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Ratings Wednesday December 2 2009

It’s Nine’s night again with the network way out in front in shares and winning timeslots from 7.30 onwards. Seems Nine can do quite well when there is little competition from Seven and Ten. Six shows in the top 10 were Nine’s while Seven only had three and ABC1 one. Ten’s top show for the night was the new animation the Cleveland Show. Other than that, the rest of Ten’s night did not hold up too well.

In the 7pm wars, the 7pm Project fell back to 4th in the timeslot, and while a further 165,000 watched it after 11pm, the figures overall were down. How I Met Your Mother and the Daily Video Show are closing in on each other, while ABC News has hits flag well and truly locked in as the top rating 7pm show for now.

Timeslot Order:
7.00 1 ABC1 News. 2 9 Video Show. 3 7 How I Met Your Mother. 4 10 7pm Project
7.30 1 9 2.5 Men. 2 7 Air Crash. 3 ABC1 7.30 Report
8.00 1 9 What’s Good For You. 2 7 Air Crash. 3 10 Futurama
8.30 1 9 Cold Case. 2 7 City Homicide. 3 10 Cleveland Show/Simpsons
9.30 1 9 Cold Case. 2 10 Little Britain USA. 3 7 The Take.
10.00 1 9 Cold Case. 2 7 The Take. 3 10 Little Britain USA

Network Shares:
1 Nine 31.0%. 2 Seven 26.5%. 3 Ten 19.7%. 4 ABC 16.9%. 5 SBS 5.8%
Networks Shares Including Subscription TV:
1 STV 23.6%. 2 Nine 21.8%. 3 Seven 20.1%. 4 Ten 15.8%. 5 ABC 13.0%. 6 SBS 3.2%
Regional Network Shares:
1 NBN/WIN 31.8%. 2 PRIME/7QLD 24.6%. 3 SC10 20.8%. 4 ABC 15.1%. 5 SBS 7.7%

Top 30 Shows:
1 Seven News 7 1,251,000
2 Today Tonight 7 1,150,000
3 Cold Case 9 1,085,000
4 Two and a Half Men 9 1,084,000
5 A Current Affair 9 1,065,000
6 ABC News ABC1 1,057,000
7 What’s Good For You This Summer 9 1,051,000
8 Nine News 9 1,031,000
9 Air Crash Investigations 7 920,000
10 Cold Case Rpt 9.30 9 917,000
11 7.30 Report ABC1 878,000
12 City Homicide Rpt 7 873,000
13 The Cleveland Show 10 821,000
14 Ten News at Five 10 792,000
15 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Daily Edition 9 792,000
16 Futurama 10 755,000
17 How I Met Your Mother 7 753,000
18 The 7pm Project 10 714,000
19 My Family ABC1 697,000
20 Simpsons 7.30pm 10 612,000
21 Neighbours 10 636,000
22 Simpsons 9.00pm 10 612,000
23 Simpsons 6.00pm 10 595,000
24 Deal or no Deal 7 570,000
25 Hot Seat 9 569,000
26 Little Britain USA 9.30pm 10 533,000
27 The Take 7 532,000
28 Little Britain USA 10.00pm 10 498,000
29 True CSI: Cold Blood 9 454,000
30 The Bold and the Beautiful 10 414,000

A few others:
Beautiful People ABC1 403,000
Hungry Beast ABC1 397,000
John Safrans Race Relations ABC1 381,000
Law and Disorder SBS ONE 305,000
Band of Brothers 7 265,000
7pm Late 165,000
Mother and Son 7TWO 122,000
Junkyard Wars ABC2 116,000
Heroes 7TWO 108,000

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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