Football fever sees The Footy Show draw 979,000, while Amazing Race finale draws just 416,000
The Footy Show performed very strongly in certain states last night drawing a metro audience of 979,000 two days before the AFL grand final, while the finale Seven’s of the Amazing Race drew a lacklustre 416,000 viewers in response.
The AFL version of the program, which was screened at 8.40pm in the code’s heartland cities, drew 535,000 viewers in Melbourne, 110,000 in Adelaide and 97,000 in Perth. Sydney and Brisbane had 159,000 and 77,000 viewers respectively at 9.40pm, with the NRL grand final still a week away.
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With fans tuning in for football audiences were well down for Nine’s reality series Big Brother with only 310,000 viewers watching the program in Sydney and Brisbane where it screened in the 8.40pm slot, while in the other states the show was screened on multi-channel Go! where it drew less than 100,000 viewers with 57,000 people in Melbourne, 20,000 in Adelaide and 18,000 in Perth.
Over on Seven a new episode Dynamo: Magician Impossible at 8.30pm drew 603,000 viewers, down from the last time the network screened a new episode of the show, in September 2013, where it drew 938,000 viewers.
The final episode of The Amazing Race was the program’s worst result of the season with 416,000 well down on its debut of 588,000 viewers and also last week’s result of 445,000.
On Ten, The Bachelor drew 768,000 viewers for an episode where The Bachelor met the parents of his potential partner, a result well up on the Wednesday episode which saw eliminated Bachelorettes recapping their experiences.
SBS’s NITV was also the beneficiary of the football fever posting a rare high with a 0.5 per cent audience, well above its usual 0.0 to 0.1 per cent audience share, on the back of The Marngook Footy Show which had an audience of 58,000.
In news Nine beat Seven with 1.096m viewers in the 6pm slot compared with 973,000 viewers. The gap narrowed in the 6.30pm slot with Nine recording 979,000 viewers and Seven having 922,000 viewers.
On the back of the Footy Show, Nine News and also The Block: Glasshouse, which was the top program of the night with some 1.134m viewers, Nine won the night with an audience share of 27.9 per cent on its main channel.
Seven had a 16.2 per cent audience share on its main channel while Ten posted their best result of the week with 14.2 per cent.
Nic Christensen
Top 15 Shows
1 THE BLOCK GLASSHOUSE Network 9 1,134,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,096,000
3 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,005,000
4 THE FOOTY SHOW Network 9 979,000
5 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 973,000
6 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 922,000
7 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 907,000
8 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 829,000
9 THE BACHELOR AUSTRALIA THURS Network TEN 768,000
10 ABC NEWS Network ABC1 724,000
11 7.30 Network ABC1 648,000
12 CATALYST Network ABC1 646,000
13 THE PROJECT 7PM Network TEN 642,000
14 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS Network TEN 610,000
15 DYNAMO: MAGICIAN IMPOSSIBLE Network 7 603,000
Audience share
Network 9 27.9%
Network 7 16.2%
Network TEN 14.2%
Network ABC1 11.8%
Network 7TWO 5.2%
Network 7mate 4.3%
Network SBS ONE 3.4%
Network Gem 3.0%
Network ABC2 2.9%
Network GO! 2.8%
Network ELEVEN 2.7%
Network ONE 2.2%
Network ABC News 24 1.4%
Network SBS 2 1.0%
Network ABC3 0.6%
Network NITV 0.5%
Total audience share
Network 9 TTL 33.7%
Network 7 TTL 25.6%
Network TEN TTL 19.1%
Network ABC TTL 16.7%
Network SBS TTL 4.8%
Data OzTAM Pty Limited 2013. The Data may not be reproduced, published or communicated (electronically or in hard copy) in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of OzTAM.
