Viewers tune into morning TV for updates on Sydney siege outcome
The early-morning end to the Sydney siege saw viewers turn to breakfast TV shows for the latest information with Seven’s Sunrise from 7am to 9am watched by 634,000 metro viewers compared to 392,000 viewers on the same day last week.
Nine’s morning show Today also had an increased audience of 502,000 metro viewers, up from its audience of 254,000 last Tuesday morning.
Sunrise Live from 5am to 6am was watched by 150,000, while Sunrise early from 6am to 7am was watched by 407,000 viewers, compared to 202,000 last week, and Today Early had an audience of 385,000 compared to last week’s audience of 204,000. Sunrise extended its usual show past 9am, with the extended broadcast from 9am until midday watched by 326,000.
Seven News went for an extra half hour last night until 7.30pm, with 1.033m viewers tuning in for the first half hour and 1.003m from 6.30pm with an extra 738,000 watching the final 30 minutes.
Nine News at 6pm was watched by 1.152m, with 1.096m watching from 6.30pm. A Current Affair at 7pm was watched by 738,000 viewers.
Seven had the largest audience share yesterday with 21.9 per cent of viewers. Nine grabbed an audience share of 17.9 per cent while Ten managed a share of 14.8 per cent and the ABC settled on a share of 10.6 per cent.
In non-news programming for the night, Seven’s 8.30pm movie Love Actually was the most watched show, with 711,000 metro viewers tuning in. It out-rated Ten’s repeat of NCIS which pulled an audience of 582,000 and Nine’s repeat of The Big Bang Theory which had an audience of 467,00.
In the 7.30pm timeslot, Ten’s Jamie’s Cracking Christmas was watched by 588,000, beating Seven’s Under the Hammer which pulled an audience of 536,000. Nine’s RBT out-rated both shows with an audience of 707,000 while the ABC’s 7.30 grabbed an audience of 705,000.
Nines Kalgoorlie Cops at 8pm attracted an audience of 700,000. It out-rated Seven’s Coles-funded Guide to a Casual Christmas with Curtis Stone, a follow-up to last week’s Guide to a Classic Christmas with Curtis Stone which had an audience of 489,000, was watched by 425,000.
In time-shifted viewing, last week’s final episode of At The Movies was watched by an extra 134,000 viewers taking its total audience to 860,000.
Top 15 Shows:
1 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,152,000
2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,096,000
3 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,033,000
4 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 1,003,000
5 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 783,000
6 SEVEN NEWS SPECIAL / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 738,000
7 ABC NEWS-EV Network ABC 717,000
8 M-LOVE ACTUALLY Network 7 711,000
9 RBT Network 9 707,000
10 7.30-EV Network ABC 705,000
11 KALGOORLIE COPS Network 9 700,000
12 SUNRISE Network 7 634,000
13 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 625,000
14 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 600,000 164,000 182,000 123,000 52,000 79,000
15 JAMIE’S CRACKING CHRISTMAS Network TEN 588,000
Audience Share:
Network 7 21.9%
Network 9 17.9%
Network TEN 14.8%
Network ABC 10.6%
Network SBS ONE 5.3%
Network Gem 4.6%
Network 7TWO 4.5%
Network GO! 4.4%
Network 7mate 3.5%
Network ONE 3.5%
Network ABC2 2.7%
Network ELEVEN 2.4%
Network ABC News 24 2.0%
Network ABC3 1.1%
Network SBS 2 0.8%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share:
Network 7 TTL 29.8%
Network 9 TTL 26.9%
Network TEN TTL 20.7%
Network ABC TTL 16.4%
Network SBS TTL 6.2% 6.6%
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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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Studio 10 also aired from 6am yesterday though I doubt most people would have known about this. Any idea how it went?
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