Dominant Australian display in The Ashes helps Nine to winning weekend
The Ashes second test and a lineup followed by Nine News, Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly and 60 Minutes helped Channel Nine dominate the top five programs and audience share last night, according to OzTam.
Saturday’s viewing was also dominated by the cricket with the Australian team looking to press home their advantage against England, drawing in 1.369m for the evening session and 1.231m for the afternoon, bettered only by Nine News on 1.384m.
Yesterday the third session of the Ashes test won more than 1.5m viewers, while Seven News was second in the 6.30pm timeslot with an audience of 1.07m and David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities averaged 377,000 metro viewers for Ten, preliminary overnight ratings show.
Channel Nine won across all timeslots as following The Ashes Nine News drew 1.6m metro viewers for a half hour bulletin from 6.30pm and Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly had over 1.2m viewers at 7pm.
Seven’s Coastwatch was third in the 7pm timeslot with just over 700,000 total viewers, followed by ABC News and Have you Been Paying Attention, Ten’s comedy current affairs quiz show, which averaged 376,000 across the five cities.
Nine also dominated the 8pm timeslot with 60 Minutes winning over 1.2m metro viewers, as Seven’s nature show Wild Planet: North America averaged 605,000 and Kung Fu Panda 2 on Ten had 557,000. The animation feature film on Ten was the network’s best performer, ranking 17th in all programs and ninth in people 25-54.
A new episode of The Mentalist on Nine also won its timelsot at 9.10 ahead of Seven’s Bones and Castle and a new episode of The Graham Norton Show, which averaged 298,000 for Ten.
Nine had 25 per cent of the total audience share as well as the top programs in people 25-54 with Nine News, The Ashes, Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly and The Cricket Show making the top programs in the key demographic.
Sunday’s top 15 shows:
- Nine News Sunday Nine 1.612m
- The Ashes: Second Test – Australia v England Session Three Nine 1.519m
- Christmas with the Australian Women’s Weekly Nine 1.234m
- 60 Minutes Nine 1.205m
- The Ashes: Second Test – Australia v England Session Two Nine 1.104m
- Seven News Sunday Seven 1.074m
- The Ashes: Second Test – Australia v England Session One Nine 1.060m
- The Cricket Show Nine 893,000
- ABC News ABC1 845,000
- Border Security Australia’s Front Line Seven 833,000
- The Mentalist Nine 772,000
- Coastwatch Seven 703,000
- Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple ABC1 660,000
- Wild Planet: North America Seven 605,000
- ABC News Update ABC1 604,000
Sunday’s share:
- Nine 25.0%
- Seven 19.0%
- ABC1 12.9%
- TEN 10.6%
- SBS ONE 5.7%
- 7mate 4.3%
- 7TWO 4.1%
- ONE 3.6%
- GO! 3.2%
- ABC2 3.1%
- Gem 2.8%
- ELEVEN 2.2%
- SBS 2 1.6%
- ABC News 24 1.0%
- ABC3 0.6%
- NITV 0.4%
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