Nine’s Sunday edition of A Current Affair falls back
Nine’s new Sunday edition of A Current Affair remains an open question after its third outing lost nearly 400,000 viewers on last week’s.
A week ago the show, hosted by Today’s Karl Stefanovic, rated 1.237m viewers on the back of an interview with one of the protagonists in the schoolyard fight video which became one of the stories of the week. It was the fourth biggest show of the night.
The previous week – the first Sunday edition of A Current Affair – had rated 875,000, 14th for the night, according to metro ratings from OzTam.
And last night A Current Affair’s Sunday edition delivered was back to around that level, delivering 881,000 viewers, 12th for the night.
Seven’s Sunday Night, which didn’t air in Perth because of AFL, beat A Current Affair in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. A Current Affair won in Melbourne.
Nine had signalled that it intended to experiment with a Sunday edition of A Current Affair, which already airs Monday to Friday. Nine’s head of news Mark Calvert yesterday told The Sunday Telegraph: “We’re looking at it week to week, but it is clear there’s an audience maybe we have stumbled onto something.”
Meanwhile, Ten’s coverage of Melbourne’s Formula One grand prix averaged 687,000, 17th for Sunday.
Sunday’s most watched shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.341m
- The Force Seven 1.284m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.242m
- Nine News Nine 1.190m
- Midsomer Murders ABC 1.143m
- Border Security Seven 1.138m
- Modern Family Ten 1.086m
- Bondi Rescue Ten 1.060m
- The Biggest Loser Ten 1.019m
- ABC News ABC 0.946m
- The Mentalist Nine 0.909m
- A Current Affair – Sunday Nine 0.881m
- Sunday Night – (not broadcast in Perth) Seven 0.854m
- Bones Seven 0.831m
- Customs Nine 0.819m
Sunday’s share:
- Seven: 21.5%
- Nine: 19.9%
- Ten: 17.0%
- ABC1: 14.2%
- GO!: 4.6%
- SBS1: 4.2%
- 7TWO 3.7%
- 7mate: 3.3%
- Eleven: 3.3%
- Gem: 3.0%
- ABC2: 2.0%
- One: 1.8%
- ABC News 24: 0.8%
- SBS2: 0.6%
- ABC3: 0.3%
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