Football Bonanza for NBN

12Oct09

The Newcastle TV Ratings, week ending October 10

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

Huge numbers this week for the Newcastle ratings. No surprise why, as the footy finals were on.

The NBN Grand Final coverage pulled in an outstanding 176,000 viewers, just for the one game. Mind you the Grand Final Presentation clocked up a large 122,000 viewers and even the Grand Final Entertainment for the night, “entertained” 109,000 people.

The top non-football show was Hey Hey’s controversial episode pulling in around 98,000. Then standard weekly shows and numbers follow through with the rest.

NBN averaged 36.2% for first place; Prime came up short with 21.0% for second place, ABC once again beat SC TEN with an average 19.9%. Where were you this week SC TEN only managing to accumulate 16.5% viewing audience?

See full results.

Most Watched Programs:

1 Rugby League Grand Final NBN 176000

2 Rugby League Grand Final Presentation NBN 122000

3 Rugby League Grand Final Entertainment NBN 109000

4 Hey Hey Reunion Ep 2 NBN 98000

5 NBN Evening News Monday to Friday NBN 91000

6 NBN Evening News Saturday NBN 90000

7 Packed To The Rafters PRIME 89000

8 A Current Affair NBN 85000

9 RSPCA Animal Rescue PRIME 75000

10 Midsomer Murders ABC 74000

Stations Ratings:

Week 41 2009 Week 41 2008  Prog 2009  Prog 2008
NBN             36.2               30.3                 33.0             33.2
PRIME          21.0               27.4                 20.2             24.4
TEN             16.5               18.4                 20.4              18.6
ABC             19.9               17.9                 18.2              17.1
SBS             6.0                 6.3                   6.9                6.4

Popularity: 1%

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