Newcastle Ratings, week ending August 15

SC TEN has improved by 2.1% in its ratings for 09 compared to last year, but this still was not enough to even come close to 3rd place on the ratings figures this week. Only averaging 17.9%, where as 3rd place receiver ABC is cruising along on 20.3%. Prime, however, was winning last year with a high of 37.4%. This percentage being even higher than current 1st place station NBN for this years figures, with a 31.3% average.

Is it the programs being aired? Glad you asked, as even though SC TEN barely scored in the ratings, 2 of their programs featured in the Top Ten Most Watched Programs.

Confusing? Take a look for yourself…

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National Ratings, week ending August 15
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

Channel Ten managed only 14.6 per cent of the prime time audience on Friday night, easily beaten by the ABC on 20.4 per cent, thanks to George Gently, its new detective series. No wonder the shares for the week (and probably for the rest of the year) ended up thus: Seven 28.0 per cent, Nine 26.3, Ten 21.6, ABC 17.5 and SBS 6.6. We can expect Celebrity MasterChef to be rushed to air within weeks.

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National Ratings, week ending August 08
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

After a strong start, thanks to Meryl Streep and Shaun Micallef, it’s back to business as usual for Channel Ten — or no-business-as-usual, to be precise — now that its 7pm drawcard has vanished. The week ended with the prime time audience shares thus: Seven 28.7 per cent, Nine 23.8, Ten 21.5, ABC 17.1, SBS 8.9 (thanks entirely to cricket).

Time for your prediction: how will Australian Idol go this year? Will the removal of Kyle lift its popularity, or had it passed its prime in any case?

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National Ratings, week ending July 25
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

Thursdays and Fridays are always slow nights, so the sudden slump of The 7pm Project (down from 1.28 million on Monday to 656,000 on Friday) should induce only moderate panic at Channel Ten. It’s still doing well with the 16-39s (who go out on Fridays). But if 7pm fails to recover this Monday and Tuesday, Ten will hear Yasmin calling, and the axeman will arrive with his friends The Simpsons. (Unless Ten puts Australian Idol on every weeknight at 7 — could anybody stand that much Sandilands?)

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The Newcastle Ratings, week ending July 18.

Prime seems to have hit an all time low in the stations ratings for last week. Rating only in the 15% bracket, with constant leader NBN up around the 30′s!
NBN had a good viewing week consisting of Origin and the Evening News, bringing its ratings up quite high. SC Ten is thriving well off its number one program ‘MasterChef’. Prime’s ‘Pack To The Rafters’, weekly makes the top watched programs, but doesn’t seem to be doing enough to push up the channel’s overall ratings.

Read on for the figures..

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National Ratings, week ending July 18
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald Blogs

The Grey’s Anatomy finale pulled an extra 200,000 viewers to GA, and helped Channel Seven push Channel Nine to third place in audience share.

Then on Friday, a non-competitive episode of MasterChef helped Ten to counteract any footy advantage enjoyed by Seven and Nine (and if you’re someone who prefers kicking to cooking, every bit of biffo for Friday and Saturday, no matter how esoteric, is presented in the charts below).

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Source: Mumbrella

Channel Nine’s long-anticipated digital spin-off channel GO! will launch on Freeview next month, the network has announced.  Nine CEO David Gyngell said GO! – which will be available on Freeview – will focus on the 14 to 39-year-old audience.

Programs on the GO! showreel, which come primarily from Nine’s warner deal, include:

• Survivor
• The Bachelor
• The Hills
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Dog the Bounty Hunter
• Gossip Girl
• CSI
• Seinfeld
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Wipeout
• Big Bang Theory
• Moonlight
• Neighbours At War
• Bad Lads Army
• The Wire
• Entertainment Tonight
• Weeds
• Just Shoot me
• Little Britain
• Aliens In America
• Eleventh Hour
• Privileged
• Fringe

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The Newcastle Ratings, week ending  04 July 2009.

Packed To The Rafters that is.

Prime is likely thanking its lucky stars that one of its best rating shows is back on the air to help increase its numbers. Rewind to last week and Prime was struggling with an average 16. 7 viewing percentage, this week Rafters (with a little help from the biggest ever lotteries draw) has helped boost its numbers back up to 20.8. SC Ten still sitting comfortably and enjoying second position, with 3 of its programs in the Top Ten programs for last week.

Can Prime catch up?

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The National Ratings
Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

Seven will think twice before devoting a night to rugby union again. As of Saturday morning, the three networks were neck and neck in audience share for the week. As of Sunday morning, Seven finds itself in the rare position of coming third. Here’s how the week worked out: Nine 26.3 per cent of the prime time audience, Ten 25.8 per cent, Seven 25.5, ABC 17.6, SBS 4.8.

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This weeks Newcastle Television ratings have worked out with the 3 main players scoring in the 30s, 20s, & teens respectively. In the 30′s comes 1st place contender NBN. Running in 2nd place in the 20′s is SC Ten and 3rd but not least is Prime with a score in the teens. It seems, as this has occurred now over the last few weeks, that these place gettings are here to stay.

Check out this weeks Top Ten Programs and The Stations Ratings:

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