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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Last weeks ratings game tells a tale similar to Primes most popular show, Pack To The Rafters. Prime again a clear leader on the board, takes 5 out of the 10 top most watched shows for last week. NBN coming in with a close 4 spots on the chart, however when it comes to what really matters – the numbers NBN takes out the ratings again for the week that was. What can we say though, a packed house full of relatable dramas and a tear jerker show about reuniting families that will break even the hardest soul, we just can’t get enough of. What’s even more brilliant to see though is that 9 out of the 10 most watched programs in Newcastle are Aussie. Oi Oi Oi. Read the rest of this entry »

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In last Tuesday’s episode of Packed To The Rafters, the mother (Rebecca Gibney) refused to watch a Channel Seven show, City Homicide. Her opinion was apparently shared by 200,000 mainland capital viewers, who deserted CH on Monday for Nine’s new season of CSI.

Not that CH’s slippage to 1.4 million worried Seven, which still had nine of the ten most watched programs of the week (topped by Rafters and Find My Family ). Its major disappointment would have been the 1.2 million for the US version of Kath and Kim, which drew 700,000 less than our own hotties last year. On its second Sunday, KKUSA dropped to 729,000, which is an invitation to the axeman. And that was with Kevin Rudd as a lead-in, drawing 1.1 million to a Seven news special.

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