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27Apr09

The Newcastle Ratings, week ending April 25

Back to rating. Our local stations broke for the Easter holidays and now we are back in business. NBN is still embarrassingly smashing its competition, are you surprised?
It seems over our Easter break we got so used to re-runs, that we started switching over to more of what is going on in the world and more importantly, our town. Beating Underbelly for the first time since it started airing all those weeks ago, is the local NBN Sunday News. In fact, if it wasn’t for Primes ‘Australia’s Got Talent’ and ABC’s new program ‘The Gruen Transfer’, NBN filled every other top ten position on the most watched programs for last week. Check out the latest figures to compare who have gone up since last year or last week and who have gone down:

What We Watched:

1 NBN Evening News Sunday NBN 114000

2 Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities NBN 114000

3 NBN Evening News Monday to Friday NBN 96000

4 60 Minutes NBN 95000

5 NBN Evening News Saturday NBN 88000

6 Australia’s Got Talent PRIME 86000

7 Two And A Half Men – Rpt NBN 80000

8 The Gruen Transfer ABC 80000

9 Missing Pieces NBN 77000

10 Domestic Blitz NBN 74000

The Stations Ratings:

         Week 17 2009 Week 17 2008 Prog 2009 Prog 2008
NBN             34.8                       34.0                    33.9               32.1
PRIME        22.2                      24.0                     21.5                25.3
TEN              18.8                      17.5                     19.5                18.8
ABC             17.2                       17.5                     17.9                17.0
SBS               6.5                         7.1                        6.3                  6.8

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