Throng

Ratings Wednesday November 11 2009

The second last Sunday night of the ratings year saw another huge night for Seven with every show from 6 - 10.30 not only winning their respective timeslots but also being in the top 10 shows overall. Nine’s top shows were the news, 60 Minutes and 20-1 with False Witness - a three hour commitment - failing to impress the average audience at just over half a million.

Over at Ten, their figures prior to 7.30 were almost in the realm of digital multi channel ratings with Electric Dreams under a half a million and the Simpsons at 6 - although third on the time slot - even lower. Australian Idol’s second last show that revealed the final two still did not make the million but was strong in the demos. Rove’s final show ever went out softly at 760,000 - a figure that would have been a lot higher if people knew in advance it was the last show.

The battle of the digital channels last night saw GO with one of its highest shares ever with the last minute programming change Matrix Revolutions helping the channel to a share higher than SBS ONE. 7TWO got close to 4% itself with that channel’s highest night as well. In channel shares modified, both GO and 7TWO landed higher than SBS ONE.

Timeslot order.
6.00 1 7 News. 2 9 News. 3 10 Simpsons
6.30 1 7 Sunday Night. 2 9 20-1. 3 ABC1 Einstein Factor/News
7.30 1 7 Border/Force. 2 9 60 Minutes. 3 10 Aus Idol
8.30 1 7 Bones. 2 10 Aus Idol. 3 ABC1 Miss Austen Regrets
9.30 1 7 Castle. 2 ABC1 Miss Austin Regrets. 3 10 Rove
10.00 1 7 Castle. 2 10 Rove. 3 9 False Witness

Network Shares:
1 Seven 34.8%. 2 Nine 26.5%. 3 Ten 19.9%. 4 ABC 14.3%. 5 SBS 4.6%
Channel Shares:
1 7 31.1%. 2 9 21.2%. 3 10 19.1%. 4 ABC1 13.4%. 5 GO 5.3%.
6 SBS ONE 4.4%. 7 7TWO 3.7%. 8 ABC2 0.9%. 9 ONE 0.8%. 10 SBS TWO 0.2%
Channel Shares Modified:
1 7 28.3%. 2 9 19.3%. 3 10 17.4%. 4 ABC1 12.2%. 5 GO 9.1%.
6 7TWO 6.4%. 7 SBS ONE 4.0%. 8 ABC2 1.5%. 9 ONE 1.4%. 5 SBS TWO 0.3%

Network Shares Including Subscription TV:
1 Nine 25.3%. 2 STV 24.8%. 3 Seven 22.1%. 4 Ten 13.3%. 5 ABC 9.7%. 6 SBS 2.6%

Note that in these figures, they include day time viewing as well. If day time was included yesterday in network and channel shares, Nine would win over Seven given that the golf was on Nine and that GO shows on Sunday afternoon also do quite well. STV would have had a boost with more than the usual numbers of subscribers tuning in checking out the new channels.

Regional Network Shares:
1 Prime/7QLD 32.1%. 2 NBN/WIN 25.7%. 3 SC10 20.8%. 4 ABC 15.4%. 5 SBS 5.9%

Top 30 Shows:
1 The Force - Behind The Line Seven 1,580,000
2 Border Security-Australia's Front Line Seven 1,476,000
3 Bones Seven 1,423,000
4 Sunday Night Seven 1,298,000
5 Seven News - Sun Seven 1,293,000
6 Nine News Sunday Nine 1,217,000
7 60 Minutes Nine 1,078,000
8 Castle Seven 997,000
9 20 To 1 -Sun Nine 930,000
10 Australian Idol Ten 924,000
11 ABCNews-Su ABC1 898,000
12 Rove Ten 760,000
13 Australian Masters Golf Nine 713,000
14 Miss Austen Regrets ABC1 637,000
15 Ten News At Five Sun Ten 623,000
16 The Einstein Factor ABC1 611,000
17 Darwin's Brave New World ABC1 590,000
18 ABC News Up-Date ABC1 568,000
19 False Witness Nine 529,000
20 Sports Tonight Sun Ten 507,000
21 Californication Sun Rpt Ten 503,000
22 Electric Dreams Ten 488,000
23 Postcards Nine 394,000 M,A
24 The Simpsons Sun Ten 392,000
25 Real Crime Seven 380,000
26 Weekend Today-Early Sunday Nine 363,000
27 Weekend Sunrise Seven 348,000
28 Antiques Roadshow Nine 325,000 excl M
29 Compass ABC1 279,000
30 Weekend Today-Sunday Nine 277,000

A few others:
Who Do You Think You Are? SBS ONE 276,000
M-Splash Seven 276,000
Wipeout Go! 229,000
Wide World Of Sports Nine 187,000
Insiders ABC1 185,000  
Dateline SBS ONE 183,000
The Matrix Revolutions Go! 159,000
The Big Bang Theory Go! 150,000
M-Kill Bill: Vol. 2 7TWO 147,000
M-Big 7TWO 143,000
Sunday Arts ABC1 70,000

Ratings figures are OzTam Five capital city Preliminary figures. Five capital cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Raw data sourced from TV Tonight and Media Spy.

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