News dominates Friday night ratings as viewers drift off on a quiet TV evening
The lack of sport on free-to-air TV was reflected in Friday’s OzTAM preliminary overnight ratings which saw news programs and Seven’s evergreen Better Homes and Gardens easily win the night.
Across the five-city metro market, Seven News was the top rating show with 869,000 viewers with Nine’s news attracting an audience of 749,000. Better Homes and Gardens drew 599,000 metro viewers while the night’s best drama was the ABC’s repeat of Death in Paradise which saw 410,000 tune in.
So quiet was the evening’s TV, Seven’s afternoon reality show, The Chase Australia and Ten’s morning lifestyle panel program The Living Room both managed to crack the top twenty shows with 525,000 and 408,000 viewers respectively.
The Living Room was also Ten’s most watched show, beating out the news which attracted 348,000 and The Project that saw 335,000 viewers.
In the demographics, Nine News at 6.30 was the most watched show by the 18-49 group with 167,000 viewers, beating out Better Homes and Gardens’ 164,000. Among 25-54 group, Seven’s 6.30 line up of News and Today Tonight had 220,000 tune in, picking up from the 218,000 who tuned into the 6pm news. Better Homes and Garden’s attracted 207,000 viewers.
Due to problems in receiving OzTam’s figures, the 16-39 demographic was not available along with network and station share figures.
Interesting choice of photo to accompany this story. Did Seven repeat an old Jennifer Keyte bulletin and still win the News ratings? Or has Jen quit 10 to go back to.Seven, confused.
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Hi MHS, it’s a file photo from our archives. Apologies for the confusion.