Charlie Sheen and current affairs help Nine win Monday
Nine has scored a rare Monday ratings win with two repeat episodes of Two and a Half Men and its one hour news and current affairs bulletin contributing to its success.
Last night was the first Monday win for Nine since the return of Seven’s City Homicide on August 10.
The 8:30 crime show had its worst audience for this, its third season with just under 1.3 million viewers, according to preliminary OzTam ratings.
But it did manage to win its timeslot again beating Nine’s Farmer Wants a Wife and Ten’s Good News Week on what was an average night for viewer numbers.
Last nights Nine News in Sydney (not sure about other cities) featured a YouTube clip about a woman bursting into laughter during her wedding vows.
That’s it – nothing more. That was the story.
It seems Nine these days are relying more and more on the work experience kiddie pulling clips off YouTube. If the trend continues, Shelley Craft will be reading the news by the end of the year…
It’s a good point Adam.
YouTube is proving to be a rich hunting ground. Rove’s Pete Space segment on ten might as well be renamed “What’s on the Failblog YouTube channel this week”
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Adam – you just summed up the contempt I feel nightly for the quality of News programs in Australia, across all channels. Gold.
Ripping stuff off youtube/vimeo/break isn’t a new efficient approach to programming.
Ten did a whole show 2 or 3 years ago with mike whathisname and fitzy and that girl from big brother (bree i think) which was just “funny” videos from youtube end to end for an hour.
I think it was called ‘Friday Night Football in Groin’ or something similar.
Anyway – before we get too smug … how much content on youtube etc is ripped from broadcast TV. A lot. an awful lot.
@ Ben – But at least Ten didn’t call it “news”.
It’s funny how television networks bitch about The Internet ruining their business but they’re more than happy to help themselves to clips to pad out their lean programming schedules.
It’s also “funny” how the idea of “broadcast quality” has been thrown out the window. The number of news stories with ridiculous compression pixelation/reversed field orders is staggering. Do networks even employ television engineers any more?
Our televisions are getting better and better but the quality of the images we watch on them is steadily getting worse and worse.
Okay, rant over…
I saw the nine way nine delivered the laughing bride on the Qantas PM news service and i never got the impression they were passing it off as ‘news’ though … It was no more news than a cat stuck in a tree or a weird meetup for red heads … it was just a light way to end the bulletin … like they’ve been doing forever.
Agree with you around broadcast quality … have noticed it a lot on sports bulletins … running compressed divx/avi’s on broadcast.
I guess I’m from the old school that thinks stories shown in a news bulletin should be news…
BTW, In Sydney, that laughing bride story ran towards the middle of the bulletin, not in the traditional “cat up a tree” segment at the end. I don’t even think Nine has a fluffy ending to the news any more – it’s been moved to the second ad break.
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