[CJM]

Five Capital City Figures (6pm-midnight)

ABC1/2 - 14.2%
Seven/7TWO - 29.9%
Nine/GO! - 26.7%
Ten/ONE - 25.1%
SBS One/Two - 4.2%

Week Progressive (Sun-Wed)

ABC1/2 - 13.9%
Seven/7TWO - 30.7%
Nine/GO! - 27.3%
Ten/ONE - 22.8%
SBS One/Two - 5.2%

Multi Channel Splits

ABC1 -
ABC2 -
Seven -
7TWO -
Nine -
GO! -
Ten -
ONE -
SBS One -
SBS Two -

Regional Figures (6pm-midnight)

ABC -
Seven -
Nine -
Ten -
SBS -

Top Programs for the Night - All Channels

1 Celebrity Masterchef - Finale Ten 1,295,000 394,000 382,000 213,000 143,000 163,000
2 Seven News Seven 1,283,000 325,000 347,000 239,000 169,000 203,000
3 Border Security-Australia's Front Line-Wed ® Seven 1,277,000 340,000 401,000 241,000 130,000 165,000
4 Today Tonight Seven 1,242,000 320,000 333,000 258,000 149,000 182,000
5 Two And A Half Men -Wed Ep2 Nine 1,216,000 328,000 431,000 211,000 121,000 125,000
6 Home And Away Seven 1,176,000 339,000 345,000 231,000 134,000 128,000
7 Two And A Half Men -Wed Ep1 Nine 1,113,000 285,000 347,000 244,000 113,000 123,000
8 Medical Emergency Seven 1,066,000 261,000 327,000 206,000 128,000 144,000
9 Two And A Half Men-Rpt Nine 1,029,000 233,000 346,000 217,000 104,000 129,000
10 City Homicide-Wed Seven 1,010,000 230,000 341,000 180,000 114,000 145,000
11 A Current Affair Nine 999,000 276,000 332,000 182,000 103,000 107,000
12 Nine News Nine 965,000 261,000 308,000 178,000 114,000 104,000
13 Criminal Minds ® Seven 941,000 251,000 322,000 135,000 98,000 135,000
14 RPA Where Are They Now? Nine 910,000 278,000 291,000 164,000 98,000 78,000
15 ABC News ABC1 883,000 269,000 249,000 149,000 88,000 128,000
16 White Collar Ten 774,000 188,000 231,000 151,000 106,000 98,000
17 Crime Investigation Australia Nine 689,000 194,000 206,000 116,000 77,000 97,000
18 The New Inventors ABC1 675,000 229,000 194,000 129,000 54,000 69,000
19 Ten News At Five Ten 671,000 134,000 208,000 124,000 104,000 102,000
20 Neighbours Ten 659,000 175,000 235,000 87,000 83,000 80,000
21 7.30 Report ABC1 627,000 207,000 176,000 122,000 51,000 70,000
22 Deal Or No Deal Seven 625,000 145,000 190,000 90,000 100,000 100,000
23 The Simpsons Ten 592,000 150,000 233,000 55,000 78,000 75,000
24 The 7pm Project Ten 572,000 138,000 175,000 98,000 73,000 88,000
25 Hot Seat Nine 504,000 122,000 166,000 106,000 54,000 55,000
26 My Name Is Earl Seven 500,000 157,000 153,000 91,000 50,000 48,000
27 Hungry Beast ABC1 446,000 153,000 125,000 93,000 39,000 36,000
28 The Bold And The Beautiful Ten 428,000 99,000 132,000 85,000 57,000 54,000
29 John Safran's Race Relations ABC1 402,000 135,000 131,000 69,000 33,000 33,000
30 M*A*S*H Seven 400,000 126,000 89,000 75,000 55,000 54,000
At The Movies ABC1 350,000 127,000 102,000 58,000 30,000 32,000
Family Guy ® Seven 336,000 82,000 132,000 57,000 32,000 33,000
True CSI: Cold Blood Nine 319,000 79,000 94,000 49,000 40,000 56,000
Lateline ABC1 222,000 90,000 58,000 39,000 18,000 18,000
The Ellen Degeneres Show Nine 190,000 62,000 63,000 32,000 21,000 11,000
Law And Disorder SBS ONE 182,000 50,000 64,000 29,000 11,000 29,000
The Oprah Winfrey Show Ten 180,000 43,000 48,000 40,000 22,000 27,000
The Morning Show Seven 156,000 35,000 48,000 42,000 16,000 15,000
The View Nine 142,000 45,000 46,000 30,000 11,000 10,000
Heroes 7TWO 132,000 47,000 37,000 13,000 19,000 17,000
Days Of Our Lives Nine 126,000 44,000 36,000 24,000 16,000 7,000
300 Go! 124,000 26,000 50,000 13,000 15,000 20,000
DrPhil Ten 111,000 12,000 35,000 25,000 18,000 21,000
Fringe Go! 93,000 21,000 31,000 13,000 13,000 16,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 93,000 24,000 19,000 22,000 18,000 10,000

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All data excludes subscription and regional television ratings unless otherwise stated.
Ratings for Media Spy are sourced from various companies and organisations, including OzTam, RegionalTAM, Mediaweek, Tribal Mind, TV Tonight and the various networks.

This post has been edited by CJM: 26 November 2009 - 08:40 AM

[CJM]

The following figures are for the main commercial channels only

18-49 Commercial Share 6pm - 10.30pm

Seven - 29.9% (399,000)
Nine - 30.4% (406,000)
Ten - 39.7% (531,000)

16-39 Commercial Share 6pm - 10.30pm

Seven - 26.1%
Nine - 29.5%
Ten - 44.4%

25-54 Commercial Share 6pm - 10.30pm

Seven - 30.7%
Nine - 30.5%
Ten - 38.7%

16-54 Commercial Share 6pm-10.30pm

Seven - 30.9%
Nine - 30.4%
Ten - 38.7%

50+ Commercial Share 6pm - 10.30pm

Seven - 46.0%
Nine - 33.5%
Ten - 20.5%

Total People Commercial Share 6pm - 10.30pm

Seven - 36.7% (1,114,000)
Nine - 31.2% (949,000)
Ten - 32.1% (976,000)

The following figures are based on Ten program times (18-49%)

Ten News (5.00pm-6.00pm): 672,000 (43.4%) timeslot win in total people & all key demos, Seven 531,000 (38.1%), Nine 443,000 (18.5%)
Simpsons rpt (6.00pm-6.32pm): 591,000 (31.2%) timeslot win in 16-39, Seven 1,287,000 (39.2%), Nine 976,000 (29.6%)
Neighbours (6.32pm-7.01pm): 661,000 (33.5%) timeslot win in 16-39, Seven 1,236,000 (35.5%), Nine 998,000 (31.0%)
7pm Project (7.01pm-7.30pm): 571,000 (25.6%), Seven 1,168,000 (37.9%), Nine 1,021,000 (36.5%)
Celebrity Masterchef Finale (7.30pm-9.38pm): 1,295,000 (44.4%) timeslot win in total people, 18-49, 16-39, 25-54 & 16-54, Seven 1,100,000 (24.5%), Nine 1,017,000 (31.1%)
White Collar (9.38pm-11.00pm): 768,000 (38.9%) timeslot win in 18-49, 16-39, 25-54 & 16-54, Seven 823,000 (36.5%), Nine 633,000 (24.6%)

[bettestreep2008]

Celeb MC was a cracking show last night and despite the relatively low ratings it got - I am glad it topped the night thanks to Sydney viewers!

Once again REPEATS of Border Security and 2.5 men almost beat it - what is wrong with TV viewers?

Can't blame Seven and Nine for dishing out repeats in the final week of the ratings year. If viewers want to watch this and it rates well - then the networks will keep dishing it out.

And am curious - did Nine come second last night purely because of the 3 episodes of 2.5 men? Without these - surely they would've come third behind Ten?

This post has been edited by Ryan: 26 November 2009 - 09:24 AM
Reason for edit:: Please do not type network names in CAPS - They are not acronyms.

[J Bar]

Respectable ratings for the Celebrity Masterchef finale but I'd say Ten would have been expecting more for this series. Not good that a repeat of Border Security was close to beating it and yet another 2.5 Men, not far behind. White Collar had terrible retention out of those big ratings so you would have to say that it is a flop.

Great ratings for the final My Name Is Earl at 10.30. City Homicide and Criminal Minds struggled even though they both had new epsiodes.

Some terrible ratings for The Simspons/Neighbours/7pm Project and really terrible ratings for Hungry Beast/John Safran.

This post has been edited by J Bar: 26 November 2009 - 08:53 AM

[TelevisionAU]

J Bar, on 26 November 2009 - 09:51 AM, said:

Respectable ratings for the Celebrity Masterchef finale but I'd say Ten would have been expecting more for this series.

True, 1.2m is not great for a series finale but IIRC it's the highest its rated the whole series, and to get timeslot wins in TP and demographics and be #1 show of the night for a show that ran over two hrs is nothing at all to sneeze at. Given some of the ordinary results the series had up until now I think it's finished on a positive result

[kubz]

J Bar, on 26 November 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

... White Collar had terrible retention out of those big ratings so you would have to say that it is a flop ...

Ditto Private Practice following Rafters then

[Splashmo]

Some of that White Collar figure must have included CMC. I don't see how it could run from 9.38-11.00?

[Ryan]

kubz, on 26 November 2009 - 09:23 AM, said:

Ditto Private Practice following Rafters then

Stick to Wednesday's ratings please.

[J Bar]

kubz, on 26 November 2009 - 09:23 AM, said:

Ditto Private Practice following Rafters then

That's exactly what I said yesterday. What's your point?

TelevisionAU, on 26 November 2009 - 08:59 AM, said:

True, 1.2m is not great for a series finale but IIRC it's the highest its rated the whole series, and to get timeslot wins in TP and demographics and be #1 show of the night for a show that ran over two hrs is nothing at all to sneeze at. Given some of the ordinary results the series had up until now I think it's finished on a positive result

I'm surprised Ten didn't split it into three separate programs: Final in the Masterchef Kitchen, The Final Verdict and The Winner Announced.

This post has been edited by J Bar: 26 November 2009 - 09:27 AM

[kubz]

Splashmo, on 26 November 2009 - 09:25 AM, said:

Some of that White Collar figure must have included CMC. I don't see how it could run from 9.38-11.00?

It was scheduled to run for 80 minutes ... so I would say that is about right

[cpandilo]

Splashmo, on 26 November 2009 - 10:25 AM, said:

Some of that White Collar figure must have included CMC. I don't see how it could run from 9.38-11.00?

That timing is correct, that was White Collar's run time last night.

[kubz]

J Bar, on 26 November 2009 - 09:25 AM, said:

That's exactly what I said yesterday. What's your point?

Actually no you didn't say it as clear cut as 'flop'

J Bar, on 25 November 2009 - 08:53 AM, said:

... Terrible retention rate for Private Practice ...

And its not necessarily your comment ... I was referring in general as everyone will jump on the 'flop' bandwagon for White Collar despite it winning its time-slot in all key demographics, the same as what Private Practice did on Tuesday. Let's also not forget Private Practice lost 1 million of its lead in as opposed to White Collar which lost 500,000.

tv guy2, on 25 November 2009 - 01:30 PM, said:

Seven would be pleased with that.

In response to Private Practice winning its slot in key demos and total people.

Sorry mods ... will get back on topic now

This post has been edited by kubz: 26 November 2009 - 09:36 AM

[tv guy2]

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13 Criminal Minds ® Seven 941,000 251,000 322,000 135,000 98,000 135,000

Criminal Minds was new last night, so why does it have ® there?

Overall, the show did a great job increasing 159k from last week.

[turdall]

Great night for 10 a win in all key demographics. It is always going to be hard for 10 to win total viewers with 7PM doing those kinds of figures. It needs to get up to 800-900k. CMC was never as high as its original but 1.3 and a win in all key demographics is nothing to worry over. White Collar did really well it was terrific and this figure: White Collar (9.38pm-11.00pm): 768,000 doesn't include Masterchef this figure, however, : White Collar Ten 774,000 does.

CJM is it possible to get the half an hour breakdowns for CMC?


1.0 of City Homicide finale is not good. Seven would have to be worried about that. Suprised that Border rates so high in repeat seven would have to be thinking about a lifestyle/factual channel for the next channel with those types of figures and that kind of cheapness.

This post has been edited by turdall: 26 November 2009 - 09:40 AM

[cpandilo]

I don't think White Collar flopped. It did as I expected. In fact I was expecting it to get a slightly lower audience. Now if it got around 500,000, then THAT would be a flop.

[tv guy2]

kubz, on 26 November 2009 - 10:35 AM, said:

Let's also not forget Private Practice lost 1 million of its lead in as opposed to White Collar which lost 500,000.

Lets not forget one had over 2million viewers compared to the much lower 1.3million.

It's obvious more people would stick around if there is a loyal 1.3million watching the show before. Whereas, with Rafter's 2million, at least 1/4 of the viewers would probably be non regular tv viewers who only tune in for that show each week.

Overall, you can't spin that Ten would be extremely disappointed with Masterchef last night. I think they would have been expecting at least 2.5million considering.

[turdall]

TvGuy what you are saying is more spin than Kubz. lol you can't say its worse for a show to lose 500k viewers from its lead in than a show that loses 1 million. I'm sorry but it is worse that PP lost over 1 million viewers than WC lost 0.5 viewers. But with that said i thought PP did well last night.

[TelevisionAU]

tv guy2, on 26 November 2009 - 10:46 AM, said:

I think they would have been expecting at least 2.5million considering.

considering what? it was never going to rate as well as the original

[tv guy2]

considering the success of the first series. It should have at least rated much more than 1m.

This post has been edited by tv guy2: 26 November 2009 - 09:55 AM

[kubz]

tv guy2, on 26 November 2009 - 09:46 AM, said:

Lets not forget one had over 2million viewers compared to the much lower 1.3million.

It's obvious more people would stick around if there is a loyal 1.3million watching the show before. Whereas, with Rafter's 2million, at least 1/4 of the viewers would probably be non regular tv viewers who only tune in for that show each week.

Overall, you can't spin that Ten would be extremely disappointed with Masterchef last night. I think they would have been expecting at least 2.5million considering.

That doesn't make sense. Packed to the Rafters has a loyal following of around 1.8 million who tune in week in week out. All saints consitently held 1.2 - 1.3 million out of it week in week out. Thats a loss of 500 - 600,000 viewers. If thats the case Private Practice losing 1 million of its lead in makes it a flop you can't spin that in Sevens favour

I agree that the Celebrity MasterChef numbers were a let down but there is no way TEN would have been expecting 2.5 million for last night considering the figures for the Celebrity series

tv guy2, on 26 November 2009 - 09:55 AM, said:

considering the success of the first series. It should have at least rated much more than 1m.

It did

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1 Celebrity Masterchef - Finale Ten 1,295,000 394,000 382,000 213,000 143,000 163,000

This post has been edited by kubz: 26 November 2009 - 09:58 AM

[tv guy2]

Lets not make this go off topic.

So overall, Seven would be happy with the private practice demos, while Ten would be happy with White Colar demos.

In total viewers though, Private Practice won its timeslot, while White colar lost to Criminal Minds.

[Sportz]

Got a feeling we're going to have to change what we consider to be good ratings figures. The average shows just aren't rating like they used to. You still get stuff like Underbelly, Packed To The Rafters, Masterchef, Hey Hey specials and big sporting events etc which rate highly but as for the average nightly ratings, they all seem to have dropped off quite a bit especially with the introduction of the new channels. For example, I reckon the 1.3 million that celebrity masterchef got last night is probably equivalent to a show getting about 1.5 million in previous years.

This post has been edited by Sportz: 26 November 2009 - 10:08 AM

[CJM]

I have no idea why that posted again. I haven't been near my computer since about 9.30am!

This post has been edited by CJM: 26 November 2009 - 10:45 AM

[Jerome]

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9 Two And A Half Men-Rpt Nine 1,029,000 233,000 346,000 217,000 104,000 129,000
11 A Current Affair Nine 999,000 276,000 332,000 182,000 103,000 107,000
12 Nine News Nine 965,000 261,000 308,000 178,000 114,000 104,000
24 The 7pm Project Ten 572,000 138,000 175,000 98,000 73,000 88,000
25 Hot Seat Nine 504,000 122,000 166,000 106,000 54,000 55,000

a lot of the early evening dailies especially from 9 didn't do very well last night. 7pm very low.

ten would be disaponted with CMC as a series but the finale i think they would be happy with considering it couldn't crack 1.1 just yesterday. white collar did a bit better than i was expecting.

9 didn't do very well, and 7; nothing spectacular but they would be happy that they beat 9 in all demos which is all they'd care about at this time of the year.

[Tracker]

Sportz, on 26 November 2009 - 10:06 AM, said:

Got a feeling we're going to have to change what we consider to be good ratings figures. The average shows just aren't rating like they used to. You still get stuff like Underbelly, Packed To The Rafters, Masterchef, Hey Hey specials and big sporting events etc which rate highly but as for the average nightly ratings, they all seem to have dropped off quite a bit especially with the introduction of the new channels. For example, I reckon the 1.3 million that celebrity masterchef got last night is probably equivalent to a show getting about 1.5 million in previous years.

Sad... but true. Television is losing its competitive advantage of being a mass marketing tool.