Eastern seaboard storms sees news audiences surge
The storms lashing the eastern seaboard have lead a surge in TV audiences for last night’s news bulletin, with Nine recording 528,000 just in Sydney as viewers tuned in to see the damage.
JUST IN: Rough swell is pounding South Cronulla beach, waves have completely washed out a restaurant. #9Newshttps://t.co/jFUXADJ83W
— Nine News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) June 5, 2016
Nine News recorded its most watched bulletin of the year with 1.418m narrowly beating Seven News which had 1.415m viewers.
The result came on a Sunday night when Nine’s The Voice at 7:30pm was the most watched program of the night beating House Rules on Seven which had 1.207m, and Masterchef whose audience lifted more than 100,000 viewers from last week pulling 919,000.
A Michael Parkinson special on Ten after Mastchef drew 432,000 metro viewers on Ten at 9:00pm.
In the demos Ten’s Masterchef was the most watched program in the 16-39s while The Voice dominated the older demos.
Meanwhile the debut of Foxtel’s much-hyped new political drama Secret City failed to make the top 20 pay-TV programs.
In main channel audience share Nine and Seven tied at 22.2% each while Ten reached 12.9% and the ABC 11.3%.
Imagine the numbers if all those who didn’t have power last night (like us!) had been able to tune in . . . we were in bed just after 8 – shows you how much we have come to depend on power! Our power has just come back on after almost 24 hours.
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