Throng

Ratings Wednesday February 3, 2010. Week 6, Day 4

With 13 shows for the night over a million viewers, it would appear that more people are back in front of their TVs as the we return to almost normal programming with the official ratings season starting this Sunday.

Seven won the night over Nine, with Seven News top show for the night, RSPCA Animal Rescue 3rd, TT 4th and Home and Away 5th. Seven’s new factual ICU (Intensive Care Unit) was flogged by Nine’s new season of Customs which was the second most watched show for the night and the most watched show on Nine.

Ten’s Biggest Loser settled around the 737,000 mark while So You Think You Can Dance had a big night averaging over a million viewers, helping Ten to a respectable 20.1% share. Burn Notice was down on its usual figures for last year, but it did start later than usual. Next week, it starts after 10pm.

The return of Spicks and Specks on ABC1 picked up that shows’ usual million while ABC’s news remains 3rd in the 7pm timeslot at 903,000.

GO! remains the digital channel champion for Wednesday nights with 7TWO not far behind. Nest Wednesday will be interesting, with 7TWO premiering the much anticipated final season of Lost.

Network Shares:
1 Seven 30.5%. 2 Nine 28.6%. 3 Ten 21.0%. 4 ABC 15.2%. 5 SBS 4.7%
Channel Shares:
1 7 27.8%. 2 9 25.5%. 3 10 20.1%. 4 ABC1 13.1%
5 SBS ONE 4.3%. 6 GO 3.1%. 7 7TWO 2.7%. 8 ABC2 1.6%
9 ONE 0.9%. 10 ABC3 0.5%. 11 SBS TWO 0.4%

Top shows for the night:
1 Seven News Seven 1,271,000
2 Customs Nine 1,235,000
3 RSPCA Animal Rescue Seven 1,229,000
4 Today Tonight Seven 1,130,000
5 Home And Away Seven 1,110,000
6 Two And A Half Men Nine 1,098,000
7 Nine News Nine 1,085,000
8 A Current Affair Nine 1,045,000
9 Criminal Minds Seven 1,045,000
10 Two And A Half Men (R) Nine 1,043,000
11 Spicks And Specks ABC1 1,035,000
12 ICU Seven 1,016,000
13 So You Think You Can Dance Ten 1,011,000
14 ABC News ABC1 905,000
15 Cold Case Ep 1 Nine 843,000
16 Gangs Of Oz Seven 823,000
17 Ten News At Five Ten 816,000
18 Cold Case Ep 2 Nine 741,000
19 The Biggest Loser Ten 737,000
20 The 7.30 Report ABC1 706,000

Burn Notice Ten 614,000
Neighbours Ten 600,000
The 7PM Project Ten 581,000
Malcolm in the Middle Ten 503,000
Chandon Pictures ABC1 269,000
Inspector Rex SBS ONE 223,000
Rex In Rome SBS ONE 202,000

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, Media Spy, Media Week, and Who We Are. Some Ten programs based on figures provided by Ten.

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