Weekend TV ratings Friday August 6, 2021

Aussies star on track, Giants upset Cats, Souths hammer Eels

TV ratings: Seven

The broadcaster had another Friday of TV ratings riches with Olympic Games Day 14 on Seven, 7TWO and 7plus and then AFL for viewers on 7mate.

Finding a Gold medal proved difficult for Australian competitors, yet we were well represented in finals across the day, picking up silver in beach volleyball and bronze in the javelin.

7mate was the #1 multichannel with 10.5% with 7TWO next best on 3.7%.

Seven News attracted the biggest crowds with viewers again feeding on Covid-19 updates and Olympic reports. The audience for both half hours after 6pm were over 1.2m.

Seven’s Late Night audience watching the javelin competition had the next biggest audience with 1.19m, followed by Evening on 1.0m and Night on 1.14m.

The Tokyo 2020 Afternoon audiences were on 759,000 for the beach volleyball and then 639,000 for Late Afternoon.

Friday Night Football pushed into the top 20 with 393,000 watching GSW Giants upset one of the premiership favourites Geelong.

Nine

Nine News was just under 1m at 6pm and then the audience slipped to 897,000 after 6.30pm.

A Current Affair was on 636,000.

The Friday Night NRL clash featured South Sydney too strong for Parramatta with 299,000 watching.

10

The broadcaster had two entries in the top 20 – 10 News First at 5pm with 399,000 and then after 7pm The Project was on 347,000.

The Living Room screened a repeat again and had 246,000 watching.

ABC

ABC News was on 633,000 at 7pm.

Movin’ to the Country was in Queensland, starting on the Sunshine Coast and then travelling further north. The audience was 352,000 after 368,000 a week ago.

Dream Gardens was on 315,000 after 346,000 a week ago.

Midsomer Murders saw the channel’s numbers climb higher with 439,000 watching.

SBS

The primary channel’s high point was SBS World News at 6.30pm on 145,000.

Next best later in the night was The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show with 84,000.

Friday TV ratings metro shares primary and network

 

ABC 8.9% (12.6%)
Seven 37.3% (52.6%)
Nine 13.3% (18.5%)
10 5.6% (11.8%)
SBS 1.8% (4.6%)

See also: Weekend TV ratings Friday July 30, 2021

Friday TV ratings Metro top 20 all people

 

1SEVEN NEWSChannel 71,282,000
2SEVEN NEWS AT 6.30Channel 71,227,000
3TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – LATE NIGHTChannel 71,190,000
4TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – NIGHTChannel 71,146,000
5TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – EVENINGChannel 71,004,000
6NINE NEWSChannel 9998,000
7NINE NEWS 6:30Channel 9897,000
8TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – AFTERNOONChannel 7759,000
9THE CHASE AUSTRALIAChannel 7666,000
10TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – LATE AFTERNOONChannel 7639,000
11A CURRENT AFFAIRChannel 9636,000
12ABC NEWSABC TV633,000
13TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: DAY 14 – MORNINGChannel 7506,000
14HOT SEATChannel 9477,000
15MIDSOMER MURDERSABC TV439,000
1610 NEWS FIRSTChannel 10399,000
17SEVEN’S AFL: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL7mate393,000
18NINE’S AFTERNOON NEWSChannel 9359,000
19MOVIN’ TO THE COUNTRYABC TV352,000
20THE PROJECT 7PMChannel 10347,000

 

Friday TV Sports FTA and STV

TV ratings

NRL

#NRLEelsSouths
Nine/Gem Metro 462,000 (Metro 299,000 Regional 163,000)
Fox League 196,000

#NRLRaidersDragons
Fox League 196,000

AFL

#AFLCatsGiants
Seven/7mate 504,000 (Metro 393,000 Regional 111,000)
Fox Footy 141,000

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