The Newcastle TV Ratings, week ending October 17

Note: These ratings results are compiled using the combined resources of SC TEN, NBN & Prime’s weekly AGB Nielsen Media Research reports.

This week let’s not even start with NBN and PRIME in their usual 1st (31.7%) and 2nd (25.1%) positions in the Ratings.

Lets look at 3rd and 4th. Who took it out this week? With only the average scores scraping 18% audience share.

ABC ruled the roost to beat SC TEN again this week. It has been an up & down struggle between these two channels of late, but ABC took it out. Mind you they both couldn’t pull the numbers to make the Top Ten Programs watched this week.

Interesting though, ABC, has always kept a consistent average viewing percentage over the years (oldie but a goodie). However, SC TEN this time last year was in the 20% range and continues to roll-a-coaster through the ratings this year.

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Popularity: 6%

Week ending October 17
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

In a rare moment of full and frank disclosure, Channel Nine has released a rundown of how the stations have been attracting audiences this year. In the course of that report, Nine also reveals the name of the new digital station which Seven intends to launch in November. Apparently it will be called TBA. Here is the essence of Nine’s roundup …

Prime time audience shares for the week ending October 17: SBS1 5.1 per cent, SBS2 0.4; ABC2 15.9, ABC1 1.2; Ten 20.2, ONE 1.6; Nine 24.1, GO 2.4; Seven 29.0, TBA 0.0.
Prime time audience shares for the ratings year so far:
SBS 1&2 5.9
ABC 1&2 17.0
Ten & ONE 22.7
Nine & GO 26.6
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Popularity: 5%

The National Ratings
Week ending October 10
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs 

A combination of biffo and Hey Hey It’s Golliwogs (with both reunions repeated on GO – six hours of vintage television) gave Channel Nine a convincing win for the week. The prime time audience shares were: Nine&GO 31.1 per cent, Seven&Still-no-new-station-because-they-keep-farting-around-26.2, Ten&ONE 19.6, ABC1&2 17.8, SBS1&2 5.3.

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Popularity: 5%

The National Ratings
Week ending October 03
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

The curse of sci-fi is happening already — Flash Forward lost 300,000 viewers on its second outing. At this point in the week, the prime time audience shares are: Nine&GO 31.5, Seven&Still-no-new-station-because-they-keep-farting-around 25.5, Ten&ONE 17.7, ABC1&2 18.7, SBS1&2 6.7.

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Popularity: 5%

The National Ratings
Week ending September 26
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

The ABC easily beat Channel Ten last night, which should not happen on an Australian Idol night. Such is the power of the English provincial police that the ABC almost beat Channel Nine. These were the prime time audience shares: Seven 27.0 per cent, Nine 21.2, ABC1 21.1, Ten 18.3, SBS1 4.9, GO 3.2, ONE 2.5, ABC2 1.5, SBS2 0.4.

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Popularity: 1%

The National Ratings
 Week ending September 19
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

These were the prime time audience shares for the week: Nine and GO 28.9 per cent, Seven 27.5 per cent, Ten and ONE 20.7, ABC1&2 17.7, SBS1&2 5.2. This was Pay TV’s account of itself: “Melbourne designer Anthony Capon defeated William Lazootin and Lauren Vieyra in the finale of the designer competition, Project Runway Australia: Finale. The Wednesday night broadcast on Arena achieved a season high 191,000 viewers for the second series of the program. America’s Next Top Model on FOX8 was watched by 157,000 people, NCIS on TV1 was seen by 143,000 subscribers, The Simpsons on Fox 8 133,000 and the Disney Channel premiere of Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie was watched by 119,000 people. Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel had a year-to-date biggest audience of 118,000 people, Property Ladder on Lifestyle was viewed by 101,000 people and Summer Heights High on Comedy Channel was seen by 60,000 people.

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Popularity: 5%

GO, the new digital channel launched  recently by Nine has been building enough momentum to begin overtaking SBS.

Last night (13 Sep 09) saw Go pull in a bigger average audience than SBS’s main channel for the first time since launching on 9 August.

According to preliminary ratings from OzTam, Go’s audience share on Sunday was 3.7 per cent, while SBS1 was on 3.5 per cent. The other new digital channel ONE, a dedicated sports station owned by TEN, finished behind SBS on 2.3 per cent.

Australian TV share for Sunday 13 Sep 09:

• Seven: 27.1%
• Nine: 24%
• ABC1: 21%
• Ten: 17.5%
• GO!: 3.7%
• SBS1: 3.5%
• ONE: 2.3%
• ABC2: 0.8%
• SBS2: 0.3%

Popularity: 5%

Week ending September 12
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

One day can make all the difference. Until Saturday, Channel Seven was winning the week, but Saturday night’s audience boost for Channel Nine (with tiny help from GO) led to these audience shares for the week: Nine and GO 28.1 per cent; Seven 27.9 per cent; Ten and ONE 20.8; ABC1 and ABC2 1.3; SBS and SBSTWO 5.8.

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Popularity: 1%

Week ending September 6
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

The new digital station GO may be attracting less than 2 per cent of the viewing audience most days, but it is helping its parent, Channel Nine, to increase its total share for the week. Here’s the prime time audience breakup among the parent networks (with Nine incorporating GO, Ten incorporating ONE, and ABC incorporating ABC2): Seven 27.8 per cent, Nine 27.3, Ten 21.8, ABC 17.8, SBS 5.2.

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Popularity: 1%

Week ending August 29
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

These were the prime time audience shares at the end of a week without Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation: SBS2 0.4 per cent; ONE 1.1; ABC2 1.4; GO 1.7; SBS 5.6 per cent; ABC 16.7; Ten 20.6; Nine 25.1; Seven 27.4.

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Popularity: 5%