Carols in the Domain sheds 198,000 metro viewers as Ten’s Big Bash dominates weekend
Saturday evening’s broadcast of Woolworths’ Carols in the Domain pulled in 753,000 metro viewers for channel Seven, well down on last year’s metro audience of 951,000.
The carols were outrated by an episode of New Tricks on the ABC which managed 849,000 viewers to top the night, while the Big Bash League cricket also kept it off the top of the demographics.
Game three of the Big Bash on Saturday saw 566,000 metro viewers (excluding Perth) tune in for session one, building to 748,000 for session two.
On Sunday, the Big Bash saw 483,000 metro viewers, including 60,000 in Perth, tune in for session one of game four between the Sydney Sixers and Hobart Hurricanes, building to 582,000 for session two.
I thought maybe they should have just squeezed a few more ads into the Carols, because the ads they did show kept getting interrupted by about 2 mins of singing and 1 min of Koshy riffing.
Carols this year was dreadful with Koshy hosting it. Painful to watch and many off-key musical performances. Getting almost as bad as Ten Network’s coverage of NYE in past years.
Wait…. So people weren’t interested in watching a Koshy hosted, Christmas themed Woolworths commercial for several hours?
Who’d of thought!