Cricket and ARIAs fail to attract viewers
Live programming spelled bad news for Nine and Ten on Sunday with Australia’s cricket one day international and the ARIA music awards both failing to pull big audiences.
The evening session of the cricket averaged an audience of 720,000 for Nine, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.
The ARIAs failed to make the top 15, with an average audience of 624,000, a particularly disappointing result for Ten as the awards show inherited an audience of 1.44m from Junior Masterchef.
Seven saw an average audience of 1.248m for The X Factor and 1.406m for Bones.
Angus stone- nominated for a bloody best album aria, doesnt even bother to wear a collared shirt.
Arias are a waste of time..
That is not at all surprising. Personally I find them both as boring as each other. The Aria’s were just bizarre, not funny and looked like they’d been covered in fluro highlighters.
I was looking forward to the Arias but the production was so bad I had to turn off.
Probably the worst ARIA’s I’ve seen. There’s a difference between being candid and completely shambolic.
Is it just me, or did you find yourself barracking for the Sri Lankans?
I’m over this bunch of over-paid, over-rated, poor sport Aussie cricketers.
Say goodbye to primary channels for the ARIAS!
The cricket match was a stinker … it was a dead game anyway and the game was over 90 mins in (of an 8 hr telecast). You could argue 50 over cricket could soon be relegated to the secondary channels … leaving test and big bash for the main channels.
Seems obvious the ARIAs are not a TV event anymore. They’re a non televised event for industry types who don’t mind blowing $500 for a few warm beers and an overcooked steak. Surprised TEN went back for seconds but am certain they’ll be pissed that it rated almost 400k less on average than the 2008 event
Think this is more a reflection on the Australian public than Channel Ten
I switched over to the ARIA’s about halfway through to see a painful piece of patter between a VJ/starlet and the jolly ‘international guest star’ from Modern Family.
It involved the starlet painfully insinuating via the classic ‘floppy wrist’ motion that she had mistakenly assumed the star was gay in real life, when he wasn’t at all!!!
Hilarious!
Ten is not doing well with their “event” programming lately. First Commonwealth Games and now the ARIA’s…..
I wonder how many buyers/advertisers were willing to pay the ‘event’ load on the ARIA’s for 624,000 viewers……
The live ARIA’s were available via Apple iTunes.
It would be interesting to see these statistics, the ratio between iTunes and TV and how iTunes downloads affects the overall average TV ratings.
i’d imagine itunes had no impact Seb P … the format is the issue not the telecast delay.
Watching the abysmal ARIAs last night almost made me wish that Richard Wilkins was still alive….
Coming into the ‘prime-time’ slot, the cricket didn’t happen, because the Sri Lankans weren’t interested…..and I wish the ARIAS also didn’t happen!
Ch 10 screwed this up completely. What the bloody hell was Lara Bingle even doing there? Very disappointing… the whole thing was ridiculous. Amateur hour …
The all the live performances at the ARIA’s were epic with the set pieces, cool lighting etc, the set up was different and looked awesome they really utilised the spectacular location.
I think the flaw was in the actual presentation of the awards it was a bit messy. But hardly the worst ARIA’s ever there have been much much worse (see every year before 2008). At least they tired something innovative this year.
hilairious video montage of the bad bits
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I actually won free tickets to the ARIAs…and then decided not to go. Besides the last ever Powderfinger concert, those nominated/playing aren’t even on my ipod.
Australia might well have some good local talent, but no one wants to watch/listen to homeless looking hipster douchtards acting bored and as if their ARIA is only their due.
Channel Ten should thank their lucky stars that James Packer will be steering the ship in 2011, because the ARIA telecast was an absolute disgrace.
“I think the flaw was in the actual presentation of the awards it was a bit messy. ”
So, all fine bar the actual purpose of the event? Carry on then.
Interesting to see Ten has been very prompt enforcing its copyright by having all those embarrassing YouTube videos taken down…
@Bill
The performances are what make an Awards show interesting especially one that is focused on the best of Australian Music. My point is everyone seems to be hating on the production without giving them credit where deserved.
On top of that all awards presentations are awkward and flawed (see every award show ever created). Without the spectacle of the performances even fewer people would be bothered to watch the awards.
I think everybody is being too hard on the ARIAs.
Somewhere amongst all that awkwardness was a great show – great music, great staging/lighting, great location… kudos to Fremantle and Ten for trying something new.
The simple solution is to get rid of the hosts and the actual awards and just make the night a celebration of contemporary Aussie music. I actually thought that’s why they were handing out gongs during the week – leaving Sunday night just for the performances.
Maybe next year…
Shorter Adam Paull: that failed dismally, let’s take all the worst bits and use them for next year’s show.
And of course, that assumes there will be a show next year…
“kudos to Fremantle and Ten for trying something new.”
Adam Paull: Fremantle and Ten don’t need “kudos”, they need their bloody heads read. The ARIA’s were a complete and utter joke.
Wow what an absolute embarassment the ARIA’s were. It was akin to a primary school presentation evening. Imagine what those imported “stars” must have though- ” a bunch of backward people trying to be alternative and failing miserably” would have been my first thought. Carmen Electra?? Wow we are scraping to barrel trying to give the event some universal appeal. Whoever thought that whole thing up must have been smoking something very very strong….
It’s not that inspiring watching an empty stadium, maybe 9/Cricket Australia should rentacrowd/ give more tix away
Bill – You reckon the music was worse then the hosting? I don’t think we watched the same program.
The Aria producers mistake was not in trying something new, but overestimating both the hosting skills of their cast and personality of the eventual winners. That and rehearsing with everyone sober.
Award ceremonies are probably the hardest television program of all to pull off – they cost a bomb, involve hundreds of people and anything can and will go wrong at any moment… Add the consumption of alcohol and/or other substances by the participants and it’s a train-wreck waiting to happen.
The solution here is a simple one – hand the awards out a week earlier, play a 3 minute “acceptance speech” highlight reel to start the show, then launch straight into a 2 hour concert with only a voice-over host to stitch it all together.
What could possibly go wrong… ?
I thought the Arias had TALKABILITY in spades. Dudes, it was totally cutting edge. I so don’t know what everyone is complaining about.