Ten Jumping Ahead

29Mar09

National TV ratings week ending 28 March 2009

Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

It was a truly polymorphous push for the hearts and minds of Australia last week, instead of the usual bilateral battle in which Nine starts strongly then gets swamped by Seven. Channel Ten got a boost from the start of the aerial pingpong season in Melbourne, and the ABC revelled in Specks, Gruen and its evening news, which is now regularly ahead of Nine’s. The ABC’s share of the prime time audience — 17 per cent — was its highest for the year, as was Ten’s 23.1 per cent. Seven got 28.6, Nine got 26.1 and SBS got its usual 5.1.

From this week, the game is about to change, as Seven loses Rafters and City Homicide. But Nine can’t have too many more episodes of Underbelly to prop up its Mondays.

What Australia Watched:
1 UNDERBELLY: A TALE OF TWO CITIES Nine 2,069,000
2 PACKED TO THE RAFTERS Seven 2,033,000
3 FIND MY FAMILY Seven 1,692,000
4 BORDER SECURITY Seven 1,573,000
5 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 1,559,000
6 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,455,000
7 RSPCA ANIMAL RESCUE Seven 1,433,000
8 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,417,000
9 NCIS Ten 1,394,000
10 TRIPLE ZERO HEROES Seven 1,378,000
11 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS Seven 1,348,000
12 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,344,000
13 AUSTRALIA’S GOT TALENT Seven 1,322,000
14 CUSTOMS Nine 1,321,000
15 SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AUSTRALIA Ten 1,301,000

Popularity: 5%