The Stars Start Dancing The Ratings Routine 1 Nov 2008

National TV ratings: source David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

Channel Seven may be smug about its prospects of winning the year, but it’s the ABC that has the most to celebrate. Over the year so far (excluding the Olympics) it has averaged 17.6 per cent of the prime time city audience — up 5.5 per cent on last year, while Seven’s share (28.4) is actually down 3 per cent on last year (Nine is up marginally with 27.3, Ten is down 4 with 21.2, and SBS is up 1 with 5.6).

The week’s most watched shows, as usual, belonged to Seven: Packed to the Rafters, Find My Family , The Force and The Zoo .

Nine’s top shows were Two and a Half Men on Wednesday and 60 Minutes, while Ten scored with NCIS (1.2m) and Australian Idol (1.2m) and the ABC with Spicks and Specks and Andrew Denton’s interview with Michael Parkinson (both 1.2m). SBS could manage only 435,000 for Top Gear Australia.

On Pay TV, the most watched shows were the cricket in India (264,000 for Fox Sports 2), the Bledisloe Cup (196,000 for Fox Sports 3), Family Guy (193,000 for Fox) and Project Runway (185,000 for Arena)

What Australia watched, week ending November 01
1 DANCING WITH THE STARS 8 Seven 1,384,000
2 SEVEN NEWS - SUN Seven 1,370,000
3 AUSTRALIAN IDOL Ten 1,218,000
4 60 MINUTES Nine 1,181,000
5 20 TO 1 -SUN Nine 1,132,000
6 KATH & KIM (R) Seven 1,101,000
7 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,101,000
8 ROVE Ten 1,048,000
9 ABC NEWS-SUN ABC1 1,018,000
10 THE OUTDOOR ROOM WITH JAMIE DURIE Seven 1,005,000
11 RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP Nine 900,000
12 TREK: SPY ON THE WILDEBEEST ABC1 870,000
13 A TOUCH OF FROST Seven 825,000

Posted under National TV Ratings, Television, Television Shows

Posted by Media Hunter on November 4th, 2008   |

One Response to “The Stars Start Dancing The Ratings Routine 1 Nov 2008”

    What on earth has channel 9 done with The Mentalist now? It’s listed on their website as being on Wednesday at 8.30, but none of the tv guides have it. Instead we have a twoandahalf men marathon, followed by a movie.

    I’m at screaming point with the way Channel nine is so disrespectful of anyone who watches their programs.

    Any time they get a decent program in their hands they move it around like a chess piece, trying to swipe the audience from other stations– and instead they lose their own audience.

    It should be simple: get a good program, put it in the good spot and *leave it there* –the audience will come.

    Instead, they move it around so much that people like me, who still have very bitter memories of “hunt the timeslots for where The Sopranos is this week” will simply not bother with anything on channel 9. If there’s a good program on, we’ll wait for the DVD to come out.

    Comment by anne gilchrist
    November 4th, 2008

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