No Grey Area for Seven
20Jul09

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).

On Saturday, Harry Potter conjured a nightly win for Nine, but that wasn’t enough to save it from humiliation for the week, which ended with these prime time audience shares: Ten 26.4 per cent, Seven 24.8, Nine 24.5, ABC 15.6, SBS 8.7. That’s not supposed to happen in a State of Origin week.

What Australia Watched:

1 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA Ten 2,193,000

2 MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA – CHALLENGE Ten 1,981,000

3 STATE OF ORIGIN RUGBY LEAGUE 3RD – MATCH Nine 1,907,000

4 PACKED TO THE RAFTERS Seven 1,794,000

5 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 1,668,000

6 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,639,000

7 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,601,000

8 SURF PATROL Seven 1,532,000

9 TALKIN’ ‘BOUT YOUR GENERATION Ten 1,492,000

10 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,488,000

11 NINE NEWS SATURDAY Nine 1,406,000

12 RECRUITS Ten 1,383,000

13 DANCING WITH THE STARS 9 Seven 1,357,000

14 GREY’S ANATOMY Seven 1,356,000

15 SEA PATROL Nine 1,346,000

Popularity: 1%

Posted under National TV Ratings, Television, Television Shows

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