Seven News is Wednesday’s only million-plus show

Home & Away: Wednesday’s most watched non-news show

Seven News, which parted ways with legendary news man Peter Meakin this week, was the only show to be watched by more than a million people last night.

The show pulled in 1.068m viewers, followed by Nine News, which drew an audience of 998,000, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTAM.

Seven’s Home & Away was the top rating non-news show, with 996,000 – helping the network to a comfortable win, with 22.3% share.

Home & Away won the key advertising demographics of 18-49 and 16-39, but Nine’s The Big Bang Theory was the most popular show in the 25-54 demo.

Ten’s top show was Ten News At Five, which rated with 638,000.

Wednesday’s top 15 shows:

1. Seven News Seven 1.068
2. Nine News Nine 0.998
3. Home and Away Seven 0.996
4. Today Tonight Seven 0.978
5. ABC News ABC 0.967
6. The Big Bang Theory Nine 0.855
7. A Current Affair Nine 0.851
8. QI ABC 0.792
9. 7:30 ABC 0.740
10. Hot Property Nine 0.679
11. Grimm – Episode 1 Seven 0.671
12. Big Fat Gypsy Weddings Nine 0.671
13. Ten News Ten 0.638
14. The Big Bang Theory – 7:00pm Nine 0.622
15. Modern Family Ten 0.592

Wednesday’s channel share:

1. Seven: 22.3%
2. Nine: 18.8%
3. ABC1: 12.7%
4. Ten: 12.0%
5. 7mate: 5.1%
6. Gem: 4.8%
7. SBS1: 4.5%
8. 7TWO: 4.4%
9. GO!: 4.1%
10. Eleven: 3.8%
11. ABC2: 2.3%
12. One: 2.2%
13. ABC3: 1.0%
14. ABC News 24: 1.1%
15. SBS2: 0.9%

Robin Hicks

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Comments: 3

Rob 29 Nov 12

Brace for impact, expect another couple of 100,000 viewers not to return to main channels from summer holidays (non-ratings) again in Feb…. You would have thought one of the networks would have been bold enough to try something different this summer… Maybe I’ve missed something but it appears to be the same old same old coming from Triceratops, Stegosaurus and T-Rex…

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Christine 29 Nov 12

Rob-very funny. you are right. they do the same things over and over and expect different results.Ten is gone for all money next year. Masterchef going up against MKR is a disaster. They might as well not air it at all.

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Billy C 29 Nov 12

I’m wondering if Problems will end up as low as Outland did by the end of it’s run.
Outland finished at 164,000. Problems is now at 325,000. I think under 200,000 by the end.
I don’t mind the ABC spending money on quirky niche stuff that I find lazy but I just wish they’d stick it on ABC2.

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