[CJM]

Five Capital City Figures (6pm-midnight)

ABC1/2/3 - 22.1%
Seven/7TWO - 29.8%
Nine/GO! - 19.5%
Ten/ONE - 21.4%
SBS One/Two - 7.2%

Week Progressive (Sun-Sat)

ABC1/2/3 - 15.2%
Seven/7TWO - 31.2%
Nine/GO! - 27.3%
Ten/ONE - 20.8%
SBS One/Two - 5.5%

Multi Channel Splits (Week Progressive)

ABC1 - 19.5% (13.3%)
ABC2 - 2.2% (1.5%)
ABC3 - 0.4% (0.4%)
Seven - 27.9% (28.9%)
7TWO - 1.9% (2.4%)
Nine - 15.4% (23.8%)
GO! - 4.2% (3.4%)
Ten - 20.4% (20.0%)
ONE - 1.0% (0.8%)
SBS One - 6.7% (5.1%)
SBS Two - 0.5% (0.4%)

Regional Figures (6pm-midnight)

ABC -
Seven -
Nine -
Ten -
SBS -

Program Rankings - Overnight Figures
Rank Description Network Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth
1 Seven News – Sat Seven 1,157,000 347,000 276,000 242,000 113,000 178,000
2 ABC News-Sa ABC1 1,057,000 299,000 359,000 190,000 84,000 124,000
3 M-Cool Runnings Seven 930,000 261,000 236,000 220,000 94,000 119,000
4 A Touch Of Frost Seven 879,000 252,000 269,000 158,000 97,000 102,000
5 Nine News Saturday Nine 801,000 225,000 298,000 137,000 78,000 63,000
6 Bill ABC1 762,000 195,000 218,000 146,000 93,000 110,000
7 Bed Of Roses Rpt ABC1 675,000 171,000 202,000 167,000 58,000 78,000
8 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 652,000 166,000 189,000 165,000 63,000 69,000
9 Taggart ABC1 649,000 170,000 182,000 114,000 90,000 93,000
10 Star Wars: Episode Ii – Attack Of The Clones Rpt Ten 649,000 174,000 173,000 139,000 58,000 105,000
11 Gardening Australia ABC1 556,000 194,000 104,000 130,000 56,000 73,000
12 Star Wars: Episode Iii – Revenge Of The Sith Rpt Ten 556,000 159,000 168,000 103,000 50,000 75,000
13 Ten News At Five Sat Ten 530,000 149,000 131,000 96,000 50,000 103,000
14 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 455,000 117,000 135,000 64,000 68,000 70,000
15 Take The Lead -Rpt Nine 437,000 145,000 117,000 98,000 34,000 43,000
16 Sports Tonight Sat Ten 407,000 130,000 108,000 57,000 48,000 63,000
17 Australia’s Greatest Athlete Seven 394,000 137,000 107,000 86,000 42,000 22,000
18 Wipeout Nine 391,000 170,000 *** 90,000 71,000 60,000
19 Dalziel And Pascoe Rpt ABC1 373,000 114,000 116,000 42,000 52,000 47,000
20 Suburban Secrets Seven 369,000 87,000 109,000 71,000 49,000 54,000
21 Megastructures – German Autobahn Seven 353,000 136,000 86,000 71,000 34,000 26,000
22 Monster Moves SBS ONE 333,000 82,000 99,000 66,000 44,000 43,000
23 The Simpsons Sat Ten 309,000 79,000 94,000 47,000 34,000 54,000
24 Weekend Today – Saturday Nine 285,000 84,000 66,000 70,000 20,000 45,000
25 Iron Chef SBS ONE 276,000 73,000 80,000 54,000 31,000 38,000
26 Vertical Limit Nine 262,000 93,000 74,000 45,000 26,000 24,000
27 Destination: Fifa World Cup Rpt SBS ONE 261,000 81,000 58,000 49,000 31,000 41,000
28 M-Like Mike Seven 260,000 81,000 50,000 60,000 27,000 42,000
29 Antiques Roadshow Nine 246,000 142,000 *** 73,000 *** 31,000
30 Rockwiz Rpt SBS ONE 235,000 50,000 87,000 41,000 20,000 38,000
Real Crime Seven 224,000 52,000 71,000 34,000 33,000 34,000
Saturday Disney Seven 191,000 63,000 49,000 44,000 9,000 26,000
Flickerfest (Shorts) ABC1 162,000 52,000 49,000 27,000 11,000 23,000
Video Hits Sat Ten 151,000 35,000 58,000 27,000 14,000 17,000
Get Smart Go! 133,000 42,000 41,000 16,000 20,000 14,000
Seinfeld Go! 133,000 41,000 36,000 26,000 13,000 17,000
Michael Palin’s New Europe 7TWO 125,000 33,000 50,000 16,000 13,000 13,000
Arthur ABC2 121,000 46,000 37,000 16,000 18,000 5,000
The King SBS ONE 120,000 34,000 28,000 26,000 13,000 19,000
Hogan’s Heroes Go! 116,000 31,000 38,000 20,000 16,000 12,000
Little Princess ABC2 109,000 42,000 29,000 6,000 20,000 11,000

Program Rankings - Consolidated Figures
Rank Description Network Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth

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All data excludes subscription and regional television ratings unless otherwise stated. "Overnight" figures include "Live" (Programs broadcast during the 2am-2am broadcast day and "As Live" (Programs recorded and then watched within the same broadcast day). "Consolidated" figures include Live, As Live and "Time Shift" (Programs recorded and then watched within seven days of the initial broadcast) Ratings for Media Spy are sourced from various companies and organisations, including OzTam, RegionalTAM, Mediaweek, The Sun Herald 'Who We Are', TV Tonight and the various networks.

[Lepatron]

What a shocking night for Nine. Without the GO! share that would have to be one of their worst shares for a long, long time.

[CJM]

Amazing that Ten by itself beat Nine + Go!, and ABC1 by itself equaled Nine + Go!. Terrible night for Nine.

[Rus92]

Farout if I were Ten I'd be less than impressed with One, sure its a good long term project, but look at that, because of ABC2's good performance it helped the ABC pick up from third to second and One's measly one percent didn't get Ten anywhere

This post has been edited by Rus92: 07 February 2010 - 10:35 AM

[Lepatron]

ONE has to go - it's a dismal failure.

[jono24]

CJM, on 07 February 2010 - 10:29 AM, said:

Amazing that Ten by itself beat Nine + Go!, and ABC1 by itself equaled Nine + Go!. Terrible night for Nine.

Yes, and Nine News in particular, down 150K from last Saturday and almost below the 800K mark, terrible.

[tamago_otoko]

This just shows, you can play a good movie and it will rate. Cool Runnings may have been on 100 times already, but it still draws viewers

[jono24]

Lepatron, on 07 February 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

ONE has to go - it's a dismal failure.

Indeed it is, Ten could do a lot better with an alternative.

[cpandilo]

Lepatron, on 07 February 2010 - 11:36 AM, said:

ONE has to go - it's a dismal failure.

What makes you say that or are you solely basing that 'dismal failure' tag on its nightly ratings share?

jono24, on 07 February 2010 - 11:39 AM, said:

Indeed it is, Ten could do a lot better with an alternative.

Ten are due to launch a new SD channel late this year.

[Ruddeger]

Lepatron, on 07 February 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

ONE has to go - it's a dismal failure.

Of course ONE is going to struggle to rate at the moment,most of the sport they show live hasn't started.In the next few weeks they'll get their live sports like AFL,Moto GP,F1,Nascar,IPL.....etc back on so ratings should improve.

[Rus92]

cpandilo, on 07 February 2010 - 10:44 AM, said:

What makes you say that or are you solely basing that 'dismal failure' tag on its nightly ratings share?


Ten are due to launch a new SD channel late this year.

I think they are soley basing it on its nightly shares, when its pretty much the only digital channel that can't significantly lift its main channel conterpart's shares

[cpandilo]

Rus92, on 07 February 2010 - 11:56 AM, said:

I think they are soley basing it on its nightly shares, when its pretty much the only digital channel that can't significantly lift its main channel conterpart's shares

Is that a disadvantage? Sure! However it is not the only variable of measuring ONE's success.

This post has been edited by cpandilo: 07 February 2010 - 11:02 AM

[chuck100]

CJM, on 07 February 2010 - 09:34 AM, said:

Weekend Today – Saturday Nine 285,000 84,000 66,000 70,000 20,000 45,000
Saturday Disney Seven 191,000 63,000 49,000 44,000 9,000 26,000

7 made the right call in launching Saturday Sunrise.

[NewsWeary]

Lepatron, on 07 February 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

ONE has to go - it's a dismal failure.

ONE will pay dividends in years to come. Ten was very shrewd to grab a LIVE event genre to build a channel around. With less people watching LIVE free to air television TEN will be able to charge advertisers a premium rate to expose their products to a captive audience watching LIVE programming. The Australian Open debacle demonstrates that people are reluctant to watch their sport on delay. There is huge demand for LIVE sport coverage in this country. The channel needs time to establish itself and acquire rights to sport people want to watch.

This post has been edited by NewsWeary: 07 February 2010 - 11:09 AM

[Lepatron]

Ruddeger, on 07 February 2010 - 11:54 AM, said:

Of course ONE is going to struggle to rate at the moment,most of the sport they show live hasn't started.In the next few weeks they'll get their live sports like AFL,Moto GP,F1,Nascar,IPL.....etc back on so ratings should improve.

They simulcast all AFL games on Ten and ONE, so why do they need a dedicated channel? All the AFL ratings are attributed to Ten anyway

[TelevisionAU]

Lepatron, on 07 February 2010 - 12:18 PM, said:

They simulcast all AFL games on Ten and ONE, so why do they need a dedicated channel? All the AFL ratings are attributed to Ten anyway

over time there could be other major sports bought up by Ten/One, not just AFL, and once 2013 comes around, there will be no need to simulcast between Ten and One. So for some short term inconvenience now they could get dividends later in the long term.

[bettestreep2008]

Can't believe how bad Nine performed last night! Thank goodness they have GO! to make it look a little more respectable.

[CJM]

bettestreep2008, on 07 February 2010 - 11:59 AM, said:

Can't believe how bad Nine performed last night! Thank goodness they have GO! to make it look a little more respectable.

Unfortunately, advertisers don't look at the combination of both channels, they are looking at how the main channel is going. While it's obvious that Go! is the highest rated digital channel, the big question is...is it taking away from the main channel? When the shares for Nine & Go! are added together they make a respectable share, but if you look at Nine alone the news isn't as good. The high shares for Go! will only be worth it if the Nine Network can sell advertising time to make up for the obvious losses for their main channel. Same goes for all networks and their digital channels. If a network can manage to maintain the shares they were getting last year for their main channel and their digital channel is giving them extra viewers, then that's a great result for them. The idea is to get the extra channel to take audience away from other networks...not your own.

[tv guy2]

CJM, on 07 February 2010 - 01:14 PM, said:

Unfortunately, advertisers don't look at the combination of both channels, they are looking at how the main channel is going.

How do you know? Source?

[seanie]

CJM, on 07 February 2010 - 07:34 AM, said:

1 Seven News – Sat Seven 1,157,000 347,000 276,000 242,000 113,000 178,000
5 Nine News Saturday Nine 801,000 225,000 298,000 137,000 78,000 63,000

Big defeat for Nine News in Sydney. So much for the argument that viewers were turning off Mark Ferguson.