Glenn Dyer’s TV ratings

A close night and Seven, Nine, Ten and the ABC can all be happy with the results. The first part of the Whitlam doco on ABC1 had 1.410 million/983,000 and 427,000 regional viewers and the Cliffy telemovie that followed hardly lost a viewer with 1.439 million national/927,000 metro/512,000 regional viewers. Both deserved more and were a reminder to the commercial networks of what good good storytelling is all about.

The Cliffy doco rated very well in Melbourne (as to be expected; he was a Victorian potato farmer and the 420,000 who watched there was the sixth-highest audience last night nationally in any market).

Nine’s The Block averaged 2.114 million national/1.476 million metro/638,000 regional viewers which was very solid. Seven’s A Place To Call Home averaged 1.8 million national/1.160 million metro/640,000 regional viewers and beat Nine’s House Husbands (1.450 million national/1.034 million metro/416,000 regional viewers). A Place To Call Home is really putting down roots among Seven’s regional audiences

Elementary on Ten had 1.021 million national/791,000 metro/330,000 regional viewers and the third-last ep of The Biggest Loser averaged 1.252 million national/905,000 metro/347,000 regional viewers (and thankfully is about to depart these screens for 2013). In regional areas, Seven won clearly from Nine (overall and main channels), with the ABC and ABC 1 third and Ten in 4th place, again.

Last week: Seven did surprisingly well, Nine hung in and Ten’s under-50’s audience was up 13% for the week. Seven won All People, Nine won the demos and had more viewers in the key 16 to 54 age group.

Network channel share:

1. Seven (301%)
2. Nine (27.7%)
3. Ten (20.4%)
4. ABC (16.7%)
5. SBS (5.0%)

1. Nine (22.6%)
2. Seven 22.3?%)
3. Ten (14.8%)
4. ABC ONE (14.0%)
5. SBS ONE (4.5%)

1. 7mate (4.3%)
2. 7TWO (3.5%)
3. GO (3.1%)
4. Eleven (3.0%)
5. ONE (2.6%)

Top 10 national programs:

1. Seven News — 2.292 million
2. Nine News — 2.146 million
3. The Block (Nine) — 2.114 million
4. 60 Minutes (Nine) – 2.068 million
5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.972 million
6. A Place To Call Home (Seven) — 1.8 million
7. The Force (Seven) — 1.617 million
8. Highway Patrol (Seven) — 1.499 million
9. House Husbands (Nine) — 1.450 million
10. Cliffy (ABC1) — 1.439 million

Top metro programs:

1. Seven News — 1.560 million
2. The Block (Nine) — 1.476 million
3. Nine News — 1.429 million
4. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.405 million
5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.301 million
6. A Place To Call Home (Seven) — 1.160 million
7. The Force (Seven) — 1.034 million
8. House Husbands (Nine) — 1.034 million

Losers: One of those nights when viewers generally could be satisfied. In the morning chats though, another weak effort by the News Ltd-produced Meet The Press at 10.30am on Ten (just 99,000 nationally) and the 30-minute cut-down repeat at 4.30pm (151,000). Easily beaten by Insiders (373,000 nationally, including News 24). Bolt at 172,000, Inside Business at 219,000, Offsiders a solid 236,000 and the AFR Sunday softie 261,000.Metro news and current affairs:

1. Seven News — 1.560 million
2. Nine News — 1.429 million
3. 60 Minutes (Nine) — 1.405 million
4. A Current Affair (Nine) – 1.031 million
5. Sunday Night (Seven) — 1.301 million
6. 7pm ABC1 News — 845,000
7. Ten News At Five — 572,000
8. World News Australia (SBS ONE) — 188,000

Metro morning TV:

1. Weekend Sunrise (Seven) – 348,000
2. Weekend Today (Nine) – 294,000
3. Insiders (ABC1) — 183,000 + 51,000 on News 24
4. Landline (ABC1) — 186,000
5. Financial Review Sunday (Nine) — 171,000
6. News Breakfast (ABC1) – 56,000 + 34,000 on News 24
7. Offsiders (ABC1) — 167,000
8. Inside Business (ABC1) — 146,000
9. The Bolt Report (Ten) — 132,000
10. Meet The Press (Ten, 4.30 Rpt) — 111,000
11. Meet The Press (Ten, 10.30am) — 77,000

Top five pay TV channels:

1. Fox Footy – 4.7%
2. Fox Sports 1 — 2.9%
3. Fox Sports 3 — 2.8%
4. Fox 8 — 2.6%
5. TV1 – 2.1%

Top five pay TV programs:

1. AFL: Hawthorn v Gold Coast (F0x Footy) – 205,000
2. NRL: Auckland v Newcastle  (Fox Sports 1) – 190,000
3. AFL: North Melbourne v Adelaide  (Fox Sports 3) – 167,000
4. AFL: Fremantle v Melbourne (Fox Footy) – 124,000
5. TED  (Foxtel movie premiere) – 109,000

Tonight: News and current affairs on ABC1. Revenge on Seven. The Voice on Nine, and on Ten The Biggest Loser is coming to an end with the second-last episode. Ten debuts The Americans tonight at 8.30pm — the critics love it; is this the kiss of death as far as viewers are concerned?

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