News and current affairs dominate as Kerry Packer’s Australian Story more popular than The Big Bang Theory
Viewers chose news and current affairs over entertainment programs last night, as Kerry Packer’s Australian Story attracted more viewers than The Big Bang Theory on Nine.
Nine News won the biggest audience of the night with 1.268m at 6pm, with 1.186m for the second half hour, and Seven was just behind with 1.183m from 6pm and 1.085m from 6.30pm.
Viewers then turned to ABC1 which dominated the 7pm timeslot with 1.064m for ABC News, and continued to hold the biggest audiences for 7.30 and Australian Story.
That show had the second part of Kerry Packer’s life story told by the people who knew him with 1.062m people watching, more than watched The Big Bang Theory which had 1.015m on Nine.
ABC1’s 7.30 was also slightly more popular than Nine’s reliable US sitcom as it had 878,000 while Nine had 876,000 people watching from 7.30pm.
However, The Big Bang Theory gave Nine the top two programs in people 25-54, followed by Nine News.
Seven was third from 6pm to 8.30pm with Home and Away, Dog Patrol and Animal Airport. However Revenge was first at 8.30pm with 754,000 watching Seven.
Four Corners on ABC1 was second at 8.30pm as Nine had 541,000 for 2010 feature film The Tourist.
Nine had the biggest share of the audience with 20.9 per cent, Seven had 18.4 per cent, while ABC1 had a 16.8 per cent share of the audience. Ten’s audience share was 11.3 per cent.
In pay-TV Game of Thrones episode two had 158,000 subscription TV viewers on Foxtel’s Showcase channel and was second in all programs in the overnight STV ratings at 7pm. The express broadcast also had 115,000 for the earlier broadcast two hours after the US showing it, at 3pm.
Cumulative figures show the audience for Game of Thrones episode one was 315,000, up 41 per cent on the 226,000 for the opening episode for season three.
Episode one of season three had 104,000 last year for the first broadcast and 120,000 for the second, and last week it had 131,000 for the first broadcast at 3pm and 184,000 in primetime.
Monday’s top 15 shows:
- Nine News Nine 1.268m
- Nine News 6:30 Nine 1.186m
- Seven News Seven 1.183m
- Seven News / Today Tonight Seven 1.085m
- ABC News ABC1 1.064m
- Australian Story ABC1 1.062m
- The Big Bang Theory Rpt Ep2 Nine 1.015m
- ABC News ABC1 956,000
- Home and Away Seven 943,000
- A Current Affair Nine 937,000
- 7.30 ABC1 878,000
- The Big Bang Theory Rpt Nine 876,000
- Dog Patrol Seven 761,000
- Revenge Seven 754,000
Monday’s share:
- Nine 20.9%
- Seven 18.4%
- ABC1 16.8%
- TEN 11.3%
- 7TWO 4.9%
- GO! 4.5%
- 7mate 4.3%
- SBS ONE 3.9%
- ABC2 3.2%
- ONE 3.1%
- ELEVEN 2.7%
- Gem 2.6%
- ABC News 24 1.4%
- ABC3 1.2%
- SBS 2 0.6%
- NITV 0.2%
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Monday nights on ABC 1 is great. The packer episodes were really interesting, thoroughly enjoyed them.
Big Bang Theory? Give me hope, although if Abbott had his way we would all be watching tripe like that.
#savetheabc
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Agree completely with watcher above.
Monday night on the ABC is quality TV.
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I am glad that ABC1 got the ratings but what is the fascination with Kerry Packer? Am I missing something? he founded a media empire okay!!! there are other interesting people you know…..
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Yes, Watcher, and that frightfully balanced Media Watch takes some much-deserved shots at evil Murdoch and co., before we settle in to watch the equally balanced Q&A (though that Tony Jones is a worry; he let an evil Liberal speak a full sentence without interrupting last week. Tony must need a pay rise, poor fellow).
And who’d want to watch the world’s most popular sitcom, even if last night’s episode was a repeat (not mentioned in the story).
If you must watch comedy, please make it of the British variety – I hear that new show Fawlty Towers is quite a hoot – or at the very least those naughty Chaser boys.
Fancy having to apologise to that horrid Oz journalist. He should’ve been grateful they were talking about him at all. The Oz should be taken over by the ABC anyway – a privately funded newspaper has no place within our national media landscape.
Taxpayer funded media is the only way to get truth in journalism.
#privatisetheabc
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@far canal His father, Sir Frank Packer founded it. Kerry, and subsequently James inherited it. And, so far James has kept it which is better than some other media heirs managed to do. The fascination is interest in money and power and their interaction. That’s what makes him interesting, just like the other interesting people .
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Rupes wont be happy . Save the ABC.
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Its such a fascinating story and very well produced, for those who perhaps are not really into to it, you must read the book. “The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer” . And on another note ABc and SBS are doing a great job. And i like One too……
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