Newcastle TV Ratings week 41

15Oct07

The footy season is over and now TV programmers must rely on other entertainment to grab viewers. Here’s how the first week of footy-free TV went. Note: NBN includes Big Dog Goodnight in their figures, however Media Hunter doesn’t believe this counts as a program and will no longer show this in the ratings.

Most watched programs:

1    NBN Evening News Sunday NBN 95000
2    A Current Affair NBN 89000
3    The Force PRIME 89000
4    Kath & Kim PRIME 85000
5    Seven’s V8 Supercars Bathurst Round 10 PRIME 84000
6    Hot Property PRIME 81000
7    The Chasers War on Everything ABC 79000
8    NBN Evening News Monday to Friday NBN 78000
9    City Homicide PRIME 78000
10  My Name Is Earl PRIME 75000

Station ratings:

            Week 41 2007    Week 41 2006    Prog 2007    Prog 2006
NBN            28.8                33.7                    34.4            37.0
PRIME        27.6                22.0                    25.0            22.0
TEN            20.6                20.5                    18.4            19.1
ABC            17.5                17.1                    16.3            16.2
SBS            5.5                    6.7                    5.9                5.7

As you can see, Prime have gone very close to winning the week in Newcastle with help from the Bathurst figures. It will be extremely interesting to watch over the coming weeks if they can maintain the inroads they have made on the NBN. Perhaps the national trends, where Seven has won almost every week this year, is finally translating though to Newcastle.

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