Nine’s Fast4 Tennis audience crumbles as Seven wins night
Nine’s second outing of its Big Bash style tennis Fast4 Tennis saw its audience crumble, with only 399,425 metro viewers tuning in to see Rafael Nadal take on a string of opponents including Australian player Mark Philippoussis after 713,000 metro viewers tuned in on Monday night to see Roger Federer play Lleyton Hewitt.
According to preliminary overnight metro numbers from OzTam the 7.30pm timeslot, which saw Fast4 Tennis take on the Big Bash on Ten, was won by Seven’s SCU: Serious Crash Unit which drew a metro audience of 678,000 helping Seven win the night with an audience share of 18.8 per cent ahead of Nine’s share of 14.6 per cent.
The decline in the Fast4 audience helped Ten secure second place with an audience share of 16.9 per cent after 671,000 metro viewer tuned in for the first innings of the Big Bash match, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, which saw the Sydney Sixers take on the Adelaide Strikers.
Session two, which ran 20 minutes overtime and finished at 11pm, grabbed a metro audience of 631,000. It was the most watched show amongst the 16-39 and 18-49 demographics. Numbers from Ten based on OzTam timings put the audience at 699,000 for session one and 702,000 for session two and 306,000 for the post-game broadcast.
On the ABC, which settled for an audience share of 12.1 per cent, 7.30 Summer was watched by 667,000, a repeat of QI at 8pm grabbed an audience of 604,000 and Human Universe with Brian Cox at 8.30pm was watched by 580,000.
Meanwhile on Seven, Border Security – Australia’s Front Line at 7pm was watched by 729,000 beaten by Nine’s A Current Affair which drew an audience of 749,000.
Criminal Minds on Seven at 8.30pm was watched by 655,000.
In news, Nine won the night with a 6pm audience of 1.077m and a 6.30pm audience of 1.003 while Seven settled for an audience of 905,000 at 6pm with 822,000 tuning in for the second half hour of the news, or Today Tonight, at 6.30pm.
On the secondary channels, 7TWO won with an audience share of 5.4 per cent as 200,000 tuned in for the APIA International tennis.
In the Asian Cup, 72,000 metro viewers watched the game between China and Uzbekistan on Fox Sports.
Top 15 Shows:
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,077,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,003,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 905,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 882,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 749,000
6 BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE (R) Network 7 729,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 707,000
8 SCU: SERIOUS CRASH UNIT Network 7 678,000
9 ABC NEWS UPDATE-EV Network ABC 677,000
10 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 27 – SESSION 1 Network TEN 671,000
11 7.30 SUMMER-EV Network ABC 667,000
12 CRIMINAL MINDS-WED (R) Network 7 655,000
13 CRICKET: T20 BIG BASH LEAGUE GAME 27 – SESSION 2 Network TEN 631,000
14 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 606,000
15 QI RPT Network ABC 604,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 18.8%
Network TEN 16.9%
Network 9 14.6%
Network ABC 12.1%
Network 7TWO 5.4%
Network ONE 5.0%
Network GO! 4.4%
Network SBS ONE 4.4%
Network Gem 4.0%
Network ELEVEN 3.9%
Network 7mate 3.8%
Network ABC2 2.6%
Network SBS 2 1.5%
Network ABC News 24 1.4%
Network ABC3 1.1%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 27.9%
Network TEN TTL 25.9%
Network 9 TTL 23.0%
Network ABC TTL 17.1%
Network SBS TTL 6.1%
Ratings data is copyright OzTAM and may not be reproduced, published or communicated without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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I hope they persist with the Fast4 format. It’s pretty entertaining. They should, however, take a leaf out of the cricket book and mic up the players. That would be great.
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SCU wins the night? Are viewers ghoulish or something?
That said, I do like a good aircrash investigation. But at least that generally results in airlines and aircraft makers learning stuff which prevents crashes in future.
Given the lack of ability of so many drivers, the best way to reduce crashes would be to ban cars. Or blame their victims…
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I’m surprised as many as did watched the second half of the big bash. Started late, interminable talking heads instead of getting on with the action and then ran late even though the result was never in doubt. Really, 10, no-one cares about Fitzy and wots-is-name chattering away while the match was on, nor do they really care for all that excessive banter in the commentary box. Just show some bloody cricket – at the right time. Shove the project onto a secondary channel if you need to show it at all, cut that over-the-top intro down to about 10 seconds (no, make it 5) and get on with the game. It’s not rocket science.
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