Fireworks ends 2013 with a bang for ABC as cricket continues to hit
ABC1’s broadcast of the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney dominated for the channel on the last day of 2013, with 1.271m viewers tuning in to see the massive pyrothecnic display at midnight, and 984,000 watching the 10.30pm family display broadcast.
The show ensured the channel grabbed a dominant 23.7 per cent share to end the year, ahead of Seven on 21.2 per cent with Ten and Nine on 12.7 per cent each with Seven News (890,000) and Nine News (823,000) the most-watched regular shows of the night at 6pm, according to the OzTam preliminary overnight report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7Z_9gPFzI
Last night saw Ten’s recovery continue with the channel grabbing second spot in audience share with 20.3 per cent, behind Seven’s 20.8 per cent, boosted again by two games in the Big Bash League cricket.
Game 12 session two was tenth overall with 697,000 and first in people 18-49, with session one taking 646,000 in 15th spot overall. The earlier match at 1.30pm was 19th for session two with 428,000 viewers, leading into the Eyewitness News at 5pm which picked up 670,000 in 12th overall.
Nine News won the night with 1.138m viewers, with Seven News second in the 6pm slot with 1.034m viewers, with Seven’s Border Security – Australia’s Front Line the highest rating non-news show with 917,000 viewers in fourth place at 7pm, an Strip the City following it at 7.30pm in sixth spot with 839,000.
Nine’s film He’s Just Not That Into You at 8.30pm topped the 18-49 demographic with RBT which was ninth overall with 721,000 viewers, fourth in the demographic, with Nine News second.
Top 15 shows:
1 NINE NEWS Nine 1,138,000
2 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,034,000
3 TODAY TONIGHT Seven 964,000
4 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R) Seven 917,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 878,000
6 STRIP THE CITY Seven 839,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV ABC1 783,000
8 JONATHAN CREEK: THE CLUE OF THE SAVANT’S THUMB-EV ABC1 765,000
9 RBT Nine 721,000
10 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 12 – SESSION 2 Ten 697,000
11 QI RPT Network ABC1 677,000 173,000 227,000 115,000 71,000 90,000
12 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Ten 670,000
13 7.30 SUMMER EDITION-EV ABC1 659,000
14 ABC NEWS UPDATE-EV ABC1 648,000
15 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 12 – SESSION 1 Ten 646,000
1.271m viewers were subjected to the most appalling, embarrassing, cringeworthy shite ever to be broadcast if it weren’t for the crackers almost everyone would have tuned out. ABC needs to take a really good look at itself
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