Newcastle TV ratings week 9, 2009

If you were to only look at the most watched programs in the Hunter for last week, you would make the following judgements: NBN and Prime are head to head at 50% on the leader board. Prime is really catching up. As for the reality of that tale, when you look at the ratings figures, this is a different story, why?
Reality! that’s is exactly right. Newcastle loves its reality shows. Apart from again the leader of the week, Underbelly2 (although technically this is based on true events) and Pack To The Rafters (which is set around the reality of today’s family), the 10 most watched programs of last week and nearly every week, has some how to do with what’s happening in our world today… We still like to watch ourselves..

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Newcastle cannot get enough of its new favourite show Underbelly2. Once again taking out the leader board for most watched program in the Hunter. Who can deny its star attraction so far to this witty, on the edge of your seat, suspenseful drama…Its leading ladies.
A year ago to this day Prime was in arms reach and trailing slightly behind the leading station NBN. Fast forward today, NBN has won this battle again by more than 10% of its viewing share!
Were you part of this audience? Check the entire list and see:

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Week 1 for the 2009 Hunter TV Ratings has kicked off with a bang! Literally. NBN has enjoyed a strong start thanks to Underbelly. Having such success with the first series, fans all over Newcastle slumped on the couch again for Monday nights premiere of the second series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.
With all eyes set on our TV box for updates on the devastating Victorian Fires, its not surprising NBN News dominated the most watched programs list for last week. In fact, NBN took out 7 out of 10 most watched programs in Newcastle. See further results:

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Commercial radio was once the loudest local voice in media. Here in Newcastle there was a time when radio was the best medium for the latest news, talk and sport, especially when Australia’s second oldest station, 2HD was at its strongest. You could hear everything broadcast locally 24 hours a day.

No longer.

Recent programming changes on 2HD mean that live and local on what was once known as Newcastle’s home of news, talk and sport barely exists.

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Following Media Hunter’s post earlier this week on the departures of Richard King and Don Mayo from 2HD & NEWFM, The Herald in Newcastle have run a story today on the station’s changes.

Interestingly, station manager Guy Ashford claims that the axing of King’s drive show was to do with ratings and not cost-cutting. If that’s the case, will they axe Talkin’ Sport if it doesn’t perform within a few surveys? Or does that mean the NEWFM breakfast show is under threat due to its poor ratings performance in the last survey of 2008?

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The Newcastle media rumour-mill suggests that Gavin Morris will be joining NBN Newcastle’s nightly news as weather reporter following the departure of Garry Youngberry.

Youngberry filed his last weather report for NBN last Friday before heading north to join Nine Brisbane’s news team.

Gavin Morris is an ex-Newcastle radio announcer who is currently working at the Weather Channel on Foxtel. He has been hosting on ground entertainment for Newcastle Knights home games for several years.

Update: 23 January 2009. It was confirmed today that Gavin Morris will be the new weather presenter on NBN.

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NBN is clearing the table week after week when it comes to the ratings number game. The channel leader cleared the board with a 9.5 win over rival station Prime and SC Ten coming in a furter 10.9 points behind NBN. Even with Prime having top 3 most watched programs – with ‘The Zoo’ taking out the no.1 spot for the first time. NBN claimed 6 of the 10 spots on the most watched programs board, SC Ten not even making the top ten for last week.

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Newcastle must have had all eyes glued to NBN Monday night to watch the number one most watched program of the week, Domestic Blitz. The Domestic Blitz team were back to bring some well-earned joy to the lives of a family that touched the hearts of the nation in a 90-minute special episode of Nine’s hit lifestyle series on Monday at 7.30pm. The leader boards constant winner - Packed to The Rafters was shafted down two spots last week with Domestic Blitz and The Zoo jumping up the ratings as most watched programs. Compared to a 3.1 lead the week before for the ratings winner NBN, this week wiping the board with a 7.4 point lead over rival channel Prime.

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The hottest names on television last week were Bianca Saez and Dawn French. Saez almost gave Channel Nine a ratings victory, and French showed why the ABC should have fought harder to keep Andrew Denton doing his interview program Enough Rope next year.

Saez is a former sufferer from Tourette syndrome, and renovating her home was the theme of a special edition of Domestic Blitz which attracted 1.7 million mainland capital viewers on Monday night. French is the star of The Vicar of Dibley, and her thoughts on life and weight brought 1.2 million to Denton’s program on Monday night.

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The Melbourne Cup was both the most talked about and watched program in Newcastle last week. Swapping the average day to day routine, for glamorous hats and the hopeful punt. Prime took first place on the leader board for having the highest amount of Novacastrians watching in dear hope they would score a small fortune, or for some lucky ones a large win! However unlike Bauer, NBN did take the win by more than a nose, leading the ratings game by 3.1 over Prime and a big 6.9 over TEN.

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