Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy up another 80,000 viewers
Nine’s True Story with Hamish & Andy grew its audience by more than 80,000 for the second week in a row.
The show, which two weeks ago had just 546,000 metro viewers, climbed to 744,000 overnight, winning its time slot.
True Story with Hamish & Andy won its time slot
True Story’s result was 89,000 viewers up on last week’s 655,000.
It was well ahead of Seven’s drama 800 Words and Ten’s Bull, which ran from 8pm, according to OzTAM’s overnight figures.
800 Words had a metro audience of 473,000.
In the earlier time slot, Nine’s The Block achieved its highest Tuesday audience to date – at 1.027m metro viewers. The show was the highest rating in total audience as well as across all key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
The second episode of Seven’s Take Me Out, which ran against The Block, achieved just 513,000 metro viewers. The result put the show behind Ten’s Australian Survivor, which averaged 668,000 metro viewers.
Australian Survivor placed second across the 16-39 and 18-49 demographics.
Seven News took the lead over Nine News last night, with metro audiences of 982,000 and 888,000 respectively.
ABC News achieved 752,000 metro viewers and Ten’s alternative news offering, The Project, had 509,000 viewers at 7pm.
Although Noddy Toyland Detective, which rans on ABC Kids, was the most watched multi-channel program, 7Mate’s Highway Patrol came in second, on 196,000 viewers.
But it wasn’t enough for Seven to beat Nine in main channel or overall share on Tuesday night.
Nine’s main channel share was 21.9% for the evening while Seven’s sat at 17.3%. Ten was slightly ahead of ABC on a 12.6% audience share. ABC and SBS’ shares were 11% and 5.6%. Total network share went to Nine – at 30.8% – beating Seven’s 26.8%. Network Ten had a share of 18.3% for the evening while ABC Network and SBS Network had shares of 16.1% and 8%.
One of these days Tim is going to do an op ed on how stupid these numbers are – stupid in terms if you go back 20 years the idea that the top show only got 744,000 viewers would have been absurd. And lets not forget that in those 20 years Australia’s population growth.
TV- slowly dying business.
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Yep. It sure would have been absurd 20 years ago to have the top show under 1 million.
Pretty absurd that the top show last night in metro TV was 1.027 million and you seemed to have missed that minor detail.
Sure TV is declining. There are many factors – the tsunami of online content available, the volume of streaming and online playback, DVRs and time-shifted viewing, decline in content quality on traditional TV, preference for non-linear over linear etc. etc.
But you know what? Still, no other media can provide an audience of 1 million per minute over a one hour period for just one single piece of content. The commercial value of that is increasing as fragmentation rapidly grows.
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I don’t watch it, because they are made up stories or s story we’ve all heard or been there before. I’m not sold on this show.
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