Total TV ratings
Total TV data is for Week 13 starting March 20, 2022.
Two of the four Married at First Sight episodes made it over 2m with the other two both over 1.9m. The episodes do big on-demand numbers with over 20% watching episodes on BVOD. The share watching the episode on BVOD on Wednesday night was 27%.
There were 15 programs with a Total TV audience over 1m including A Current Affair on 1,047,000 and 60 Minutes on 1,109,000.
Seven’s best after its 6pm news was Home and Away 1,209,000 and then Dancing with the Stars: All Stars on 954,000.
10’s best was Australian Survivor (Monday) with 941,000 and Gogglebox on 936,000.
Overnight ratings Week 15
Cracking TV ratings for another season of Married at First Sight with the finale on 1,212,000 and the Final Dinner Party on 1,143,000. Nine’s primary share was over 31% for two successive nights with its Sunday share of 31.8% the best for anybody since survey started in Week 7.
Nine’s network share of 31.1% was its third-highest of the nine weeks of survey.
Seven’s network share of 28.0% was its fourth-lowest of the weeks of survey so far in 2022.
10 has posted its highest network share of the survey year with 16.9% ahead of its previous best of 16.7% in Week 11.
Monday-Friday News
Seven 943,000/890,000
Nine 849,000/840,000
ABC 618,000
10 298,000 (5pm)
SBS 167,000 (6.30pm)
Monday-Friday Breakfast
Sunrise (Seven) 262,000
Today (Nine) 224,000
New this week: Underbelly – Vanishing Act
Viewers gave networks the message this week that there is still an appetite for Australian drama with big crowds of close to 700,000 for each episode of this two-part TV event. There is still life in the Underbelly franchise and the new Underbelly team that worked on the Screentime project should be in discussions with Nine about what they could deliver next.
Seven: Network 28.0% (30.3%), Primary 19.0% (21.4%), 7TWO/7mate 3.6%
In a week of major franchises wrapping up their 2022 seasons, Seven viewers said goodbye to Dancing with the Stars: All Stars with a final audience of 567,000 watching Grant Denyer being anointed as winner.
At the end of the first quarter of the 2022 television ratings survey year, Seven has noted it has the highest share of television viewers nationally with a 40% commercial network share, up 2.5 share points on the first quarter of the 2021 survey year.
Seven West Media managing director and chief executive officer, James Warburton, said: “Seven is the undisputed national leader in total television and we are delighted to have grown our audiences for our advertisers in what, in recent years, has been our toughest quarter.
“We are working constructively with the industry to report total television audience with daily VOZ data, which we hope will be in market soon,” Warburton said.
Seven West Media Chief Revenue Officer, Kurt Burnette, added: “Our promise to partners was to provide a fast start to 2022 and we have delivered. Seven is the only network to grow share in key demos, including 25 to 54s and 16 to 39s. We are delivering better value, integration and audience uplift nationally across total TV, with more ad innovation and first party data for addressability than ever before.”
Nine: Network 31.1% (30.0%), Primary 23.4% (22.3%), GO! 2.5%
The finale episode of Married at First Sight was the highest rating non-sport program of the year. As well as the two episodes of Married at First Sight (see above) that finished the season, Travel Guides made the top 10 for the week with 720,000.
Underbelly: Vanishing Act (see above also) episodes ranked at #11 and #12 for the week. Underbelly: Vanishing Act became the highest rating new Australian drama launch since SeaChange in 2019 (metro).
10: Network 16.9% (15.4%), Primary 10.6% (9.3%), 10 Bold/10 Peach 2.8%
The series final of Australian Survivor delivered a metro audience of 631,000 ranking the episode #15 for the week. The penultimate episode on Sunday was 465,000.
Just missing a top 20 spot was Gogglebox with 532,000.
The M-F average for The Project 7pm edged higher from 325,000 to 348,000.
Also growing was First Dates Australia, up 10% week-on-week to 340,000.
ABC: Network 15.6% (15.9%), Primary 11.1% (10.7%), ABC News 2.2% (2.9%)
Hard Quiz was the best non-news program with 568,000, a big jump week-on-week when the previous episode did 422,000 in the overnights up against the Shane Warne Memorial.
7.30 and Mad as Hell were both just over half a million, something neither managed last week.
SBS: Network 8.3% (8.4%), Primary 4.5% (4.7%), Viceland 1.4% (1.3%)
The third episode of Every Family Has a Secret was again the channel’s #1 and it was also the third successive time it cracked 200,000 viewers.
Numbers in brackets are previous week share. Source: OzTAM. Metro overnight ratings unless otherwise stated.
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