Kyle & Jackie O victim’s family helps A Current Affair to Tuesday ratings win
Nine’s hyped A Current Affair interview with the family of the 14-year-old who blurted out on the Kyle & Jackie O show that she had been raped may have turned out to only be with her aunt and cousin, but it still delivered ratings for the network.
The Tracy Grimshaw-conducted interview delivered an average audience of 1.4m, according to preliminary TV ratings from OzTam, making it the network’s most watched programme of the night.
Indeed, the only other bright spot of the night for Nine was Eddie McGuire’s Millionaire Hot Seat (714,000) again came close to catching Seven’s Deal Or No Deal (754,000).
There are no search results for “Tracy Grimnews”, so I’m hereby staking my claim as its inventor.
ACA/Nine were very sneaky in their promotion of this..they did not let on orginally that it was not the mother/daughter who would be interviewed…they got the ratings though. Thought it was pretty weak in showing the aunties/cousin as they can only speculate and offer their opinion. Was interesting though that the mother/daughter were on the Missing Person Unit show previously as the girl had been a runaway..etc.
Still trashy TV for Nine. TT did more stories on Vile and Tacky O
The world would be a better place if there were less Bogans in it – and that includes Grimshaw
I’ve got dibs on “Tacky Grimnews”.
Once again another example of how lying to your audience might deliver a quick bump in the ratings but does long term damage to the brand. Nine’s been shooting themselves in the foot for so long now that they have no legs left and they have begun shooting themselves in the torso…
What would happen to the sales of botox and collegen injections if Tray Tray Grimshaw was not around?
It usually takes less than 2 minutes to delete/tune off from ACA ‘editorial’ but I felt that despite the misleading promotion of it that this was one of the first times I can recall ACA actually trying to present an argument that was counter to the pop culture, tall poppy, blue rinse mob style journalism that they usually conduct.
Seems there was nothing sensationalist left in this story so they (shock horror) presented a story that may just help Kyle.
This Tracy Grimjaw interview was almost as despicable as the original awfulness on Kyle and Jackie O.
Just heard a TT promo on the radio..cosmetic surgery ruining Australian women and “Packed to the Rafters” with filth and the landlord can’t do anything about it. Hard hitting journalism!
Nice work Seven in working in the name of your high rating drama program into a story title..phht!
Get the kid on here:
http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/w.....copy.jhtml
Will someone please explain how ACA can get away with that crap and K and JO can’t
Because ACA is meant to be “serious” journalism where as Vile and Tacky O is just radio fluff…phht!
ACA and TT have never been “serious” journalism, maybe in the early days a long time ago. I think it’s now aimed at people who dont know that the ABC has better quality “current affairs” and journalism overall…or cannot find the 2 button on their remote or are too lazy to watch.