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Gruen Planet tops Wednesday ratings

The final episode of ABC1’s ad show Gruen Planet topped the Wednesday ratings with 1.175m, reversing last week’s figures by pulling ahead of Nine’s The Celebrity Apprentice.

On a decent night for the ABC, which claimed a higher channel share than Ten, the penultimate installment of music quizz series Spicks and Specks came third and The Hamster Wheel came inside the top ten.

Seven’s Sunrise was back on top at breakfast time, edging out Nine’s Today by 44,000 viewers, according to preliminary overnight metro ratings from OzTam.

Ten’s highest ranked show was Glee, which pulled in 683,000 to claim 14th spot in the ratings table.

The 2011 ratings season does not end until November 26, but Seven looks likely to win the season comfortably. The channel has ranked top in metro free-to-air viewing every week since the ratings year began on 6 February. This is the first time a TV station has shown such dominance since the ratings measurement system was introduced two decades ago.

Wednesday’s top 15 shows:

1. The Gruen Nation ABC 1.175m
2. The Celebrity Apprentice – Challenge Nine 1.119m
3. Spicks and Specks ABC 1.097m
4. Today Tonight Seven 1.031m
5. Seven News Seven 1.012m
6. The Celebrity Apprentice Nine 1.006m
7. Nine News Nine 0.995m
8. Home and Away Seven 0.979m
9. The Hamster Wheel ABC 0.920m
10. A Current Affair Nine 0.890m
11. ABC News ABC 0.855m
12. Frozen Planet Nine 0.779m
13. The One Seven 0.751m
14. Glee Ten 0.683m
15. Seven News – US President News Conference Seven 0.650m

Wednesday’s channel share:

Nine: 19.9%
Seven: 18.8%
ABC1: 16.7%
Ten: 13.1%
SBS1: 4.6%
GO!: 4.3%
7mate: 4.1%
7TWO: 3.9%
Eleven: 3.9%
Gem: 3.8%
ABC2: 3.1%
One: 1.3%
ABC News 24: 1.1%
SBS2: 0.9%
ABC3: 0.7%

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