Free to Air TV Ratings For Sunday September 6 2009

Ratings for Sunday September 6, 2009

Channel 10 is almost out of the picture completely last night, landing 4th in all time slots from 7.30 to 10pm. Australian Idol is down further but may pick up more audience in following weeks now that Dancing with the Stars has finished. Also, the one day cricket on SBS is attracting some of the usual viewers away with shows like Midsomer Murders being down on last weeks’ high but still was first for its time slot once Dancing finished.

As expected, the night was won by 7. Thankfully, Dancing with the Stars only finished 10 minutes late, which is the normal period of lateness with all commercial networks on Sunday night – as is indicated by the odd times in the time slot order. GO also represents a significant portion of 9′s overall share for the night with Go’s Sunday night line up being the best rating night for the channel.

Timeslot order.
6.00pm 1 7 News. 2 9 News. 3 10 Don’t Forget the Lyrics
6.30pm 1 7 Dancing with the Stars. 2 9 Domestic Blitz. 3 10 Australian Idol
7.30pm 1 7 Dancing with the Stars. 2 9 60 minutes. 3 ABC1 Stephen Fry
8.40pm 1 7 Dancing with the Stars. 2 ABC1 Midsomer Murders. 3 9 Rescue Special Ops
9.10pm 1 ABC1 Midsomer Murders. 2 9 Rescue Special Ops. 3 7 The Queen
9.40pm 1 ABC1 Midsomer Murders. 2 7 The Queen. 3 9 CSI: Miami
10.00pm 1 7 The Queen. 2 9 CSI: Miami. 3 10 Me, Myself and Irene.

Network Shares:
1 7 30.3%. 2 9 25.6%. 3 ABC 19.2%. 4 10 17.9%. 5 SBS 6.9%
Multi Channel Splits

ABC1: 18.3
ABC2: 0.9
Seven: 30.3
Nine: 22.6
GO!: 3.0
Ten: 17.0
ONE: 0.9
SBS1 6.7
SBS2: 0.2


Top 30 Shows.
1 Seven News – Sun Seven 1,644,000
2 Dancing With The Stars 9 Seven 1,572,000
3 Nine News Sunday Nine 1,296,000
4 60 Minutes Nine 1,200,000
5 Midsomer Murders-Su ABC1 1,176,000
6 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 1,097,000
7 Seven’s AFL: Qualifying Final 1: St KildaVs Collingwood Seven 1,077,000
8 Domestic Blitz Nine 1,070,000
9 Stephen Fry In America ABC1 986,000
10 Rescue Special Ops Nine 910,000
11 Australian Idol Ten 883,000
12 ABCNews-Su ABC1 875,000
13 M-The Queen Seven 839,000
14 Rove Ten 777,000
15 CSI: Miami Nine 708,000
16 The Einstein Factor ABC1 585,000
17 Ten News At Five Sun Ten 538,000
18 CSI: Miami-Rpt Nine 454,000
19 M-GhostDad Seven 405,000
20 Nine’s Sunday Football Nine 404,000 S,B
21 Weekend Sunrise Seven 394,000
22 Postcards Nine 388,000 M,A
23 Me, Myself And Irene Ten 381,000
24 Dont Forget The Lyrics Ten 375,000
25 The Sunday Footy Show Nine 373,000
26 Compass ABC1 339,000
27 One Day Cricket AusVEngG2S1 SBS ONE 311,000
28 Mercurio’s Menu Seven 280,000 S,P
29 AFL Game Day Seven 264,000 M,A,P
30 Weekend Today-Sunday Nine 256,000

And a few others:
Las Vegas Seven 233,000
Wipeout Go! 205,000
The Big Bang Theory-Rpt Go! 165,000
Seinfeld Go! 97,000
The Nanny Go! 91,000
The Flintstones-Rpt Go! 83,000
The Jetsons -Rpt Go! 82,000
Hornblower ABC2 80,000

Raw ratings figures sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spy and are Oztam 5 city metro figures. Timeslot order is some cases will may be based on average figures over a number of time slots. Timeslot order is only offered where there is enough data available to put at least 3 networks in order at the times listed and is not offered for Friday and Saturday nights due to the varying network coverage of AFL and NRL football and the resulting alternate programming in the opposing market. Timeslot times may not reflect exact times that show air due to network lateness. Here, a show starting as late as 9.45 for example will be considered as the 9.30 timeslot, if 9.30 is the time it was advertised to air. Odd time slot times are based on observation and only used when 2 or more networks and up starting a show at the same time such as 9.40pm. Network shares include all extra digital channels for each network. Week so far is the cumulative network share including extra digital channels from Sunday until the day of this report. A figure shown for an individual secondary digital channel such as GO or ONE is an overall percentage share out of total viewers. For example, 9 and GO might be 26.3% together but apart they would be for example 9 24.7% and GO 1.6%. When show not shown in all cities (top 30 list): S = Sydney, B= Brisbane, M = Melbourne, A = Adelaide, P = Perth. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think.

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