News dominates Tuesday, Big Brother best of the rest
A quiet Tuesday night was dominated by news programming, which took out the top six programs in OzTAM’s overnight ratings. Seven News was the top-rating program taking 983,000 metro viewers.
The best performing non-news program was Seven’s Big Brother, which brought in 583,000 metro viewers for the network.
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Big Brother also won the three key advertising demographics.
Despite having the highest performing programs in both news and entertainment, Seven lost the night to Nine, which took a network share of 29.5%.
Seven meanwhile had 27.6%, ahead of Ten with 19.3% and ABC with 16.6%.
Making up the top five programs of the night were Seven News at 6.30 (946,000 metro viewers) Nine News (914,000 metro viewers) Nine News 6:30 (875,000 metro viewers) and A Current Affair (733,000 metro viewers).
In primetime, up against Big Brother was MasterChef on Ten with 561,000 metro viewers, while Nine’s offering of Queen-inspired movie Bohemian Rhapsody aired to 517,000 metro viewers at 7:30pm.
The #1 multi-channel on Tuesday was a 7Mate, which had a 3.6% single-channel share.
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Zanda Wilson was a reporter and podcast producer at Mumbrella, specialising in radio reporting. He left Mumbrella in September 2021.
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