Seven’s Tennis drops to 679,000 as temperatures rise at Australian Open
Soaring temperatures suspended play in the Australian Open yesterday as Seven’s audience fell to 679,000 for day four of the tournament, preliminary overnight metro ratings show.
Play went on into the early hours of Friday morning as Aussie hope Nick Kyrgios put up a tough fight against Frenchman Benoit Pair before losing in five sets, and Great Britain’s Andy Murray defeated Vincent Millot in three, sealing victory just before midnight.
The later part of the tennis averaged 629,000 metro viewers, not including Perth, where the tennis was on 7Two from 6pm to 9.30pm. The tennis averaged 295,000 viewers across the five cities on 7Two.
Although the early portion of the tennis was the most popular non-news program of the night, its audience was smaller than ABC News for the first time this week.
Seven News was the top program of the night with more than 1.2m viewers, while Nine News had 1.125m.
However Nine had the largest audiences from 6.30pm to 7.30pm as the second half hour of Nine News averaged 1.101m while Today Tonight had 973,00, and A Current Affair held 990,000 as the tennis commenced on Seven. ABC News was second in the 7pm timeslot with 737,000 metro viewers.
After the tennis Nine’s new episodes of Getaway pulled in 643,000 people in the five capital cities to watch Jamie Durie join a cruise through five European countries from Budapest to Amsterdam.
Then Ten’s T20 Big Bash League had the largest audience until 11pm as it had 639,000 viewers for the first session and 674,000 for the second part of the Perth Scorchers and Adelaide Strikers match.
A new episode of Nine’s US import Person of Interest was third in its timeslot with 590,000 at 8.30pm, and the show was also the most time-shifted show last week according to consolidated ratings. OzTam found there was an increase of 88,000 viewers on last week’s episode of Person of Interest bringing its total audience to 585,000 for last Thursday.
Seven won the night with a 23.3 per cent audience share, and Nine had 19.1 per cent as Ten’s audience share stood at just over 13 per cent.
Thursday’s top 15 shows:
- Seven News Seven 1.215m
- Nine News Nine 1.125m
- Nine News 6.30 Nine 1.101m
- A Current Affair Nine 990,000
- Today Tonight Seven 973,000
- ABC News ABC1 737,000
- Seven’s Tennis: 2014 Australian Open Night 4 Seven 679,000
- Cricket: T20 Big Bash League Game 25 – Session 2 Ten 674,000
- Hot Seat Nine 667,000
- Getaway Nine 643,000
- Cricket: T20 Big Bash League Game 25 – Session 1 Ten 639,000
- Seven’s Tennis: 2014 Australian Open Night 4 – Seven 629,000
- QI Rpt ABC1 606,000
- Ten Eyewitness News Ten 601,000
- Person of Interest Nine 590,000
Thursday’s share:
- Seven 23.2%
- Nine 19.1%
- Ten 13.6%
- ABC1 9.5%
- GO! 5.2%
- 7TWO 5.2%
- SBS ONE 4.7%
- 7mate 4.2%
- Eleven 4.0%
- ABC2 2.9%
- Gem 2.6%
- One 2.5%
- ABC3 1.2%
- ABC News 24 1.2%
- SBS 2 0.9%
- NITV 0.1%
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