News (164,000).
Seven: Network 30.3% (29.3%), Primary 21.4% (19.6%), 7TWO 3.8%
The channel and the network had the best shares since the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The end of this 2022 season of SAS Australia had two episodes just over 300,000 before a special SAS Australia Reunion did 276,000.
The penultimate night of Dancing with the Stars: All Stars was on 501,000.
Home and Away did 453,000 after 456,000 last week.
Nine: Network 30.0% (30.3%), Primary 22.3% (22.6%), Gem 2.5% (2.3%)
The Sunday episode of Married at First Sight was over 1.1m with the other two very close to 1m.
A Current Affair was on 640,000 after 659,000 in Week 13.
60 Minutes was on 521,000, down from 600,000 week-on-week.
The Hundred with Andy Lee again managed to draw just under 500,000.
10: Network 15.4% (16.0%), Primary 9.3% (9.9%), 10 Bold 2.9% (2.9%)
Gogglebox Australia pushed higher to 502,000 from 434,000 the week prior when it screened on Wednesday night. That was enough for a top 20 finish for the week.
Two episodes of Australian Survivor did close to 450,000 with The Dog House not far behind on 436,000.
The Project 7pm was on 325,000 for a third consecutive week.
First Dates Australia was also over the 300,000 mark with 314,000.
ABC: Network 15.9% (15.9%), Primary 10.7% (11.0%), ABC News 2.9% (2.3%)
Australian Story was the next best performer after the News with 524,000 watching on Monday after 455,000 the week prior.
7.30 dipped week-on-week from 491,000 to 453,000 during Budget week.
There is then a long list of programs between 400,000 and 450,000 – Father Brown (447,000), Four Corners (446,000), Media Watch (431,000), Hard Quiz (422,000), Mad as Hell (417,000) and the Budget Speech (407,000).
SBS: Network 8.4% (8.5%), Primary 4.7% (4.7%), Viceland 1.3% (1.2%)
Every Family Has a Secret held top spot for the channel. After debuting in Week 13 with 214,000, the second episode climbed to 223,000.
Bit of a gap to the next best with Great British Railway Journeys on 166,000.
Numbers in brackets are previous week share.
Source: OzTAM. Metro overnight ratings unless otherwise stated.
See also: TV ratings: Who won Week 13, 2022