NBN smashes opposition in Origin week

26May08

Newcastle TV ratings week 21, 2008

Novocastrians love their league and when its Origin time they tune in en-masse. Its seems this year is no exception with NBN’s State of Origin 1 coverage being the big ratings winner last week, and so far for the year.

NBN averaged 150,000 viewers for the big game making it the most watched program in the Hunter this year.

The rest of the week was a good one for NBN too, easily accounting for Prime and Southern Cross TEN in the all viewers figures.

Most watched programs:
1    State of Origin Game 1 – Match    NBN    150000
2    State of Origin Game 1 – Post Match    NBN    121000
3    State of Origin Game 1 – Pre Match    NBN    116000
4    NBN Evening News Monday to Friday    NBN    93000
5    Bed of Roses    ABC    89000
6    A Current Affair    NBN    88000
7    NBN Evening News Sunday    NBN    88000
8    Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show    NBN    87000
9    NBN Evening News Saturday    NBN    86000
10    60 Minutes    NBN    85000

Station ratings:
            Week 21 2008    Week 21 2007    Prog 2008    Prog 2007
NBN                36.4                    37.8            32.8            34.8
PRIME             21.7                     22.9            24.4            26.0
TEN                17.9                     18.5           19.2            17.0
ABC                17.9                     14.8            17.0            16.4
SBS                  6.1                        6.0              6.6             5.8

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