The Silly Season National TV Ratings

8Dec08

Source: David Dale, Sun Herald blogs

If you suspected Australians were abandoning mainstream TV in the silly season, you were right. This report comes from the Pay TV people: “In week 49, STV was the number one source of TV across Australia, when subscription channels accounted for 25.6% of metropolitan viewing between 6am and midnight (up from 23.1% last week), 21.8% of regional viewing (up from 19.9%) and 61.3% of all viewing in subscription TV homes (up from 57.5%).

“America’s Next Top Model on FOX8 drew 160,000 people and Project Runway on Arena was watched by 121,000 viewers. The premiere of Gus Worland’s An Aussie Goes Calypso on FOX8 was seen by 108,000 while Keeping Up Appearances had its biggest audience of the year on UKTV, with 104,000 people. In sport, Live: Football: A-League Perth v Melb was seen by 87,000 subscribers on FOX Sports.”

What Australia watched, week ending December 6
1 NINE NEWS SUNDAY Nine 1,376,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,309,000
3 NCIS EP 1 RPT Ten 1,298,000
4 SEVEN NEWS – SUN Seven 1,234,000
5 NCIS EP 2 RPT Ten 1,206,000
6 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 1,201,000
7 SEVEN NEWS – SAT Seven 1,158,000
8 TWO AND A HALF MEN -RPT Nine 1,151,000
9 SEVEN WONDERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD Seven 1,127,000
10 THE HOWARD YEARS ABC1 1,079,000
11 THE RICH LIST – MON Seven 1,075,000
12 HOT PROPERTY Seven 1,039,000
13 CSI -RPT Nine 1,025,000
14 COLD CASE Nine 1,018,000
15 NINE NEWS SATURDAY Nine 1,017,000

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