Rugby bombs for Ten on Saturday as 60 Minutes Ashby interview can’t top Sunday Night
Channel Ten saw its audience share plummet to 6.4 per cent on Saturday night as its coverage of the Australia v South Africa Rugby Championship match with just 270,000 metro viewers tuning in for the clash, with 165,000 tuning into the match on Fox Sports.
The channel managed just 3.8 per cent in Melbourne, and was beaten for share by several multi-channels including Go!, 7Two and 7Mate and its own One station. Ten’s share did recover slightly on Sunday rising to 9.3 per cent, with its only program in the top 15 a repeat of Modern Family which drew 392,000, according to OzTam overnight metro ratings.
The highly promoted 60 Minutes special report, which saw former political staffer James Ashby break his silence on the Peter Slipper affair, drew an audience of 1.2m metropolitan viewers last night at 8.00pm, but could not beat Seven’s Sunday Night at 8.20pm which was narrowly ahead with 1.21m for an interview with Seven chairman Kerry Stokes about how he bought the Rothschild Prayerbook.
Love the Channel Seven bias. Sunday Night and 60m were effectively a dead heat. To suggest 7 won that battle is a bit of a stretch.
Nic, you have typo’d the C7 Sunday Night figure, the difference is only 1K, not 90K.
Thanks for the correction As Above.
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Nic – Mumbrella
I’m not surprised about the poor ratings for Ten with rugby broadcast. It’s the first time I have had to watch it as I was staying at a place without Foxtel Sport package. Awful colourless commentary combined with poorly placed ads. Go back to reality shows Ten and leave sport to someone who can do it well